NHS Supply Chain
Market Researcher

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Job Title: Market Researcher
Function: Research and Insight Team
Location: Hybrid Worker – Expectation is two days per week on site at our Nottingham office
Contract type: 9 Month Fixed Term Contract
Salary: Offered on a starting salary of £ 47,874
Closing Date: Wednesday 16th September
NHS Supply Chain currently has an opportunity for a Market Researcher to join our team during an exciting period of transformation, working to make it easier for the NHS to put patients first.
We are looking for a curious, analytical, and commercially minded Market Researcher to join our team. The successful candidate will design and deliver research projects that generate meaningful customer, healthcare landscape, and wider innovation research insights. They will work closely with stakeholders across the business to understand key challenges, identify opportunities, and turn data into actionable recommendations that support decision-making and business growth.
Every day you will…
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of research projects, from design and fieldwork through to analysis, reporting, and presentation.
- Act as a trusted research expert, advising colleagues on robust and effective research approaches, particularly qualitative methodologies.
- Design the most appropriate research methods to answer business challenges and information needs.
- Work closely with teams across NHS Supply Chain to identify, develop, and deliver research and insight opportunities.
- Transform complex findings into engaging stories and actionable insights for a wide range of audiences.
- Build strong relationships with colleagues and external stakeholders to support collaborative working.
- Contribute to the wider research programme, delivering impactful insights at both operational and strategic levels.
- Lead and nurture our cross-organisational research community, helping to establish and promote best practice and quality standards.
- Chair and coordinate our external research seminar series, bringing in expert voices and fresh perspectives on topics that matter to our organisation.
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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.


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What skills will help you thrive in this role?
- Significant experience working in a research or insight environment. Experience of conducting B2B research.
- Strong expertise in designing and delivering qualitative and quantitative research projects.
- A deep understanding of research methodologies, frameworks, and best practices.
- Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to identify meaningful insights from a range of research and data sources.
- Confident engaging, influencing, and presenting to a variety of stakeholders, including senior leaders.
- Experience using research platforms and tools such as Qualtrics, NVivo, or similar.
- Outstanding written, verbal, and storytelling skills.
- Strong collaboration skills and a commitment to building partnerships across teams.
- A proactive, positive approach and a genuine willingness to get stuck in and support colleagues.
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.
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