HCRG Care Group

Procurement Category Manager - Direct

The closing date is 22 March 2026

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen within our Procurement team at HCRG Care Group as we continue to grow and expand our services across the organisation. We are seeking a motivated and commercially mindedProcurement Category Manager (Direct Spend)to take responsibility for planning and managing direct procurement activity across both existing and new organisational requirements. This includes leading tenders, conducting direct negotiations, and ensuring our procurement activities deliver maximum value.

The focus of this role is to make the best use of economies of scale, securing the right suppliers, goods, and services while maintaining high quality standards. With our organisation operating in a dynamic and developing landscape, strong forward planning is essential to help reduce reactive procurement and drive more strategic decisionmaking.

You will work closely with operational teams and the Head of Procurement, playing a key role in our ongoing transformation. The procurement function is currently midjourney in its maturity, having evolved in recent years from a reactive, transactional service to a strategic, proactive function. While agility will always be required, we see significant opportunities to enhance supplier control, forecast spend, and further embed strategic procurement across the organisation.

Main duties of the job

What You'll do:

Plan, manage, and deliver procurement activity across direct spend categories
Lead competitive tenders, evaluations, and direct supplier negotiations
Consolidate organisational requirements to maximise economies of scale
Drive strategic procurement practices while supporting a fastpaced operational environment
Influence supplier performance and support stronger commercial governance
Work collaboratively with internal stakeholders and operational teams
Contribute to the development and evolution of a more proactive procurement function
Support forecasting, spend analysis, and supplier relationship management

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2

Date posted

11 March 2026

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£50,000 to £50,000 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

HCRGCG/TP/40134/18683

Job locations

HCRG Care Group

Runcorn

Cheshire

WA7 4QX

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will feel valued as aProcurement Category Manager - Direct (Healthcare & Clinical)within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

£50,000 annual salary with group pension
Private medical insurance with fast access to the most used specialists including for musculoskeletal problems and for mental health support at locations across the country
Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location in Runcorn
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will feel valued as aProcurement Category Manager - Direct (Healthcare & Clinical)within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

£50,000 annual salary with group pension
Private medical insurance with fast access to the most used specialists including for musculoskeletal problems and for mental health support at locations across the country
Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location in Runcorn
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Person Specification

General Requirements

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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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

HCRG Care Group

Address

HCRG Care Group

Runcorn

Cheshire

WA7 4QX

Employer's website

https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

HCRG Care Group

Address

HCRG Care Group

Runcorn

Cheshire

WA7 4QX

Employer's website

https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/ (Opens in a new tab)