Job Posted: 4 June 2026
Job Updated: 4 June 2026
Job Title: Sourcing Manager
Function: Commercial
Location: Hybrid from one of our offices (Nottingham, Alfreton, Daresbury, Wakefield or Sheffield)
Contract type: 12 Month Secondment
Salary: £47,874 with the potential to rise to £56,322 over 3 years
Closing Date: Thursday 18th June, 2026
Are you a procurement professional who can balance commercial creativity with strict regulatory compliance? Do you thrive on navigating complex Law and policy, cross‑functional partnership, problem‑solving, and delivering robust tenders that support best‑in‑class commerciality? If so, we have an exciting 6‑month secondment opportunity within the Sourcing Execution team for a Sourcing Manager; the person who helps bring category strategy to life.
In this role, you’ll lead compliant sourcing and contracting activity across the full procurement cycle, ensuring high‑quality outputs that are delivered on time, aligned with public sector regulations and policy, and support our strategic goals.
You’ll work closely with category, legal, clinical, project management and other stakeholders to shape, develop and execute framework agreements across a broad portfolio of healthcare consumables, equipment and services. Using strong procurement expertise and stakeholder‑engagement skills, you’ll help clarify requirements, support category and sourcing strategy development, and contribute to effective delivery of key strategic goals.
Every day you will …
- Apply and interpret public sector procurement law and policy to ensure compliant, defensible decisions.
- Select appropriate procurement routes and lead compliant end‑to‑end tender processes from strategy through to contract award.
- Act as a strategic commercial advisor, shaping requirements and translating early ideas into clear sourcing approaches.
- Develop robust contracts and evaluation frameworks, ensuring fair, consistent and high‑quality supplier engagement and submissions.
- Drive effective delivery and continuous improvement through stakeholder collaboration, post‑award transition management, KPI focus, and coaching where needed.
What does success look like?
- Strategy doesn’t stay theoretical; you turn it into real, compliant tenders and contracts that land smoothly and on time.
- Stakeholders feel supported, even when they’re unclear, because you help them figure out what they need and what options exist.
- Tenders are delivered on time, compliant, and commercially strong.
- Supplier responses are better, clearer, and more complete due to your guidance and structured engagement.
- Contracting outputs are accurate, future-proof, and enable continuous improvement.
- Sourcing strategies are strengthened through your insight into options, challenge, and advisory influence.
- The team benefits from your expertise, problem-solving, and structured thinking.
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 VIP colleagues awards.
- 27 days holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase an additional 5 days.
- 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 will help you thrive in this role?
- Strong knowledge of public procurement legislation and policy, with the ability to apply rules confidently to complex scenarios and provide compliant, defensible advice.
- Proven ability to deliver compliant sourcing exercises, offering clear guidance on procedures, risks, and commercial options.
- High attention to detail, producing accurate, auditable documentation and robust contractual outputs.
- Effective collaborator and communicator, able to influence stakeholders and translate complex regulatory requirements into practical guidance.
- Well‑organised and adaptable, managing competing priorities in fast‑paced environments while supporting continuous learning and capability development.
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.
