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?

• Relationship Building – This role will involve working with stakeholders of varying levels of seniority from across the business so building strong relationships will be critical to the success
• Influencing & Negotiating – In driving our SIAM maturity plans and the evolution of the model, the ability to influence stakeholders and negotiate positions will be key to ensure that you can get everyone aligned behind one approach
• Planning & Executing – Working within a very busy landscape, the success of any delivery hinges on the ability to plan in clearly and drive the execution of the plan so these skills will be used on a daily basis in this role
• Problem Solving – To drive successfully through the complex landscape we are working in, the successful candidate will need to have a calm approach to issue resolution and will need to keep a focus on working through issues to achieve key goals
• Continuous Improvement Mindset – This will be needed to drive the optimisation of the SIAM model, working with wider stakeholders to look at ongoing opportunities to improve

What experience are we looking for?

• Experience in an Operational IT Leadership Role
• Experience of managing contracts and services across multiple providers
• Qualifications in ITIL 4 or ITIL 5
• Experience of IT process optimisation and automation
• Experience working in a DevOps/Product Delivery model

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.

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.