Category Officer

Role: Category Officer

Location: Hybrid working

Duration: Permanent

Salary: £29,970 to £36,483 per annum + excellent benefits.

Category Officer sought for a public sector organisation based in the South East of England, on a permanent basis to support the category teams and support key stakeholders and suppliers to build a reputation for excellence in the procurement services. The candidate will be experienced in building relationships with existing clients and new clients through delivering a high-quality service.

The Category Officer will be responsible for:

• General operational, project and analytical support to the procurement team;
• Analyses commercial data and provides information to support initiation and monitoring of procurement projects
• Monitors purchasing trends to develop category knowledge and aid the collation of market intelligence
• Collates, interprets and presents data to support the development and implementation of the Procurement Strategy
• Works with the procurement team in identifying opportunities to conduct opportunity assessments
• Assists the Executive Directors and their teams to quantify and validate savings and better practice opportunities across a range of Trust projects
• Ensures accurate and timely tracking of project tasks and milestones, as well as benefits.

• Management and coordination of the end to end tender and contracting process within the e-Tendering system, including;
• Provides support to the Category Manager on opportunity and market analyses
• Supports the Category Manager on stakeholder and market engagement
• Preparation of tender documentation
• Stakeholder and supplier communications
• Tender evaluation and bid assessment
• Contract award

• Attendance at meetings at various Hospitals and venues throughout the region/country. Preparing documents and writing up notes of meetings
• Delivering presentations to large groups both internal and external.

Essential Skills for the Category Officer the role:

• Degree or Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) or equivalent
• Essential procurement experienced including negotiation skills, statistical and data analysis skills, EU procurement directives or PCR 2015, purchasing knowledge
• Excellent working knowledge of procurement systems
• Expert user of MS office, including excel, word, powerpoint
• Excellent MS Excel skills - Vlookup, SumIf and CountIf, If and IfError, Multi-layer nested formulane, relative and absolute references, pivot tables, charts and pivot charts.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Resolving queries and influencing people
• Analysis of multiple data sets across a broad multi-customer economy
• Attention to detail
• Methodical and tenacious.

If you would like to apply for this Category Officer role or would like to find out more, please apply online or contact Rebecca Dawson. The deadline for CVs for this role is the 20^th November, with interviews being held on the 3^rd - 5th December on site.

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