Sourcing Manager

We have a remarkable opportunity for a Souring Manager to join our team at NHS SBS!

As a Sourcing Manager, you will play a significant role in ensuring the procurement process are conducted efficiently, clearly, and in compliance with regulatory standards, ultimately contributing to the delivery of high-quality healthcare services to the NHS. You will deliver service excellence, effective communication, customer engagement and management, partnership, project management, and adherence to public procurement regulations.

We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities.

This role predominantly home based, with travel to one of our offices based in either Salford, Leeds, or London once a month.

What you'll be doing:

• Offer procurement support to internal collaborators, assisting in supplier/external evaluator onboarding and addressing first-line queries.
• Run multiple small, medium, and large projects concurrently, adhering to tight deadlines and workload commitments.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives to improve procurement processes and outcomes.
• Collaborate effectively within and external to the procurement team, encouraging a culture of collaboration and partnership.
• Lead procurement-related projects, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and standard processes.
• Mentor, support, and lead a small team, promoting professional development and growth.

What you’ll bring:

• Experience/ knowledge of end to end procurement delivery.
• People leadership skills.
• High quality, flexible and responsive service delivery standards.
• Experience in using strategic sourcing tools such as e-tendering platforms (SAP Ariba/Atamis e.g.).
• Willingness to work towards CIPS level 4.
• Experience of working within public sector procurement and knowledge of PCR 2015 and understanding of New Procurement Act 2023.

It would be great if you had:

• Experience of working within NHS procurement environment.

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent

Location: Salford, Leeds, or London

Security Clearance Level: DBS

Internal Recruiter: Amy

Salary: Up to £40,000 per annum

Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, health cash plan, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) was created by the Department of Health and Social Care to deliver corporate services to the NHS. A unique joint venture with Sopra Steria, a European leader in digital services and software development, we make life easier for NHS employees, patients, and suppliers, and deliver value for money to the taxpayer. Proud members of the NHS family, we provide finance & accounting, digital, procurement and workforce services to more than half the NHS in England, and our solutions are underpinned by cutting-edge technologies and our teams’ expertise, in-depth understanding of the NHS, and commitment to service excellence.

We share common values and unity of purpose with the rest of the NHS family, are committed to being a force for good, and are dedicated and empowered to act responsibly and sustainably at organisational, team and individual level.

Would you like to join us on our journey?

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.