Job summary 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. Main duties of the job 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. About us Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff. We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff. We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme. Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk Job description Job responsibilities Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities. Job description Job responsibilities Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities. Person Specification Qualifications Essential 5 years procurement experience Member of CIPS (level 4 minimum) Educated to degree level min 2:1 in business or related subject Thorough understanding & experience of working within Public Sector Procurement regulations Desirable Full MCIPS Registration Prince 2 Experience Essential 3 years working within UK Public Sector Regulations Significant category management experience at a senior level Evidence of resilience Experience of working with wide range of stakeholders Experience of working collaboratively across a wide geographic area Thorough understanding & experience of working within Public Sector Procurement regulations Experiencing of working with National forums/special interest groups/collaborations Supplier and contract management experience Relationship Management experience Experience of strong commercial skills - tender writing, policy implementation, negotiation & influencing skills Project management skills, delivering on time Experience of being having highly effective communication skills, explaining in bite size chunks, complex legislative changes, practices & polices Desirable 3 years experience of working in Procurement within NHS or Public Sector at senior level oAn understanding of how the NHS works and product contingency planning approaches Person Specification Qualifications Essential 5 years procurement experience Member of CIPS (level 4 minimum) Educated to degree level min 2:1 in business or related subject Thorough understanding & experience of working within Public Sector Procurement regulations Desirable Full MCIPS Registration Prince 2 Experience Essential 3 years working within UK Public Sector Regulations Significant category management experience at a senior level Evidence of resilience Experience of working with wide range of stakeholders Experience of working collaboratively across a wide geographic area Thorough understanding & experience of working within Public Sector Procurement regulations Experiencing of working with National forums/special interest groups/collaborations Supplier and contract management experience Relationship Management experience Experience of strong commercial skills - tender writing, policy implementation, negotiation & influencing skills Project management skills, delivering on time Experience of being having highly effective communication skills, explaining in bite size chunks, complex legislative changes, practices & polices Desirable 3 years experience of working in Procurement within NHS or Public Sector at senior level oAn understanding of how the NHS works and product contingency planning approaches Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. 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