Category Head - Laboratories, Medical & Veterinary Medical

Full time: 35 Hours per week 

We are now looking for great people to join our award-winning procurement team. We are looking for people who make things happen, who challenge the status quo, are excited about working in a diverse, dynamic environment and really want to make a change. 

This is a great opportunity to join one of the key strategic teams in the University, in the role of Category Head of Laboratories, Medical & Veterinary Medical (Labs).

The Opportunity

Reporting to the Head of Strategic Procurement, the Category Head (Labs, Med & Vet Med) role is to lead, develop and manage a small, professional and high-quality procurement team, delivering procurement excellence for the University within the Laboratories (Labs), Medical (Med), Veterinary (Vet) and Agricultural Category. This will include both (i) improving the service and value delivered to our internal stakeholders, as well as (ii) improving external supplier performance, to successful achieve our strategic procurement ambitions and support the University in achieving its overall strategic objectives. 

Some of the main responsibilities include:

  • Prepare and deliver annual commodity plans to achieve best practice indicators, focusing on improving category influence, value for money, deliver the University procurement capability and influence whole life costs and sustainable procurement.
  • Develop the Labs procurement category in a strategic and operational nature, working in collaboration with Operational Procurement and Contract & Supplier Management teams, to ensue value for money and efficiencies are achieved across the University. 
  • Deliver commercial value to internal stakeholders and projects for their Labs, Medical and/or Vet Medical requirements, in line with the strategic ambitions of the project/department and University. 
  • Develop strategic and creative approaches to market through agreed commodity procurement strategies, in collaboration with key stakeholders, to support the University in achieving its strategic objectives  
  • Provide valuable supply market advice to stakeholders for current and future requirements with the aim of delivering additional commercial value for the University, achieving sustainability and social responsibility objectives, improving competition, and delivering efficiencies  
  • Manage, maintain and develop supply agreements for the University, carrying out contracting, tendering and sourcing exercises where required, and in line with relevant legislation. 
  • Deliver and embed appropriate contract and supplier management for the University’s supply relationships/ agreements, ensuring that optimal value is obtained throughout the life of the contract and that supply risks are mitigated. 
  • To reduce both capital and recurrent costs through effective routes to market against an agreed cost-savings targets. 
  • To manage, plan and demonstrate procurement leadership and good governance for a wide category of goods and services. 

£50,253 to £61,759 per annum, UE08

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