Procurement Manager

NHS National Services Scotland; Bothwell; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in Scotland seeks a Procurement Manager to oversee procurement activities, ensuring value for money and efficient supply chain management. The role involves providing expert advice, collaborating with national procurement panels, and contributing to improvement plans. Ideal candidates will have significant procurement management experience and relevant post-graduate qualifications.

Benefits

27 days annual leave

Membership of NHS Pension Scheme

Occupational health services

Work-life Balance policies

Qualifications

• Significant experience in Procurement Management.
• Ability to work in partnership and improve performance through teamwork.
• Ability to present ideas for change effectively.

Responsibilities

• Manage procurement and commercial activities.
• Provide expert advice to management and budget holders.
• Collaborate with NSS National Procurement.

Skills

Strong technical skills

Excellent communication

Ability to influence

Negotiation skills

Education

Degree level education

Post-graduate qualifications from CIPS

Tools

Procurement Systems

Job description

The Role

Join NHS Lanarkshire as a Procurement Manager and make a significant impact on our healthcare system. In this crucial role, you'll manage procurement and commercial activities across medical/surgical consumables and equipment categories, overseeing regulated tenders, contract implementation/optimisation, and ongoing contract management. Your efforts will support our overarching procurement strategy and ensure maximum value for money and supply chain integrity within Scotland’s third largest health board.

As a Procurement Manager, you'll provide expert advice to management and budget holders, represent NHS Lanarkshire on national Commodity Advisory Panels, and collaborate with NSS National Procurement on contractual matters. You'll also identify potential areas for service expansion and contribute to our improvement plans, including through NHS Scotland Sustainability and Value programmes. If you're passionate about procurement and want to contribute to health and well-being within Lanarkshire, we'd love to hear from you.

NHS Lanarkshire

Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

What we'll need you to bring

• Demonstrate strong technical skills to ensure that theoretical models of high quality procurement are turned into practice
• Educated to degree level and in addition has post-graduate qualifications preferably from the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS) to Diploma Level and Ideally be working towards or will have gained Professional Diploma (Level 6) – MCIPS
• Significant experience in Procurement Management
• Good working knowledge of modern Procurement Systems
• Strong technical skills to ensure that theoretical models of high quality procurement are turned into practice
• High level of competence in the critical leadership behaviours identified as crucial to achieving success within NHS Scotland;

• Working in partnership

  Learning and development

  Caring for staff

  Improving performance through team working

  Communicating effectively

  Improving quality

  Achieving results

• Aptitude for achieving objectives within an area of intensity and competing demands
• Ability to influence other professionals towards considering new ways of working
• Ability of being proactive in presenting ideas for change by reasoned argument and persuasion
• Excellent communication, inter-personal and negotiation skills
• Car driver a full, valid UK/EU/EEA licence

Please note for all vacancies where a driving licence is required this must be a full UK/EU/EEA licence.

It would be great if you also have

• Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply Level 6 (Professional Diploma) or equivalent skills and knowledge gained by experience or training
• Knowledge and experience of how to apply the requirements of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations and Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act is highly desirable
• Experience in procuring healthcare-related products and/or equipment is highly desirable
• Experience using framework agreements and regulated tender processes
• Experience procuring under the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 or UK equivalent
• Knowledge of procurement methodologies within medical consumables/equipment category area
• Knowledge of contract law principles
• Proven ability to be able to engage effectively with stakeholders and senior members of staff internally and externally

Contract type

Permanent

Full time

37 hours

Location and Working Pattern

The office location for the role will be at NHSL Headquarters, Kirklands Hospital, Bothwell, G71 8BB.

The working pattern for this role is; Mon-Fri (office hours) - Remote, hybrid working is available based on; 2 office days per week.

Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.

Looking to find out more?

If you’re looking to find out more, then we would love to hear from you!

Please contact Euan Erskine, General Manager on [e-mail]

For enquiries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contact Gemma Lowe, Recruitment Administrator on [e-mail](Please remember to include the job title and reference number in your email)

Why NHS Lanarkshire?

Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.

Some of NHS Lanarkshire’s benefits include:

• A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service

• A minimum of 8 days of public holidays

• Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)

• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service

• Occupational health services

• Employee counselling services

• Work-life Balance policies and procedures

NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.

Further Information

For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If you’re looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our recruitment webpage.

Additional Information for Applicants

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NHS Lanarkshire is dedicated to building a diverse workforce where everyone can thrive, develop, and succeed based on their skills, knowledge, and talent—regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, or care experience* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

*Care experienced applicants include those who have lived with foster parents, kinship carers, or in residential/secure children’s settings.

Candidates should provide original and authentic responses to all questions within the application form. The use of artificial intelligence (AI), automated tools, or other third-party assistance to generate, draft, or significantly modify responses is strongly discouraged. By submitting your application, you confirm that all answers are your own work, reflect your personal knowledge, skills and experience, and have not been solely produced or altered by AI or similar technologies. Failure to comply with this requirement may result in your application being withdrawn from the application process.

Right to Work within the UK

NHS Lanarkshire has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK.

We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category. UK Visas & Immigration rules are available at www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk.

Prospective applicants are encouraged to check eligibility in advance of applying for vacancies in NHS Lanarkshire.

Please note that all Band 1 and Band 2 posts are not eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route.