# Senior Procurement Manager > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-procurement-manager/0e47ccfa-219a-4f39-bc74-26219d7e0778 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-procurement-manager/0e47ccfa-219a-4f39-bc74-26219d7e0778.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Swindon - **Region:** South West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week (Flexible Working Available - Can work from Bath, Swindon or Salisbury)) - **Closing date:** 2026-06-14T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-02T15:42:35.304Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Wiltshire/Swindon/Great_Western_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Procurement/Procurement-v8051874 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8051874?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.gwh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview 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 . ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities. ## Job Details 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 Description 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 . ## 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 **Desirable** - 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 ## Documents - [recruitment jobs pack (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2726) - [job description & person specification (pdf, 320.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10341349) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.