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Ready for a role where your work is visible, valued and makes a real difference? Join our award-winning Procurement Team and help shape a safe, modern and efficient NHS estate. We are recruiting two Senior Procurement Managers to take the lead on high-value sourcing and contract management across key non-clinical categories (including Estates and Facilities, workforce, IT and outsourced services). You will partner closely with clinical and corporate stakeholders to run end-to-end procurements, secure strong commercial agreements, drive supplier performance and deliver year-on-year savings, while keeping governance tight and championing sustainability and social value. If you are commercially minded, love solving problems and thrive on influencing change, this is your chance to make a tangible impact across our hospitals. You can be based at Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust or Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Swindon), with flexibility to work across sites as required.
Job Responsibility
Lead on high-value sourcing and contract management across key non-clinical categories
Partner closely with clinical and corporate stakeholders to run end-to-end procurements
Secure strong commercial agreements
Drive supplier performance
Deliver year-on-year savings
Keep governance tight
Champion sustainability and social value
Take ownership of a non-pay category portfolio, leading sourcing and contract management activity for an addressable spend of circa £160m
Shape category plans
Run compliant procurements in line with public procurement regulations and local governance
Negotiate commercial agreements
Assure delivery of cash-releasing savings and value for money
Be the trusted procurement expert for stakeholders
Translate policy into practical advice
Improve supplier and contract performance through clear KPIs
Help ensure critical services are contracted, managed and renewed on time
Requirements
Member of CIPS (level 4 minimum)
Educated to degree level min 2:1 in business or related subject
Significant category management experience at a senior level
Experience of working collaboratively across a large geographical area
Thorough understanding & experience of working within Public Sector Procurement regulations
Worked with National forums/special interest groups/collaborations