Procurement Manager

Role 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.

Previous applicants need not reapply. This post is offered as either a fixed-term or a secondment for 2 years.

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.