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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.
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.
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.
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
