Pathology Category Manager | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
This full time permanent position is within a fast paced team working on complex tenders to deliver category plans and savings. It is an exciting opportunity for a highly literate and public procurement-competent individual to support the delivery of a significant programme of change within Pathology category.
You will relish the opportunity to assist in the delivery of Frimley Health’s strategic category management programme, be responsible for the delivery of a specific strategic sourcing programme within Pathology category with an ambitious cost improvement programme across the BSPS network.The network is made up of 5 partner Trusts namely Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospitals, Frimley Health Foundation Trust, Royal Berkshire, Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trusts, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust.
You will be responsible for managing large procurement projects in conjunction within Pathology. You will work to identify and manage procurements that deliver savings whilst ensuring a high level of patient care. You’ll also use your up-to-date knowledge to provide day to day information and advice on procurement processes, protocols and policy to key end users within the Trust as well as providing an invaluable contribution to the project team meetings on an on-going basis.
The role offers real potential to put your purchasing and project management expertise and experience into practice and gain the satisfaction of knowing that you have made a significant contribution towards the provision of high-quality care to our patients.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area. We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.
Some of the main job responsibilities are:- Delivery of strategic procurement initiatives
- Efficient and effective delivery of procurement services
- Maximise value for money opportunities through process improvement and total cost of ownership modelling
- Develop, manage and report on an agreed work and savings plans
- Comply with all relevant procurement legislation
- Act as the subject matter expert within category, leading by example
- Solve complex problems
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more details, if you have any queries regarding any part of this position please contact us.
This advert closes on Wednesday 16 Oct 2024