What can we offer you?

We Want To Reward You For Your Passion, Enthusiasm, And Hard Work So We Offer Much More Than a Competitive Salary

• 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 colleague recognition awards.
• 27 days holiday plus bank holidays
• 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?

Know-how And Experience (technical And Professional Skills)

• Extensive experience leading budgeting, forecasting and financial planning processes in complex organisations.
• The ability to present financial information in a way that brings clarity, highlights what matters and supports decision making at all levels.
• A proven track record of working with senior leaders to support strategic decision‑making, challenge assumptions and drive accountability.
• Experience developing business cases and investment proposals, with sound judgement around value for money, affordability and expected benefits.
• An ability to interpret commercial drivers, external dynamics and organisational strategy and translate them into financial implications and recommendations.
• Strong understanding of financial systems, planning tools, data and reporting technologies, with a focus on improving quality and efficiency.

Transferable skills and behaviours

• Coaching and supporting the development of teams.
• Demonstrates the ability to connect financial performance, organisational priorities and long‑term strategic objectives, shaping thinking at Executive and Board level.
• Shows expertise in distilling complex financial information into clear, compelling and influential insight tailored to senior stakeholders.
• Brings a rigorous, evidence‑based approach to analysis and challenge, driving stronger accountability, improved performance and better decisions.
• Builds trusted, productive relationships across the organisation and enhances financial capability through partnership and coaching.
• Role models authenticity, trust and community, contributing to a positive, high‑performance culture.
• Demonstrates a commitment to improving processes, data quality and insight to elevate organisational financial maturity.

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.

SCCL is a company Registered in England and Wales, with company number 10881715, to act as the management function of the NHS Supply Chain.