Job Posted: 19 August 2026
Job Updated: 19 August 2026
Job Title: Programme Manager
Function: Supply Chain Modernisation – Delivery
Location: Hybrid Worker – Expectation is two days per week on site at our Nottingham office
Contract type: Permanent
Salary: Offered on a starting salary of £65,920 with the potential to increase to £77,553 over the course of three years. Plus a car allowance of £7000
Closing Date: Wednesday 2nd September 2026
NHS Supply Chain currently has an opportunity for a to join our team during an exciting period of transformation, working to make it easier for the NHS to put patients first.
The NHS Supply Chain has an opportunity for an experienced Programme Manager to join our Supply Chain Modernisation programme during an exciting period of complex transformation. This role will play a key part in driving the successful delivery of multi-disciplinary projects / a sub-programme within the overarching programme that underpin our long-term transformation goals and organisational vision.
The programme will impact many parts of the organisation as well as our customers and suppliers. Effective programme and project delivery is critical to ensuring that change is implemented successfully and that expected benefits and outcomes are realised for patients, customers and the business.
Every day you will …
- Lead the delivery of complex projects / a sub-programme within the Supply Chain Modernisation Programme, ensuring alignment to programme objectives and priorities
- Lead the delivery of large-scale operational, technology, digital and knowledge-related programmes and projects, ensuring successful integration across people, process, data and technology.
- Ensure consistent control and alignment across multiple sub-programmes / projects / workstreams
- Drive delivery against time, quality and cost from an individual project as well as overarching sub-programme / programme perspective.
- Proactively identify risks, issues and dependencies ensuring appropriate mitigation plans are developed and escalated where required.
What can we offer you?
We want to reward you for your passion, enthusiasm, and hard work so we offer much more than a competitive salary:
- Hybrid working opportunities, giving you the flexibility to work collaboratively in the office and remotely.
- We recognise our employees’ hard work and contributions with annual bonus schemes, long service, and colleague recognition awards.
- 27 days holiday plus bank holidays
- We are dedicated to your development, through in-house training, support, and access to external qualifications to maximise your potential.
- A focus on your well-being offering 1 day of paid well-being leave and free access to the 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
- Generous pension scheme (with us contributing 12% when you contribute 6%)
- Access to our Flexible Benefits Scheme, where you can choose from a variety of benefits such as Life Insurance, Critical Illness Cover, Income Protection, Health Cash Plan, Dental Insurance, and additional pension contributions that suit you.
- 2 days of paid volunteering leave allowing you to give back to your community.
- Access to many discounts from the Blue Light Card to NHS Discounts.
NHS Supply Chain, who are we?
Our role is to support the NHS to save lives and improve health. We are a part of the NHS family, and our role is to source, deliver and supply healthcare products, services and food for NHS trusts and healthcare organisations across England and Wales.
We serve every NHS Trust and operate a national network of distribution centres, managing relationships with more than a thousand suppliers and delivering more than 8,000,000 orders each year to more than 17,000 locations. Doing all of this on behalf of the NHS gives NHS staff more time to focus on their main priority of providing excellent patient care.
What skills will help you thrive in this role?
- Recognised programme or project management qualification (e.g. MSP Foundation/Practitioner, PRINCE2 Practitioner, APM PMQ or equivalent).
- Significant experience delivering large-scale projects, programmes or business transformation initiatives.
- Experience managing multiple interdependent projects and workstreams within a structured delivery framework.
- Experience working within complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
- Experience managing risks, issues, dependencies and change requests.
Our Inclusive Commitment
At NHS Supply Chain, we are committed to building an inclusive environment where difference is not only valued, but celebrated, giving everyone the opportunity to thrive in their career. Developing our people is key to our success, so if this role sounds like the right next step in your career but your experience doesn’t match perfectly with the job advert, we encourage you to still apply.
Struggling to complete our application form, and require additional support? Reach out to our Talent Acquisition team at [email protected] who will be happy to help you with alternative ways to apply.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy from further submissions when we have received sufficient applications from which to make a shortlist. Please apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
SCCL is a company Registered in England and Wales, with company number 10881715, to act as the management function of the NHS Supply Chain.
