# Senior Procurement Manager > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-procurement-manager/4a49ccc0-f215-4f8b-a497-e9219cdf0e94 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-procurement-manager/4a49ccc0-f215-4f8b-a497-e9219cdf0e94.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board - **Location:** Haylock House - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Procurement manager - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,582 - £77,368 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-05T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-21T00:03:01.775Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Northamptonshire/Kettering/NHS_Northamptonshire_Integrated_Care_Board/Contracts_Procurement/Contracts_Procurement-v8303699 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8303699?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.icnorthamptonshire.org.uk/ ## Job Content ### Job overview The Senior Procurement Manager will support the Contracts and Procurement Team to deliver system transformation and best practice through delivering the LLR system’s commissioning objectives and Integrated Care Board (ICB) statutory and delegated responsibilities through the planning, negotiation and management of a range of health care contracts across the full portfolio of Primary, Neighbourhood, Community, Mental Health and Learning Disability and Acute Care. community and acute care. ### Main duties of the job - Support delivery of the NHS Strategic Commissioning Framework and LNR Operating Model. - Acting as the principal link between provider selection activity and the strategic commissioning and business planning functions of the ICB Cluster, ensuring commissioning intentions are translated into compliant and effective procurement, contracting and market management approaches. - Providing specialist advice and support on provider selection, procurement and commercial matters to commissioners, programme leads and senior stakeholders, ensuring regulatory compliance and alignment with strategic priorities. - Ensuring that procurement and commercial activity is delivered in a timely way and achieves value for money, service transformation, and reflects best practice – to include development of clear service specifications, service standards, activity levels, quality requirements and outcome measures. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - Managing delivery of provider selection and commercial activity within budget and ensuring that intended outcomes, benefits and efficiencies are realised, taking proactive remedial action where necessary to ensure value and effectiveness are maximised for LNR patients. - Where appropriate ensure provider selection activities are undertaken in line with NHS England guidance, the Provider Selection Regime (PSR), Procurement Act requirements and local governance arrangements, working with system and regional teams as required. - Managing supplier and provider market engagement activities to ensure procurement strategies reflect service requirements, market capability and organisational objectives. - Leading and supporting provider selection and procurement activities and participating in the development and implementation of new innovative commissioning and contracting models to support the ICB Cluster in shaping the health and care market to meet anticipated future need. - Managing and developing staff, ensuring that the team delivers a high quality, professional and responsive procurement and commercial service. See Person Specification available in full Job Description attached ## Person Specification ### Autonomy **Essential** - Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales - Interpreting national policy for implementation ### Analytical **Essential** - Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues, create solutions and resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery - Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and make decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution ### Physical Skills **Essential** - Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills ### Planning Skills **Essential** - Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time ### Management Skills **Essential** - Skills for direct line management and job management - Skills for delivering results through managing others and using a range of levers in the absence of direct line management responsibility - Skills for managing relationships with a range of different stakeholders ### Communication Skills **Essential** - Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders both internal and external (including outside the NHS) to the organisation, some at very senior level - Good presentational skills for conveying complex concepts - Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others ### Equality and Diversity **Essential** - Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of equality of opportunity and diversity taking into account and being aware of how individual actions contribute to and make a difference to the equality agenda ### Knowledge, Training and Experience **Essential** - Educated to master’s level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area - Demonstrable knowledge of the Provider Selection Regime (PSR), public procurement legislation, NHS commissioning arrangements and public sector governance - Proven and significant leadership experience - Evidence of post qualifying continuing professional development - Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement - Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, NHS England and individual provider and commissioning organisations - MCIPS or equivalent professional procurement qualification. ## Documents - [updated job description and person specification (pdf, 320.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10623328) ## 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.