Job overview
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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, 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
Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.
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
- 3 years experience of working in Procurement within NHS or Public Sector at senior level
- • An understanding of how the NHS works and product contingency planning approaches
Qualifications
Essential
- 5 years procurement experience
- Member of CIPS (level 4 minimum)
- Educated to degree level min 2:1 in business or related subject
- Thorough understanding & experience of working within Public Sector Procurement regulations
Desirable
- Full MCIPS Registration
- Prince 2
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This advert is for Senior Procurement Manager with Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust in Salisbury, England. It is listed as a Manager and corporate role. The advertised salary is £49387.00 to £56515.00. The contract type is Permanent: n/a. The application deadline is 31 Aug 2026.
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