Head of Procurement | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Mansfield

Join our dynamic Finance and Procurement Department making a real impact in specialist healthcare services. We are excited to announce an exceptional leadership opportunity for an experienced Procurement professional to lead and support our organisation. As Head of Procurement, you will play a pivotal role in the senior Finance leadership team delivering strategic procurement support to services that touch lives daily.

This is a pivotal role for the Trust and East Midlands Ambulance Service, involving developing and overseeing our procurement strategy and supply chain processes and ensuring compliance and value for money across all purchasing activities. The successful applicant will build on shaping and continuously improving our procurement functions, working with colleagues internally and system wide, enhancing supply chain efficiency, ensuring we realise optimal value across all supply chain activities and continue to develop a culture of excellence within the team.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £26.40 (standard) or £54.40 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first 2 months of employment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. An annual fee of £16 per year applies.

The Head of Procurement will contribute to the delivery of Nottinghamshire Healthcare and East Midlands Ambulance Service strategy and annual priorities, in particular in relation to value and sustainability. Responsibilities include:

• Leading the procurement function for both Trusts.
• Providing professional leadership and advice ensuring adherence and alignment to the Trust's policies and procedures and procurement law.
• Representing the Trust locally, regionally and nationally to help derive forward procurement and supply chain initiatives through partnership.
• Facilitating a continuous quality improvement approach within the department, ensuring our procedures and systems deliver an effective, high quality and integrated service.

Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.

As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire, we are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health. We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank. Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.

We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network, Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust. If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!

The postholder has the lead role in the management and development of the procurement function, its staff, its work and performance against national and locally agreed targets. Responsibilities include:

• Accountability for the effective deployment of human, physical and financial resources.
• Responsibility for the department budget.
• Lead responsibility for all procurement processes, ensuring that purchasing policies and financial procedures are in line with NHS and statutory guidelines.
• Developing and implementing Trust wide policies and performance arrangements to secure effective implementation across all areas of the trust.
• Accountability for the annual trust procurement audits and ensuring significant assurance is achieved.
• Undertaking in depth analysis of highly complex procurement opportunities and exercising judgement in assessing a range of options.
• Identifying and securing the active involvement and engagement of sponsors, key stakeholders including external agencies and key suppliers.
• Ensuring collaborative working and the use of modern management of change processes to overcome resistance to change and ensure successful outcomes.
• Identifying, developing, planning and implementing local long term strategies and programmes that deliver national policy and strategy.
• Leading responsibility for developing, implementing, reviewing and monitoring the Trust Procurement Strategy.
• Advising the Trust on the interpretation of national policy and strategy and recommending action to ensure implementation and delivery within the Trust.
• Producing monthly reports and key procurement performance indicators for internal and external reporting.
• Using KPI information to monitor and improve performance of the operational function.
• Leading for the Trust on all procurement returns and providing purchasing information to the Executive Team and Board of Directors.
• Maintaining and developing the e-procurement system, Atamis and other systems, ensuring staff compliance with Trust procurement procedures.
• Ongoing development of purchasing systems and processes to improve efficiencies through new technologies.
• Identifying, developing and delivering appropriate education, training and development programmes to managers within the trust.
• Maintaining an understanding of best practice nationally and internationally to support the strategic development of healthcare.
• Leading on Trust-wide initiatives in key policy areas, including annual efficiency requirements.

This advert closes on Sunday 16 Nov 2025.