Procurement Category Manager – Corporate

Overview

In this role you will lead procurement across multiple categories, driving value, quality and compliance within the NHS Trust. You will project-manage tenders, draft specifications, and analyse markets to support contract awards, while engaging clinicians and managers throughout. You’ll manage the category team and ensure procurement regulations are followed, contributing to the Cost Improvement Plan and continuous service improvement. This is a customer-focused, innovation-driven opportunity to shape procurement delivery in a large NHS trust.

Pay / Benefits

• NHS Pension Scheme
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Comprehensive health and wellbeing support
• NHS Car Lease schemes
• Salary sacrifice schemes
• Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping and finance

Responsibilities

• Project-manage tenders to deliver high-quality, timely responses with stakeholder involvement
• Draft tender specifications and conduct market analysis to inform contracts
• Engage clinicians and managers across demand planning, strategy development, evaluation, and contract management
• Lead reporting and analysis across multiple specialties and projects
• Oversee day-to-day management of the category team and ensure compliance with procurement legislation and DBTHFT policies
• Support the annual Cost Improvement Plan delivery
• Utilize Atamis e-tendering tools to support procurements and become an expert in the field
• Draft correspondence and papers and manage task delivery across projects

Key requirements

• Procurement/category management experience in a large organisation
• Leadership and managerial experience
• Experience of high-value procurements from conception to evaluation and implementation
• Ability to manage a category team within procurement regulations
• Strong evidence of pursuing MCIPs or equivalent qualification
• Ability to motivate and develop staff and to plan and organise multiple procurement projects
• Excellent knowledge of public sector procurement, market and economic analysis and complex evaluations
• Ability to work to deadlines and develop long-term programmes for the category team

• Strong leadership and people-management capabilities
• Strategic thinking and initiative
• Stakeholder engagement and communication
• Atamis e-tendering
• Public sector procurement regulations
• Market and economic analysis

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