Regional Lead in Nottingham

NHS Supply Chain is seeking seven Regional Leads to join us at a pivotal moment in our Supply Chain Modernisation Programme, an ambitious transformation designed to enable smarter, simpler, more connected care. This is a unique opportunity for colleagues working within NHS Trusts to shape a nationally significant programme, ensuring that the future of NHS supply chain is designed with, and for, the organisations it serves. If you have experience of the day‑to‑day challenges of supply chain in a Trust setting and have seen where variation, inefficiency or workarounds could be improved this role offers the chance to influence meaningful change at scale.

Responsibilities

• Act as the key link between your region’s Trusts and the national programme ensuring frontline perspectives are heard, understood, and reflected in decision‑making.
• Draw on your operational experience to identify variation, challenges, and opportunities across Trusts, turning real‑world insight into meaningful improvements at a national level.
• Represent your region in Clinical and Customer Working Groups and programme workshops, bringing the voice of Trusts into the design of future supply chain solutions.
• Work closely with colleagues across your region to prepare for and support workshops, ensuring local expertise and practical realities shape the conversation.
• Help design and embed consistent processes and data standards that reduce variation and support more efficient, reliable ways of working.
• Support Trusts through change, driving readiness, implementation, and adoption of new processes, and helping teams transition into improved ways of working.

Qualifications

• Deep, practical experience of supply chain and/or procurement within an NHS Trust setting.
• Strong understanding of Acute or Non‑Acute environments (ideally both), with insight into the challenges and variation across systems.
• Experience contributing to process improvement, standardisation, or transformation initiatives within your organisation or system.
• The ability to work across organisational boundaries, building trusted relationships and influencing stakeholders at all levels.
• Credibility with both operational teams and senior leaders, with the confidence to represent and advocate for your region.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills, able to turn complex national direction into clear, actionable plans for local delivery.
• A structured, thoughtful approach to gathering and interpreting insight, with the ability to synthesise feedback and articulate it clearly to inform decision‑making.
• Ability to build and maintain a strong network of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) across your region, promoting collaboration, knowledge sharing, and early risk identification.

Benefits

• Hybrid working opportunities, giving you the flexibility to work collaboratively in the office and remotely.
• Annual bonus schemes, long service, and colleague recognition awards.
• In‑house training, support, and access to external qualifications to maximise your potential.
• 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%).
• Flexible Benefits Scheme including 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.
• Access to many discounts from the Blue Light Card to NHS Discounts.

Regions

• Midlands
• South West
• South East
• North West
• North East & Yorkshire
• London
• East of England

About NHS Supply Chain

Our role is to support the NHS to save lives and improve health. We are a part of the NHS family, providing supply of healthcare products, services and food across England and Wales. We serve every NHS Trust, operating a national network of distribution centres, managing more than a thousand suppliers and delivering more than 8,000,000 orders each year to more than 17,000 locations.

Commitment to Inclusion

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, and if this role sounds like the right next step but your experience doesn’t match perfectly, we encourage you to still apply. We reserve the right to close any vacancy from further submissions when we have received sufficient applications. Please apply promptly if you wish to be considered for this role.