Job vacancy: Category Manager - FM, Property & Business Services, Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield

Job summary

Main area: NOECPC
Grade: Band 8A
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 173-32925-COR

Employer: Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Don Valley House
Town: Sheffield
Salary: £55,690 - £62,682 Per Annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 13/08/2025 23:59

Category Manager - FM, Property & Business Services

Band 8A

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As part of the NOE CPC Category Procurement Team you will need to be able to:
• Lead the delivery of complex procurement projects, in line with the including across ICS’s and with multiple stakeholders
• Support a category management approach in order to deliver cash releasing savings and sustainable total cost reductions for NHS in this category area.
• Have considerable knowledge and expertise within the specialist category area of FM and Property (Estates & Facilities).
• Have a strong customer focus, commercial acumen and a pro-active approach
• Have a sound approach to contract and supplier management in this category area
• Build excellent working relationships with peers, colleagues, customers and other external stakeholders at both operational and senior levels.
• Have a hands-on approach and a results focused mentality.
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This role will work closely with and support the Senior Category Manager as well as working alongside the other Category Managers to build individual and collaborative relationships with senior level and expert stakeholders in this category area, to manage a portfolio of agreements and to support new procurement activity in this field. The role will include extensive engagement with NHS organisations both individually and collaboratively, and supplier organisations in order to ensure procurement solutions are established and appropriate strategies are developed, which genuinely meet and continue to deliver against the needs of the NHS.

This role will include provision of expert category specific support and guidance to NHS organisations and to the wider public sector.

The roles require skills, experience, and a passion for procurement. Knowledge of and interest in the Estates and Facilities category areas is essential.

The role requires some travel to NHS organisations and other events nationally.

Location: Work base as stated above, however NOECPC adopts an agile working policy.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Degree and MCIPS

Experience

Essential criteria

Evidence of working with diverse senior stakeholders and stakeholder groups (for example, customers/clients / collaborative groups)
Senior level procurement experience preferably in the public sector and knowledge of both PCR 2015 and the Procurement Act 2023
Evidence of working with suppliers and within challenging / complex markets
Category specific background & expertise ideally in Facilities Management (Estates & Facilities)

Applications are welcomed from candidates who wish to apply for a position based on a smarter (Hybrid) or flexible working arrangement – please contact the Recruitment Team if you have any queries regarding this in terms of your initial application. Where candidates are successful at interview, flexible working arrangement requests will be taken into consideration and may be accommodated where the needs of the service allow.

Fixed Term Contracts for existing NHS Employees – temporary contracts for employees of LYPFT, or colleagues joining from another NHS Trust, will be offered on a secondment basis wherever possible. In the event this is not possible, an FTC would be issued and this would require a break in service of two weeks.

The purpose of a temporary is role could be for maternity cover, temporary funding or some other reason. At the end of which the need for the temporary work will cease. Temporary roles can stop, be extended and/or made permanent at any point during the period of work. Should the role become permanent then the post-holder will be informed of the process to be followed to convert the position to a permanent one.

Please note that from 1st July 2018, all new employees are required to subscribe to the DBS Update Service, DBS checks for volunteers remain free of charge.

Patient Safety is a priority at LYPFT with a focus on system-based improvement and creating opportunities for learning. We will ensure compassionate engagement with all those involved in an incident and all incidents are met with a proportionate response. LYPFT is committed to upholding its’ statutory responsibilities in relation to safeguarding adults and children. Please refer to job description for further information.

LYPFT is a member of the Disability Confident scheme and is committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

As part of the Trust's commitment to its Gold Standard Armed Forces Covenant status, members of the Armed Forces Community are entitled to a guaranteed interview subject to meeting the role criteria.

We welcome applicants with lived experience of providing unpaid care and/or support to a family member or friend with a disability, health condition, frailty, mental health problem, addiction or other health needs.

Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if enough applications are received. It is in the candidate’s best interest to apply as soon as possible. In submitting an application form, you authorise Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed to the post.

In applying for a role please ensure that you only declare qualifications that are relevant to the role itself. We reserve the right to check all declared qualifications on an application form, whether they are directly relevant to the role or not.

If you have not received any communication from us within four weeks you are asked to assume that your application has been unsuccessful. If you should have any queries regarding progress with your application form please contact us.

Please note: The Trust does not offer reimbursement of interview expenses.

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Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Jackie Williams
Job title: Senior Category Manager
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 01142127254

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Category Manager - FM, Property & Business Services

Band 8A

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