Programme Business Architect in Nottingham

NHS Supply Chain currently has an opportunity to join our team during an exciting period of transformation, working to make it easier for the NHS to put patients first. The aim of the role is to act as a connector between programme strategy, delivery streams and operational functions, ensuring a unified, coherent and integrated business design across the organisation.

Every day you will …

• Develop and maintain a programme‑wide business design and capability model, ensuring alignment across people, process, systems and data into a cohesive future operating model.
• Provide programme‑level design integration and oversight, identifying cross‑stream impacts, informing sequencing, and supporting strategic decision‑making.
• Maintain a connection with the Central Business Architecture team, sharing best practice, aligning on relevant standards and ensuring architectural discipline is applied in a way that fits SCM’s delivery needs.
• Assess business readiness and operational impact, working closely with change, delivery and wider teams to ensure future‑state designs are realistic, understood and adoptable.
• Lead and develop Business Analysts, ensuring high‑quality analysis, process mapping, requirements definition and design assurance aligned with programme expectations.

What can we offer you?

• Hybrid working opportunities, giving you the flexibility to work collaboratively in the office and remotely.
• We recognise our employees’ hard work and contributions with annual bonus schemes, long service, and VIP colleagues awards.
• 27 days holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase an additional 5 days.
• We are dedicated to your development, through in-house training, support, and access to external qualifications to maximise your potential.
• A focus on your well-being offering 1 day of paid well‑being leave and free access to the 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme.
• Generous pension scheme (with us contributing 12% when you contribute 6%).
• 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.
• 2 days of paid volunteering leave allowing you to give back to your community.
• Access to many discounts from the Blue Light Card to NHS Discounts.

NHS Supply Chain, who are we?

Our role is to support the NHS to save lives and improve health. We are a part of the NHS family, and our role is to source, deliver and supply healthcare products, services and food for NHS trusts and healthcare organisations across England and Wales. We serve every NHS Trust and operate a national network of distribution centres, managing relationships with more than a thousand suppliers and delivering more than 8,000,000 orders each year to more than 17,000 locations. Doing all of this on behalf of the NHS gives NHS staff more time to focus on their main priority of providing excellent patient care.

What skills will help you thrive in this role?

• Stakeholder Management/Relationship Building – Operating horizontally across the programme, supporting the Head of Business Design & Integration and collaborating with the wider team.
• Significant experience in business architecture, business design or enterprise level transformation within large, complex transformation programmes; with demonstrable experience in roadmap development and transitioning into new operating models.
• Expertise in capability‑based planning, operating model development and cross‑functional process mapping.
• Strong understanding of ERP, digital systems and data architecture and how these underpin operational processes.
• Navigating complex dependencies – this will help you with ensuring cohesion across future‑state designs.

Want to develop your career with the NHS Supply Chain? Then apply below or reach out for an informal discussion about the role in confidence by emailing us at Careers@supplychain.nhs.uk.

Our Inclusive Commitment

At NHS Supply Chain, we are committed to building an inclusive environment where difference is not only valued, but celebrated, giving everyone the opportunity to thrive in their career. Developing our people is key to our success, so if this role sounds like the right next step in your career but your experience doesn’t match perfectly with the job advert, we encourage you to still apply.

Struggling to complete our application form, and require additional support? Reach out to our Talent Acquisition team at careers@supplychain.nhs.uk who will be happy to help you with alternative ways to apply.

We reserve the right to close any vacancy from further submissions when we have received sufficient applications from which to make a shortlist. Please apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.