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Job summary

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

Employer heading

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust logo

Senior Procurement Manager

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

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visitingwww.experiencesalisbury.co.uk

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

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
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

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardWe offer Wagestream - A financial wellbeing benefit which lets you access your pay as you earn it.Disability confident employerWomens Staff Network

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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