Category Manager Visa Sponsorship Uk

Job Description

Job Summary

We’re looking for a hardworking Category Manager to join our award-winning team at Regent Court in Edgbaston, Birmingham.

The role’s goal is to identify, design, and deliver credible savings/work programmes while also engaging stakeholders in corporate departments. While ensuring that all procurement activity complies with public procurement legislation and the Trust’s standing financial instructions.

You must have contract management experience and be comfortable influencing and dealing with vendors and internal stakeholders. Your ability to create value for money and provide solutions is critical to this role. You will establish, cultivate, and maintain professional relationships with department heads, operational leads, and senior finance managers, as well as provide frequent project status reports.

You will be part of a team that spans different business categories, working collaboratively to take initiative and exchange knowledge that will feed into the ICB/Trust/Department strategy.

Main responsibilities, tasks, and abilities required

General

• Manage corporate procurement for all Trusts with the BSOL PC, especially within the Estates category, although help across other areas such as professional services, facilities management, IT, and capital works may also be necessary.
• Identify projects and design work plans and cost improvement programmes on an annual basis with regular reviews and updates throughout the year to fulfil the agreed-upon objectives and targets.
• Lead and manage complicated procurement/tender exercises, including the development of tender and contract paperwork.
• Provide specialised procurement knowledge over a wide range of sectors covered by the BSOL PC.
• Conduct market research to gain a thorough understanding of all key commodities and supply markets.
• Manage the introduction of alternative products and sources of supply to reach high levels of rationalisation and/or standardisation, be a key influencer, and participate in user consultation groups.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Engage, create, and maintain strong relationships with departments and key stakeholders to maximise performance and efficiencies throughout the Trust(s)/ICB.
• Develop a constructive working relationship between the BSOL PC and its suppliers to ensure performance criteria are continuously met, monitored, and managed successfully.
• Negotiate with suppliers and stakeholders to obtain the best value for money.

Please review the attached entire JD./PS.

About us.

We are acknowledged as one of the UK’s leading NHS Foundation Trusts. Our aim is to Build Healthier Lives, and we understand that we will require exceptional employees to achieve this.

Our dedication to our employees is to offer the ideal environment for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and well-being of our employees, including a commitment to provide flexible working arrangements when possible;
We provide our employees with a wide range of training and development options to help them achieve their personal and professional goals.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our employees are treated fairly and feel like they belong by providing a friendly and inclusive atmosphere. This is about equal opportunity; eradicating all barriers, including prejudice, and ensuring that each individual member of staff reaches their full potential, achieves their goals, and thrives in their jobs. This isn’t just words. We’re taking action. Our dedication to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation, where every voice is heard, and is pushed by our varied and active staff networks, as well as the Fairness Taskforce, which is managed by our CEO. We foster a culture that encourages employees to oppose discriminatory behaviour and allows people to contribute their “full self” to a kinder, more connected, and bolder place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a smoke-free hospital.

Job Description

*Please Note: For a complete job description for this position, please check the attached Job Description*

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Good general education standards.
• Degree level or similar experience

Desirable

• Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply Level 4 qualification (or higher). Graduate Diploma or working towards

Experience

Essential

• Experience working in a procurement team.
• Experience with Corporate Service Procurement for Estates
• Successful project management experience with the ability to deliver projects on time.
• Experience in contract, stakeholder, and supplier management
• Experience dealing with a variety of stakeholder groups.
• Experience in negotiating complex contracts
• Solid understanding of contract management
• Understanding of best practices in procurement and supply

Desirable

• Experience with Public Sector or NHS procurement
• Knowledge of the application of UK procurement rules, tendering processes, and procedures
• Experience with online tendering platforms, such as Atamis
• Delivering challenging savings targets through procurement activities.

Additional Criteria:

Essential

• Communication and Relationship Skills:
• Strong interpersonal skills and the capacity to interact with people/stakeholders at any level.
• Capable of identifying and managing difficulties as they arise, and demonstrating problem-solving skills.
• Excellent negotiation and financial adjudication skills for managing complex, high-value projects.
• Analytical and judgement skills:
• Excellent negotiation and financial skills for managing complex, high-value contracts.
• Ability to solve complicated issues in an inventive manner
• Ability to analyse difficult material and/or convey it in a comprehensible format.
• Excellent presentation abilities with the capacity to transmit important and difficult information to a multidisciplinary group.
• Planning and Organisational Skills:
• Ability to operate independently or with minimal supervision.
• Project management and leadership qualities, with the capacity to operate independently and under pressure.
• People Management, Leadership, and Resources:
• Able to communicate, lead, develop, and manage workers.
• Ability to lead teams and facilitate meetings.
• Capability to persuade senior members of staff and achieve credibility in a clinical and management setting
• Team player who can contribute efficiently.
• IT Skills:
• Strong understanding of Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
• High degree of personal professionalism
• Evidence of Commitment to Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
• Confident in presenting or representing procurement in senior meetings.
• Proactive, can-do attitude
• Committed to providing positive outcomes.
• Enthusiastic
•  Self-motivated
• Team player
• Excellent communication abilities.
• Flexible approach to working hours and locations

Desirable

• Innovative
• Methodical
• Problem solving
• Analytical
• Assertiveness
• Dynamic

Certificate of Sponsorship

applicants from job seekers who require existing skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are encouraged and will be reviewed alongside all other applicants. For further information, visit the UK Visas and Immigration page.

From April 6, 2017, skilled worker applicants requesting for entrance clearance into the UK were required to show a criminal record certificate from each country where they had lived continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the previous ten years. This requirement also applies to adult dependents (those over the age of 18). Guidance can be found here. Criminal background checks for international candidates.