Senior Category Manager, Education, Health & Care

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Job Description

Fixed Term Contract until 17th January 2026 | £47,320 to £51,304 per annum (Scale L) | 37 hours per week | County Hall

Norfolk County Council is the main local authority for Norfolk providing services to more than 900,000 of Norfolk's residents. We purchase all kinds of things from suppliers across the country: from social care to streetlighting, from fire engines to library books.

As a county council we provide high quality services involving the people who use the services to shape and comment on them by promoting efficiency and innovation. Partnerships between the County Council and local business, voluntary organisations and other local authorities work to provide Norfolk residents excellent services.

The team has a specific focus on supporting contract management for health and social care contracts. While departmental commissioners do much of the day to day contract management, this role supports with implementing formal contractual mechanisms when issues have not been resolved via informal methods, and drafting formal documentation to support contract variation and extension.

The role:

We are looking for a skilled and experienced contract management professional to join our Health and Social Care contracting team to provide maternity cover from December 2024 to January 2026. The successful candidate will be working with contract managers from the Adult Social Care department, supporting with contract management and taking a lead when issues are escalated.

The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications and experience:

• Experience in public procurement, with a focus on adult social care contracting.
• Experience in managing contracts, in particular dealing with issues as they are escalated from the main contract manager.
• Experience in analysing supplier financial information.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to build and maintain relationships with suppliers and stakeholders.
• A relevant professional qualification in procurement, contract management, or a related field.

We would like the successful candidate to start from 2nd December 2024 (or as close as possible to that date)

For an informal discussion please contact Emma Foreman on 01603 223921.

We want our people to be inspired and motivated to work well together, make the most of our workspaces, enjoy a healthy work-life balance, and deliver excellent services to Norfolk and its people. Flexibility is built into the way we work, with hybrid working a key feature for many roles. Our technology platform and equipment are first class, enabling you to connect and collaborate remotely. We ask that you have in place good Broadband connectivity.

Already a Norfolk County Council employee? See and apply for all internal and external vacancies via myOracle using your @norfolk.gov.uk or @nccal.ac.uk email address.

Before you apply please see the full job description and person specification in the below link - this will help you to shape your application to demonstrate how you meet the criteria for the role.

Job description and person specification

You can also find out about the rewards and benefits we offer as well as our other terms and conditions.

These are some benefits you can enjoy by working for Norfolk County Council:

• Competitive salary
• Generous holiday entitlement with the ability to buy and sell leave
• Health and Wellbeing services including fast-track physiotherapy and a free counselling service
• Flexible working opportunities including flexi-time, part time, remote and hybrid working - dependent on your job role and business need.
• Financial benefits such as:
  • 'Norfolk Rewards' our employee discounts programme which helps you save money on almost anything, from everyday groceries and clothes, to holidays, new technology, gym membership, trips to the cinema and days out.
  • A Blue Light card for Fire Service and Social Care Workers
  • Relocation expenses (where applicable)
  • An advance of your expenses if you travel for work
  • Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution, life assurance, death in service payments and dependants' pensions
  • Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension and new bikes
  • Access to our tax efficient car lease scheme for greener travel enabling you to lease a brand new, ultra-low emission vehicle (subject to eligibility)
  • A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job

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