Job Overview
Partners Procurement Services (PPS) delivers end-to-end procurement and supply chain services across a group of NHS Trusts, operating under a modernised governance framework that supports collaboration, growth and high standards of assurance. From April 2026, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (GOSH) will join PPS as a member. GOSH is an international centre of excellence in child healthcare, an acute specialist paediatric hospital with a mission to provide world-class care to children and young people with rare, complex and difficult-to-treat conditions. GOSH receives over 300,000 patient visits each year, with 60 nationally recognised clinical specialties and a broad range of services including paediatric intensive care and cardiac surgery.
We are recruiting a Category Manager to support the delivery of clinical consumables and devices procurement for GOSH during its onboarding into PPS and as part of the wider shared service.
Main duties of the job
The Role Of Category Manager Spans The Following:
* Support Senior Buyers and Buyers to ensure projects are delivered effectively, responsibly and in line with agreed policies and procedures.
* Manage and develop the category work-plan to drive workload and ensure effective coverage, incorporating national and collaborative priorities and contracts and applying appropriate sourcing strategies.
* Identify and deliver savings against targets, ensuring savings are recorded accurately and regularly.
* Work with PPS and NHS Supply Chain colleagues to ensure appropriate category contract coverage and benefit delivery.
* Maintain awareness of technological developments within the category and support development of team market knowledge.
* Support PPS staff in the consistent application of agreed processes and procedures.
* Provide advice, expertise and support to stakeholders on product selection, market testing and related activities.
Initially focused on GOSH, the role will manage defined areas of the consumables and devices portfolio, leading sourcing exercises, contract reviews and supplier engagement. The role involves close working with clinicians, operational teams and senior colleagues to ensure products meet clinical needs, quality standards and value expectations.
The post will support catalogue management, P2P enablement, service transition into PPS and collaborative procurement activity across the wider PPS membership.
About Us
As a PPS Category Manager, you will benefit from working within a shared service that values professional expertise, consistency and collaboration, while gaining exposure to highly specialist environments such as GOSH's paediatric services. Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and aims to be fair and accessible to everyone. The Trust promotes recruitment, training and employment policies that reflect differences in age, disability, gender, race, religion or belief, and other protected characteristics.
Details
Date posted 19 January 2026
Pay scheme Agenda for change
Band Band 7
Salary £56,276 to £63,176 a year Per Annum Including HCAS
Contract Permanent
Working pattern Full-time
Reference number 220-WHT-3629
Job locations Whittington Hospital, London, N19 5NF
Job Description
Job responsibilities Overarching Description and Requirements can be found in 'Main Duties' & 'Key Result Areas' within the Job Description.
Person Specification
Essential
* Minimum 5 years' experience in working within a relevant NHS Acute or other comparably complex procurement environment.
* Knowledge of acute hospital sector buying and local buying procedures.
* Comprehensive knowledge and experience of Public Contract Regulations.
* Knowledge of NHS procedures, systems, legislation and guidance.
* Experience of working with a range of suppliers and customers and maintaining good and effective business relationships.
* Experience of working with multiple operating businesses or different customers at the same time.
Education and Qualifications
* Educated and attained a pass in 5 GCE (A-C), including mathematics and English; knowledge of public procurement legislation.
* CIPS part or fully qualified or willing to study towards CIPS.
Other requirements
* Commitment to learning and self development
* Strong identity with the core values of the public service and the NHS
* Ability to deal with pressurised situations in peak workload periods
* IT literate with working knowledge of key MS packages
Skills and Abilities
* Capable of undertaking analytical tasks and manipulation of spreadsheets
* Good and effective interpersonal and communication skills to enable effective team working
* Team player with the ability to contribute effectively at junior management level
* Capable of demonstrating negotiation skills
* Capable of demonstrating problem solving skills (assessed prior to employment)
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 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.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website. From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in for 12 months or more in the past 10 years.
Employer details
Whittington Hospital NHS Trust, Whittington Hospital, London, N19 5NF
Employer's website https://www.whittington.nhs.uk/
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