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Job summary

Main area
Procurement
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week ((Flexible Working Available - Can work from Bath, Swindon or Salisbury))
Job ref
269-SFT9773-B
Employer
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Great Western Hospital/ Royal United Hospitals Bath/ Salisbury Foundation Trust
Town
Swindon / Bath / Salisbury
Salary
£49,387 - £56,515 per annum pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
31/08/2026 23:59

Employer heading

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Senior Procurement Manager

Band 7

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.

Working for our organisation

We are proud to be part of BSW Hospitals Group – a formal partnership between Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust and Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust. With a combined workforce of over 17, 600 colleagues, and budget of 1.6 billion the Group is united by a common purpose to deliver the best possible care to over 1 million people.

We are creating a health and care system that works with the people we care for, reducing the differences people currently face in access, experience and outcomes, improving the experience of our colleagues and tackling shared challenges like sustainability and finances. Every improvement we make across our Group will be guided by what creates the greatest benefit for our colleagues, our patients, our communities and our partners.

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 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • 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 criteria
  • Full MCIPS Registration
  • Prince 2

Experience

Essential criteria
  • 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 criteria
  • 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

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Kelly Willoughby
Job title
Deputy Director of Procurement
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07826903107
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