Enlivio Health
Senior Procurement Category Manager
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Are you an experienced procurement professional with strong expertise in technology sourcing and complex commercial negotiations?
Do you enjoy leading high-value deals, working with key stakeholders, and driving value across cloud, software and IT supplier landscapes? If so, we’d love you to read on.
About the Team:
Our procurement team is undergoing an exciting transformation as we strengthen and scale our capability to support the business. We’re creating a lean, high-performing team focused on delivering commercial value, strengthening supplier relationships and supporting business growth.
This role will play a key part in leading our most complex and high-value technology procurement activity.
This role is hybrid working; you will work predominantly from home and once a week in our Fulford Grange office (LS19 6BA).
About the Role:
As a Senior Procurement Category Manager, you will act as a subject matter expert for technology procurement, leading end-to-end sourcing, supplier negotiations and contract management across key spend areas.
You will take ownership of high-value and complex contracts, including cloud, SaaS and IT services, and partner closely with stakeholders to deliver commercial outcomes and cost optimisation.
You will also support the wider procurement function by embedding best practice and driving consistency across procurement processes.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead end-to-end sourcing and procurement activity across technology categories including cloud, software and IT services
- Own and lead complex, high-value commercial negotiations with key suppliers (e.g. AWS, Microsoft)
- Develop and implement category strategies aligned to business objectives
- Manage supplier relationships, performance and risk across key contracts
- Identify and deliver cost optimisation opportunities across spend areas
- Partner with stakeholders to provide commercial insight and support decision-making
- Support supplier transition activity and delivery of high-priority contracts during a period of operational change
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Who You Are:
You are a strong procurement professional with technical expertise in technology sourcing and a proven ability to lead complex commercial negotiations.
You are confident working with senior stakeholders, comfortable managing multiple priorities, and thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment. Your commercial acumen and attention to detail enable you to deliver value and mitigate risk across supplier relationships.
Key Skills, Experience & Qualifications:
- Strong procurement experience
- Proven experience in technology procurement (software, SaaS, cloud or IT services)
- Demonstrable experience managing complex sourcing processes and contract negotiations
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Experience in supplier relationship management and contract lifecycle management
- Strong commercial acumen and analytical capability
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Enlivio Health powers a more connected healthcare system. Across general practice, community care and pharmacy, we support over 10,000 healthcare organisations, connecting teams, information and workflows across the places where millions of people receive care every day.
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Inclusion & Belonging
At Enlivio Health, we believe that diverse perspectives, experiences and backgrounds make us stronger. They help us better support our colleagues, customers and the communities we serve.
We're committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels respected, valued and able to be their authentic selves. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and are proud to be an equal opportunities employer.
We consider all qualified applicants regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
We're committed to making our recruitment process accessible and inclusive for everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the application or selection process, please let us know and we'll be happy to support you.
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