Procurement Manager
Job Description
Job summary
Join a friendly, high-performing team at the forefront of transformation, where procurement plays a key role in shaping future services. This is not a traditional procurement role. It offers a more strategic focus, with the opportunity to lead complex healthcare procurements and shape and secure services that directly impact patient care.
You'll work across a varied and evolving portfolio, collaborating with clinical, operational and system partners to influence decisions and bring new ideas to life. The work is dynamic, visible and genuinely makes a difference.
We offer a supportive and flexible environment, with real autonomy to manage your own workload. You'll be part of a collaborative team that values trust, development and shared success. The role is hybrid, with just one day per week in the office.
This is a great opportunity to grow your career in an ambitious and forward-looking area of the organisation, where procurement is central to change and improvement.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking a commercially minded Procurement Manager to lead high-value, complex healthcare procurement activity and help maximise the impact of our resources. This is a senior, high-impact role where you will shape sourcing strategies, deliver value for money, and support better outcomes for our communities.
You will manage the full pre-award procurement lifecycle, from market engagement and tendering through to contract award and mobilisation. Working closely with clinical and corporate stakeholders, you will act as a trusted advisor, guiding decisions with insight, data and market knowledge. Your work will directly support better outcomes for our patients and colleagues.
Key responsibilities
Lead end-to-end procurement activity, ensuring compliant and effective tender processes.
Deliver savings, efficiencies and wider social value benefits.
Develop category strategies and forward procurement plans.
Build strong stakeholder relationships and influence decision making.
Provide expert advice on procurement legislation, governance and best practice.
Manage multiple complex projects, delivering to time and quality expectations.
Support continuous improvement of procurement processes and tools.
About you
You will bring strong public sector procurement experience, excellent stakeholder engagement skills, and the confidence to lead complex projects. You will be collaborative, commercially focused and able to turn strategy into delivery.
About us
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.Visitbeinlincolnshire.comto find out more.
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.
When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:
Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
Competitive annual leave allowance
Car leasing scheme
NHS pension scheme
Free eye tests
Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Undergraduate Degree level or equivalent, preferably in a related subject, or equivalent experience
- Evidence of continued education and/or training to support professional development
- Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) MCIPS accredited, actively working towards it, or equivalent experience
- Specialist knowledge of contract law / legislation to support public procurement
Desirable
- Knowledge of NHS and the political and economic climate within which healthcare is delivered
- Government Commercial College Transforming Public Procurement Certificate
- Management qualification
- Project / Change Management qualification
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience operating across the pre-award phase of public sector procurement, with responsibility for determining route to market, leading competitive tendering activity, and shaping commercial outcomes prior to contract award
- Demonstrable knowledge of public sector procurement
- Experience of operating in a lead or management procurement role with specialist day to day procurement knowledge relating to a range of categories of non-pay spend
- Significant experience of procurement processes including leading complex, above-threshold tenders from market engagement through to contract award
- Extensive experience of competitive tenders, including determining and justifying appropriate routes to market (e.g. frameworks, mini-competitions, open or restricted procedures)
- Experience of being responsible for procurement information systems
- Experience co-ordinating the production of all the documentation required for the procurement process in liaison with other parties
- Experience of working with a range of stakeholders in different settings
- Ability to produce comprehensive draft reports, data and formal letters
- Experience of dealing with other external organisations and regulatory bodies
- Expertise in public sector procurement obtained via further training and experience
Desirable
- Public Sector Procurement Experience
- Project Management Experience
- Understanding of a range of contractual constructs including common NHS T&Cs
- Understanding and/or experience of working within the NHS or a local authority and an understanding of organisational structures, processes and systems
- Demonstrable success in managing change projects involving stakeholders
- Experience of developing and delivering procurement training
- Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment
- Experience of managing a team with or without direct line management authority
Skills
Essential
- Demonstrated ability to analyse markets, assess procurement risk, and design sourcing strategies that optimise value for money, competition and compliance prior to contract award
- Able to demonstrate impact and proactive customer relationship building
- Forward thinking with an innovative and creative approach to problem solving
- Highly effective leadership skills with the ability to effectively lead, manage, develop, influence and inspire a team of stakeholders
- Highly developed interpersonal skills to communicate highly complex/sensitive information succinctly and in difficult environments
- Experience in developing effective working relationships with proven ability to manage conflict
- Excellent level of planning and organisational skills with an ability to solve complex challenges
- Capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Trust HQ, St Georges site
Long Leys Road
Lincoln
LN1 1FS
United Kingdom
