Senior Commercial Lead - Corporate Services

NHS Blood and Transplant; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Commercial Lead to spearhead their Corporate Services team. This pivotal role involves managing a diverse portfolio of supplier contracts while ensuring compliance and delivering innovative commercial solutions. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in strategic sourcing and procurement, with a passion for leadership and exceptional people management skills. Join a dedicated team where your contributions will directly impact the quality of services provided to the community, and enjoy a rewarding career with comprehensive benefits, including generous holiday allowances and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

27 Days Holiday Plus Bank Holidays

Comprehensive Induction and Training Programme

Competitive Pension Scheme

Professional Development Opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in leading strategic planning and implementation processes.
• Strong background in procurement and contract negotiation.
• Proven ability to manage high-risk projects with significant expenditure.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Commercial Team for supplier contracts.
• Develop long-term strategic plans for sourcing and procurement.
• Enhance supplier relationships to achieve performance standards.

Skills

Market Shaping

Strategic Sourcing

Procurement Strategy

Contract Management

Supplier Relationship Management

Time Management

Decision Making

Problem Solving

Leadership

Education

Master's Degree or Equivalent Experience

CIPS Professional Diploma Level 6

Tools

Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams, PowerPoint)

Job description

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Job Summary

You will lead, manage, and be accountable for a Commercial Team with responsibility for approximately 100 supplier contracts within the corporate services category, including Estates, HR, Finance, Soft FM, and Hard FM. You will ensure that all resources are focused on delivering sustainable, quality, and innovative commercial solutions in compliance with legislation.

As the leader of the corporate services commercial team, you will need to bring a vision, a passion for delivery, and strong people management skills. You will provide professional expertise to formulate, develop, and implement long-term strategic plans for the categories and contracts managed by the team. Additionally, you will actively engage and collaborate with internal stakeholders, suppliers, and public sector bodies to support our commercial strategies and their effectiveness.

You will continuously improve the commercial service delivered to stakeholders, enhance expertise, and build the capability and potential of the function. You will take a pivotal role in delivering significant cost improvements in a creative, innovative, and sustained manner to help us meet our financial objectives.

Main duties of the job

Responsibilities

In this role you will support in the delivery of the planning & organisation, day to day operations, financial, quality targets and vision of the Commercial directorate within NHSBT .Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading and supporting category strategies, market shaping, strategic sourcing, and procurement.
• Developing long-term strategic plans for the sourcing, procurement, and delivery of contracts.
• Developing and managing a portfolio of larger high-risk projects, typically with a high level of expenditure and/or complexity.
• Developing working relationships with key suppliers and ensuring excellent performance standards are achieved in line with contractual requirements and stakeholders’ expectations.
• Line managing the team and developing a culture that encourages open communication and ensures that people are managed through effective teamwork, leadership, and motivation across the team and wider Commercial function.
• Managing operational multi-stranded budgets for products and services within their category group.
• Leading and supporting in the preparation of complex tender documents, inviting tender bids from suppliers, including the selection of suppliers following pre-qualification analysis of supplier information and pre-tender commercial discussions.
  
  
  

Experience

• Experience of Market Shaping, Strategic Sourcing, Procurement Strategy, and Contract Management including negotiation of significant value contracts and/or significant risk contracts, and disputes at a senior level.
• Supply chain management and supplier relationship management experience.
• The ability to lead strategic planning and implementation processes.
• Time Management skills and the ability to meet deadlines.
• Experience in using electronic sourcing and purchasing systems.
• Change management experience including awareness of impacts on Quality when implementing new contracts.
• Decision making and problem-solving skills.
• Leadership and management experience
• Experience of working with information technology using Microsoft Office packages (Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams and PowerPoint).
  
  
  

Qualifications And Training

• Educated to Master’s level or equivalent experience in a professional purchasing area.
• CIPS Professional Diploma Level 6 or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrates commitment to own continued professional development (CPD).
  
  
  

Please view the attached recruitment profile which is a summary of the detailed Job Description and Person Specification for the full personal attributes we require for the role. You will need to demonstrate these throughout the recruitment process.

About Us

At NHS Blood and Transplant, we’re incredibly proud of the many talented people who come together every day to make our organisation the very best it can be. We have clearly defined values that are centred around offering exceptional care to our donors and their families. We take care of each other too and we focus on building our expertise so we can change lives, provide quality support and offer fulfilling careers.

It’s an opportunity to contribute to a unique team as part of a service that saves lives 365 days a year. We offer brilliant benefits including 27 days of holiday (plus bank holidays), a comprehensive induction and training programme, and competitive pension scheme.

We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with and positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality.

Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever.

This vacancy will close at 23:59 on Wednesday 14th May 2025.

If shortlisted, you will be required to attend the Government Commercial Function assessment centre (ADC). This will be a one-day process on Friday 6th June 2025 (subject to confirmation) and further guidance on this is attached.

Interviews are anticipated to be held week of 9th June, after the ADC assessment – subject to confirmation.

To have an informal conversation, please contact Lola Odumosu, Executive Assistant (Commercial) at [e-mail].

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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