# Senior Procurement Manager

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Salisbury
- **Profession:** Manager and corporate
- **Salary:** £49387.00 to £56515.00
- **Contract type:** Permanent: n/a
- **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week (Flexible Working Available - Can work from Bath, Swindon or Salisbury)
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-31T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-06T08:58:03.695Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8210462
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8210462?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.salisbury.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

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

## Documents

- [facts about salisbury (pdf, 214.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1618)
- [senior procurement manager (pdf, 320.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10517567)

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