# Category Manager - Business Services

**Company**: Elysium Healthcare
**Location**: Borehamwood
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £60000.00
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a strategic procurement professional to join Elysium Healthcare as a Category Manager - Business Services. You will lead the development and delivery of category strategies across a diverse portfolio of corporate and operational services.

In this role, you will take ownership of a range of Business Services categories. Working closely with stakeholders across the organisation, you will develop and implement category strategies that deliver cost savings, improve supplier performance, mitigate risk, and ensure the organisation receives maximum value from its third-party expenditure.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Leading end-to-end sourcing activities, from understanding business requirements and market analysis through to tendering, contract negotiations, supplier selection, and implementation.

- Building robust business cases, managing sourcing pipelines, negotiating favourable commercial terms, and tracking both financial and non-financial benefits.

- Providing trusted commercial advice and challenging stakeholders to support effective decision-making.

- Developing strong supplier relationships, overseeing contract performance, managing renewals and governance processes, and ensuring contracts deliver the expected outcomes throughout their lifecycle.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

- Strong understanding of category management, strategic sourcing, supplier management, and procurement best practice.

- Commercially minded, with the ability to identify savings opportunities and deliver value.

- Excellent negotiation, stakeholder management, and communication skills.

- Ability to analyse spend data and translate insights into practical recommendations.

- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and projects.

- Proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

- MCIPS qualified or equivalent procurement experience desirable.

In return for your hard work, you will receive:

- Annual base salary of £60,000

- The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays) – plus your birthday off and the option to buy additional annual leave

- Career development and training to help you achieve your professional goals

- Access to our Rewards & Benefits platform Ely-Vate

- Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance

- Access to Blue Light Card, which provides a range of exclusive offers and discounts

- Life Assurance, for added peace of mind

- Stream – instant access to earned wages when you need it, plus access to save, directly from your wages, alongside financial wellbeing support

- 24/7 GP service and second medical opinion

- Enhanced Maternity Package

- Pension contribution

## Skills

### Required
- category management
- strategic sourcing
- supplier management
- procurement
- Microsoft Office
- negotiation
- stakeholder management
- communication
- spend data analysis

### Nice to have
- MCIPS qualification
- experience within healthcare, social care, or a multi-site environment

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