Data Maintenance Team Leader
Job Posted: 22 May 2026
Job Updated: 22 May 2026
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Job Title: Data Maintenance Team Leader
Function: Data and Technology
Location: Hybrid – one of our offices (Nottingham/Alfreton/Wakefield)
Contract type: Permanent
Salary: £37,502 with the potential to rise to £41,669 over 3 years
NHS Supply Chain currently has an opportunity for a Data Maintenance Team Leader to join our team during an exciting period of transformation, working to make it easier for the NHS to put patients first.
We are seeking an experienced Team Leader who will manage a team of Data Maintenance Associates and a Principal Data Maintenance Associate who are responsible for maintaining various data items in NHS Supply Chain systems – including but not limited to contract, supplier, and product data. The team’s current main focus is to support contract launch and customer opportunities pipelines, and the Data Maintenance Team Lead coordinates activities to ensure that timelines are met, and any challenges escalated
Every day you will …
1. Maintain the team workload and resource planner/rota and allocate tasks to ensure that all activities, both scheduled and unplanned, are actioned following team SLAs, keeping key stakeholders updated in terms of progress.
2. Follow a triage, prioritisation, and escalation process to help with the planning of workload and management of stakeholders’ expectations.
3. Monitor and control compliance to data quality standards and efficiency targets, and identify opportunities for process improvements.
4. Participate in commercial contract governance and various other data maintenance project calls, updating cross-functional teams on progress and challenges.
5. Support the Data Maintenance Manager in reporting workload outstanding and completed, as well as team performance and SLAs, highlighting areas requiring development.
6. Oversee team recruitment and training.
7. Assist team members in setting and meeting their objectives.
8. Promote a committed collaborative approach to ways of working within the team, promoting process improvement and idea generation.
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:
9. Hybrid working opportunities, giving you the flexibility to work collaboratively in the office and remotely.
10. We recognise our employees’ hard work and contributions with annual bonus schemes, long service, and colleague recognition awards.
11. 27 days holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase an additional 5 days.
12. We are dedicated to your development, through in-house training, support, and access to external qualifications to maximise your potential.
13. A focus on your well-being offering 1 day of paid well-being leave and free access to the 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
14. Generous pension scheme (with us contributing 12% when you contribute 6%)
15. 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.
16. 2 days of paid volunteering leave allowing you to give back to your community.
17. Access to many discounts from the Blue Light Card to NHS Discounts.