Digital Contract Manager in Doncaster

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Digital Contract Manager to join the Digital Business Management team within Digital Transformation. The team manages around 150 contracts, with plans to consolidate them over the next year to ensure best value. The successful candidate will bring strong technical knowledge to manage digital contracts effectively, holding regular review meetings with suppliers, and engaging with key Trust stakeholders such as IAOs, system managers, technical leads, and clinical and administrative teams to ensure contracts meet KPIs and SLAs.

We are seeking someone enthusiastic, adaptable, committed and confident working with staff at all levels, able to manage competing priorities and remain calm under pressure. If you’re motivated by supporting frontline teams with digital tools and improving how we deliver care, we’d love to hear from you. As part of the Digital team, you will support the Digitising Health Records programme and work on contracts that enhance patient safety, quality and staff experience, helping us develop efficient, modern, paper-light processes.

In this hands-on role, you’ll work with clinical teams, digital colleagues and Supplier Deployment Teams to implement digital solutions, streamline workflows and embed sustainable change within a supportive, forward-thinking environment. The successful candidate will be based at Doncaster but may work across any DBTH site, with occasional flexibility required depending on service needs.

Main duties of the job:

• The team oversees around 150 contracts, with plans to consolidate them over the next year to ensure best value.
• The successful candidate will bring strong technical knowledge to manage contracts effectively, holding regular supplier review meetings and engaging with IAOs, system managers, technical leads, and clinical and administrative teams to ensure delivery against KPIs and SLAs.
• We’re looking for someone enthusiastic, adaptable and committed—confident working with staff at all levels, able to manage competing priorities and remain calm under pressure.
• If you’re motivated by helping frontline teams adopt digital tools and improving how care is delivered, we’d love to hear from you.
• As part of the Digital team, you’ll support the Digitising Health Records programme and work on contracts that enhance patient safety, quality and staff experience, contributing to efficient, modern, paper-light processes.
• In this hands-on role, you’ll work with clinical teams, digital colleagues and Supplier Deployment Teams to introduce digital solutions, streamline workflows and embed sustainable change within a supportive, forward-thinking environment.

Working for our organisation:

DBTH is one of Yorkshire’s leading acute trusts, serving a population of more than 440,000. Our services are based over three main hospital sites and several additional services employing over 7,000 colleagues.

We have a comprehensive framework of behaviours that guide us in our daily working lives; these form the DBTH Way. We pride ourselves on our commitment to the values of We Care and the DBTH Way builds upon these foundations, providing clarity on what it means to embody these values in our everyday interactions.

As an organisation that supports flexible working, we will consider flexible arrangements where possible to accommodate services and staff. If you need flexibility, speak to us about what might work for the service and you.

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applicants from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including those with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.

Benefits include:

• Extensive learning opportunities
• NHS Pension Scheme
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Comprehensive health and wellbeing support
• NHS Car Lease schemes and salary sacrifice
• Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping and finance through external providers

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

Please see attached to the advert a job description and person specification for further details. If your application is successful you will be required to present original certificates of qualifications listed in the person specification under essential.

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Person specification:

Knowledge & Experience:

• Proven experience of digital contract management.
• Conversant with information management and technology.
• Demonstrate solid achievement in their current role.
• Ability to review and contribute to the writing of contracts.
• Ability to negotiate income and expenditure digital contracts to the benefit of the Trust.
• Experience of ICT procurement within the NHS.
• Experience of carrying out procurements from conception to evaluation and implementation.

Qualifications & Training:

• Educated to degree level in management or ICT subject or equivalent qualification or equivalent experience.
• Must hold CIPS Level 4 with active professional registration.
• Demonstrate evidence of continuing professional development.
• Negotiation Training.
• ITIL foundation.

Personal Attributes & Skills:

• Proven ability to operate/think laterally and work on own initiative.
• Knowledge of public sector procurement and contracts.
• Ability to deal with highly complex, sensitive information of a contractual nature.
• Articulate with practised and developed interpersonal communication and presentational skills.
• Creative, innovative and visionary mind set.
• Advanced Keyboard Skills; including Microsoft 365 applications.
• Ability to produce plans to achieve short term and long-term savings.
• Able to prioritise own and teams work within imposed deadlines.
• Have a flexible approach to working and be available to work outside normal hours as and when required.
• Experience of complex evaluation and market and economic analysis.