Job Posted: 2 April 2026
Job Updated: 15 May 2026
Job Title: Property Manager
Function: Supply Chain Modernisation – Delivery
Location: Nottingham – Hybrid
Contract type: Permanent
Salary: Offered on a starting salary of £56,476 per annum, with the potential to increase to £66,443.00 over three years
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.
Working as a part of the Delivery team, the Property Manager is SCCL’s Commercial property custodian, responsible for ensuring SCCL meets its legal, financial and commercial obligations across its office and warehouse property portfolio. This includes oversight of leases and occupancy agreements, business rates, landlord relationships, insurance requirements, and compliance with Government Property Controls.
The role safeguards SCCL’s property interests, ensuring commercial consistency, cost control, strong landlord engagement and full compliance with central government standards. The Property Manager supports strategic estate planning and plays a critical role in ensuring SCCL’s office and warehouse footprint remains fit for the future.
Every day you will …
- Lead all lease events including renewals, break options, rent reviews and expiries, coordinating all activity with SCCL’s appointed real estate agent, ensuring commercial negotiations reflect SCCL’s aims and follow defined approval pathways
- Work closely with your line manager and key stakeholders to capture SCCL’s commercial, operational and strategic requirements, ensuring these are clearly communicated to the real estate agent so that negotiations accurately reflect SCCL’s objective
- You will own and coordinate SCCL’s acquisition and disposal processes, ensuring commercial, legal and financial implications are fully understood, governed and escalated through the appropriate approval channels
- Lead the Government Property Spend Controls (PCAR) process; drafting the business case through engagement with senior leaders, securing Executive approval; submitting documentation to DHSC and Cabinet Office; and drafting responses to clarification questions
- Work as SCCL’s internal lead, ensuring landlord engagement is proactive, issues are escalated, and outcomes align with SCCL’s commercial and operational objectives
- Oversee SCCL’s business rates obligations and its building/contents insurance requirements, ensuring compliance, accuracy and risk management across all sites
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 skills will help you thrive in this role?
- Experience managing commercial property portfolios, including leases, rent reviews, break options, dilapidations and landlord liaison
- Strong understanding of commercial property law principles and the financial, legal and operational implications of lease obligations.
- Experience coordinating acquisitions and disposals, including governance, due diligence and stakeholder alignment.
- Knowledge of business rates processes, valuations and opportunities for challenge or appeal.
- Experience managing buildings content insurance requirements and working with insurance brokers.
Want to develop your career with the NHS Supply Chain? Then apply below or reach out for an informal discussion about the role in confidence by emailing us at [email protected]
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.
