# 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/5cacd9a8-f162-45a3-b65d-d0004e6f9dfe - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-procurement-manager/5cacd9a8-f162-45a3-b65d-d0004e6f9dfe.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Swindon; Bath; Salisbury - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week ((Flexible Working Available - Can work from Bath, Swindon or Salisbury)) - **Closing date:** 2026-08-31T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-06T09:40:55.108Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8210733 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8210733?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.gwh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview "Previous Applicants need not apply" 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, minimum 2 days a week on site. ### 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 . Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for full details. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The postholder is responsible for the management and professional guidance of a specific category team of non-pay expenditure across the BSW Hospitals Group, ensuring that contracts are developed and awarded within Public Sector Policy, NHS legal frameworks to successfully achieve objectives year on year. These include the delivery of demonstrable and incremental cash releasing and efficiency savings, compliance with Public Policy Notices and meeting stakeholder and patient needs. Please see attached full job description ### Applicant requirements The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - 3 years working within UK Public Sector Regulations - Significant category management experience at a senior level - Evidence of resilience - Experience of working with wide range of stakeholders - Experience of working collaboratively across a wide geographic area - Thorough understanding & experience of working within Public Sector Procurement regulations - Experiencing of working with National forums/special interest groups/collaborations - Supplier and contract management experience - Relationship Management experience - Experience of strong commercial skills – tender writing, policy implementation, negotiation & influencing skills - Project management skills, delivering on time - Experience of being having highly effective communication skills, explaining in bite size chunks, complex legislative changes, practices & polices **Desirable** - An understanding of how the NHS works and product contingency planning approaches - Significant experience of working in Procurement within NHS or Public Sector at senior level ### Qualifications **Essential** - Thorough understanding & experience of working within Public Sector Procurement regulations - Educated to degree level min 2:1 in business or related subject - Member of CIPS (level 4 minimum) - Significant previous experience - procurement experience **Desirable** - Full MCIPS Registration - Prince 2 ## Documents - [job description and person specification (pdf, 811.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10517909) ## 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.