Trainee Category Assistant/Category Assistant
Location
Northampton, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
7/24/2025
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Description
An exciting opportunity has arisen for four Trainee Category Assistants/Category Assistants (dependent upon experience) to join our Category Management Teams across our newly formed group Procurement function.
Working across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN), which encompasses Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and Northampton General NHS Trust, you will be an integral part of one of our four specialist category areas, delivering a first class procurement service across UHN.
This is a great opportunity for a developing procurement professional to join the Procurement team at UHN and really make a difference. We currently have vacancies in our clinical, estates & facilities and digital category management teams. Base can be discussed, but noting the requirement will be to travel between sites when required.
You will be joining a large, friendly and supportive team which offers great opportunities for career progression.
We are recruiting to either band 4 Trainee Category Assistants, or band 5 Category Assistants, dependent upon experience. The Trainee Category Assistant roles offer a guaranteed progression to the Category Assistant, once competencies have been achieved.
If you would like to progress your career in procurement, please review the job descriptions and person specifications in the advert, and if you feel you match those requirements we'd love to hear from you.
The post holder will be responsible for undertaking specific sourcing projects for defined categories, across UHN and other NHS organisations as required.
Additionally, the post holder will be expected to take a wider customer service role and champion Procurement throughout UHN, whilst offering expert procurement advise to stakeholders.
You will be responsible for working on a wide range of procurement projects, working closely with trust managers and stakeholders to develop, deliver and manage contracts, ultimately carrying out end to end procurements.
The post holder will work closely on a day to day basis with the Category Specialists and be accountable to a Category Manager.
You will be studying towards, or willing to study towards MCIPS and have the discipline to work from an agreed work plan with deadlines.
This is an excellent opportunity to develop your procurement career in a dynamic, challenging and high profile environment.
Northampton General Hospital is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. All of our divisions are committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.
Our Excellence Values
Compassion
Accountability
Respect
Integrity
Courage
We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone’s full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities.
We are a Defence positive trust, supporting our reservists, veterans, spouses and partners.
The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled and LGBTQ+ backgrounds as these are underrepresented in our hospitals.
We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.
We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Rachel Pell Job title: Deputy Head of Group Procurement Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01604544859
Working across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN), which encompasses Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and Northampton General NHS Trust, you will be an integral part of one of our four specialist category areas, delivering a first class procurement service across UHN.
This is a great opportunity for a developing procurement professional to join the Procurement team at UHN and really make a difference. We currently have vacancies in our clinical, estates & facilities and digital category management teams. Base can be discussed, but noting the requirement will be to travel between sites when required.
You will be joining a large, friendly and supportive team which offers great opportunities for career progression.
We are recruiting to either band 4 Trainee Category Assistants, or band 5 Category Assistants, dependent upon experience. The Trainee Category Assistant roles offer a guaranteed progression to the Category Assistant, once competencies have been achieved.
If you would like to progress your career in procurement, please review the job descriptions and person specifications in the advert, and if you feel you match those requirements we'd love to hear from you.
The post holder will be responsible for undertaking specific sourcing projects for defined categories, across UHN and other NHS organisations as required.
Additionally, the post holder will be expected to take a wider customer service role and champion Procurement throughout UHN, whilst offering expert procurement advise to stakeholders.
You will be responsible for working on a wide range of procurement projects, working closely with trust managers and stakeholders to develop, deliver and manage contracts, ultimately carrying out end to end procurements.
The post holder will work closely on a day to day basis with the Category Specialists and be accountable to a Category Manager.
You will be studying towards, or willing to study towards MCIPS and have the discipline to work from an agreed work plan with deadlines.
This is an excellent opportunity to develop your procurement career in a dynamic, challenging and high profile environment.
Northampton General Hospital is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. All of our divisions are committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.
Our Excellence Values
Compassion
Accountability
Respect
Integrity
Courage
We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone’s full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities.
We are a Defence positive trust, supporting our reservists, veterans, spouses and partners.
The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled and LGBTQ+ backgrounds as these are underrepresented in our hospitals.
We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.
We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Rachel Pell Job title: Deputy Head of Group Procurement Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01604544859
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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