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Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Procurement Manager
Swindon Hybrid 10+ yrs exp Hospitals and Health Care 1,823 employees
ProcurementContract ManagementCategory ManagementNegotiationSupplier Management
Requirements
Candidates must have public sector procurement experience and significant category management experience at a senior level. A minimum of a degree at 2:1 level in a related subject and membership in CIPS (level 4 minimum) are also required.
Job Description
Job Summary
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.
Main duties of the job
As a Senior Procurement Manager in our Sourcing Team, you will take ownership of a non-pay category portfolio, leading sourcing and contract management activity for an addressable spend of circa £160m across the BSW ICS. You will shape category plans, run compliant procurements in line with public procurement regulations and local governance, negotiate commercial agreements and assure delivery of cash-releasing savings and value for money (with benefits agreed with Finance).
Working across Bath, Swindon and Wiltshire, you will be the trusted procurement expert for stakeholders, translating policy into practical advice, improving supplier and contract performance through clear KPIs, and helping ensure critical services are contracted, managed and renewed on time to support safe, effective patient environments.
To be considered, you will need public sector procurement experience and experience of working collaboratively across a large geographical area .
About Us
We are proud to be part of BSW Hospitals Group - a formal partnership between Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust and Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust. With a combined workforce of over 17, 600 colleagues, and budget of 1.6 billion the Group is united by a common purpose to deliver the best possible care to over 1 million people.
We are creating a health and care system that works with the people we care for, reducing the differences people currently face in access, experience and outcomes, improving the experience of our colleagues and tackling shared challenges like sustainability and finances. Every improvement we make across our Group will be guided by what creates the greatest benefit for our colleagues, our patients, our communities and our partners.
Job Description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.
Person Specification
Knowledge, Training And Experience Essential
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .
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.
Main duties of the job
As a Senior Procurement Manager in our Sourcing Team, you will take ownership of a non-pay category portfolio, leading sourcing and contract management activity for an addressable spend of circa £160m across the BSW ICS. You will shape category plans, run compliant procurements in line with public procurement regulations and local governance, negotiate commercial agreements and assure delivery of cash-releasing savings and value for money (with benefits agreed with Finance).
Working across Bath, Swindon and Wiltshire, you will be the trusted procurement expert for stakeholders, translating policy into practical advice, improving supplier and contract performance through clear KPIs, and helping ensure critical services are contracted, managed and renewed on time to support safe, effective patient environments.
To be considered, you will need public sector procurement experience and experience of working collaboratively across a large geographical area .
About Us
We are proud to be part of BSW Hospitals Group - a formal partnership between Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust and Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust. With a combined workforce of over 17, 600 colleagues, and budget of 1.6 billion the Group is united by a common purpose to deliver the best possible care to over 1 million people.
We are creating a health and care system that works with the people we care for, reducing the differences people currently face in access, experience and outcomes, improving the experience of our colleagues and tackling shared challenges like sustainability and finances. Every improvement we make across our Group will be guided by what creates the greatest benefit for our colleagues, our patients, our communities and our partners.
Job Description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.
Person Specification
Knowledge, Training And Experience Essential
- 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
- Supplier and contract management experience
- Relationship Management experience
- Strong commercial skills - tender writing, policy implementation, negotiation & influencing skills
- Full MCIPS
- Experience of working in Procurement within NHS or Public Sector
- An understanding of how the NHS works and product contingency planning approaches
- Prince 2
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .
Education
Bachelor DegreeProfessional Certificate
Skills
ProcurementContract ManagementCategory ManagementNegotiationSupplier ManagementPublic Sector ProcurementRelationship ManagementCommercial SkillsTender WritingPolicy ImplementationInfluencing SkillsSustainabilitySocial ValueKPI DevelopmentStakeholder EngagementProblem Solving
About Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the top three Trusts to work for in the South West. We employ almost 5,500 staff and serve a population of over 750,000 across Wiltshire and neighbouring counties. Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides acute hospital services (at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon) and community health services across Wiltshire. These services include community hospitals, community nursing and therapy, and children's and young people's services.
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