Category Buyer

One of our clients are looking for a Category Buyer for the NHS to join their expanding team.

Key Accountabilities

As a NHSSC Category Buyer, you will manage the entire end to end procurement process for your category on behalf of NHS Supply Chain: Food.

You will manage all category supplier relationships, engage and support a wide range of stakeholders and execute best sourcing procurement processes in accordance with the Public Contract Regulations 2015/Procurement Act 2023.

You will manage all stages of the NHSSC: Food Procurement Framework from strategy definition and creation to the tendering process and launch, all the way through to supplier relationship management and continuous improvement.

You will contribute to the teams continued success by building and implementing market leading and innovative category strategies that enables NHS Supply Chain: Food to optimise its buying power across all markets, building insight for negotiations and market knowledge and conducting industry analysis to support business stakeholders with commercial understanding of the market place within a highly progressive and fast paced environment.

You will be passionate about your category and motivated to ensure that we meet our team targets and KPIs to deliver value to our client and drive savings for the NHS, whilst also ensuring they deliver growth to their supplier partners through engagement and performance management.

You will be a great communicator who will be able to develop strong relationships with all stakeholders and be able to work cross functionally to ensure we deliver for our client.

In return, they offer each individual clearly defined career pathways, L&D programmes and progression opportunities to support you in your long-term career aspirations.

Key Contacts & Working Relationships

• Category Development Team
• External Suppliers
• Trust Stakeholders
• Client Stakeholders
• Account Managers
• Finance Team
• Project Managers
• Marketing & Communications
• Culinary Lead & Dietician

Learning & Development Requirements

• Systems (Cognos, OEC, Jaggaer, PRDB)
• Understanding of Public Procurement regulations
• NHSSC: Food Procurement Framework

Location / Equipment Requirements

• Full time (5 day per week) 2 days office-based position located in Chertsey/Normanton/Chester and 3 days based on your home location with some travel to UK based sites and offices required
• Laptop
• Mobile Phone

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