Senior Procurement Manager

NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board; Kettering; On-site; GBP 67,000 - 77,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board in Kettering is seeking a Senior Procurement Manager to lead and deliver complex procurement across primary, community, mental health and acute care contracts. You will work with the Contracts and Procurement Team to support system transformation and value for money.

The role requires strategic thinking, expert provider selection governance, and strong leadership to develop standards, service specifications and market engagement across LNR regions.

Qualifications

• Educated to master’s level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
• Demonstrable knowledge of the Provider Selection Regime (PSR), public procurement legislation, NHS commissioning arrangements and public sector governance
• Proven and significant leadership experience
• Evidence of post qualifying continuing professional development
• Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
• Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, NHS England and individual provider and commissioning organisations

Responsibilities

• Managing delivery of provider selection and commercial activity within budget and ensuring that intended outcomes, benefits and efficiencies are realised, taking proactive remedial action where necessary to ensure value and effectiveness are maximised for LNR patients.
• Where appropriate ensure provider selection activities are undertaken in line with NHS England guidance, the Provider Selection Regime (PSR), Procurement Act requirements and local governance arrangements, working with system and regional teams as required.
• Managing supplier and provider market engagement activities to ensure procurement strategies reflect service requirements, market capability and organisational objectives.
• Leading and supporting provider selection and procurement activities and participating in the development and implementation of new innovative commissioning and contracting models to support the ICB Cluster in shaping the health and care market to meet anticipated future need.
• Managing and developing staff, ensuring that the team delivers a high quality, professional and responsive procurement and commercial service.

Skills

Provider Selection Regime

Public procurement

Leadership

Contract management

Stakeholder engagement

Negotiation

Education

Master's degree in relevant subject

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Employer NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board Employer type NHS Site Haylock House Town Kettering Salary £66,582 - £77,368 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 05/10/2026 23:59

Senior Procurement Manager

NHS AfC: Band 8b

Our vision for the future of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland’s health and care services is for a positive lifetime of health, wellbeing and care in our community.

Our mission in working together, the reason we do what we do, is to empower positive futures. Wherever we work and whatever our role we all want people in Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland to be able to choose well, stay well, live well.

Each day our values will help to guide our decisions and what is most important to us:

• Our patients and our local population come first
• We work together in an open and accountable way
• We trust, challenge and support each other
• We do what we say we will do.

Job overview

The Senior Procurement Manager will support the Contracts and Procurement Team to deliver system transformation and best practice through delivering the LLR system’s commissioning objectives and Integrated Care Board (ICB) statutory and delegated responsibilities through the planning, negotiation and management of a range of health care contracts across the full portfolio of Primary, Neighbourhood, Community, Mental Health and Learning Disability and Acute Care. community and acute care.

Main duties of the job

• Support delivery of the NHS Strategic Commissioning Framework and LNR Operating Model.
• Acting as the principal link between provider selection activity and the strategic commissioning and business planning functions of the ICB Cluster, ensuring commissioning intentions are translated into compliant and effective procurement, contracting and market management approaches.
• Providing specialist advice and support on provider selection, procurement and commercial matters to commissioners, programme leads and senior stakeholders, ensuring regulatory compliance and alignment with strategic priorities.
• Ensuring that procurement and commercial activity is delivered in a timely way and achieves value for money, service transformation, and reflects best practice – to include development of clear service specifications, service standards, activity levels, quality requirements and outcome measures.

Working for our organisation

Working for our Integrated Care Boards will require you contributing to a shared purpose of improving outcomes for the communities we serve as part of a wider health and social care system. The organisation’s ethos is rooted in integrity, collaboration and accountability, with a strong focus on putting its patient population at the centre of everything it does and delivering services to improve patient outcomes, patient experience and added years of optimised health. As part of the newly formed cluster bringing together NHS Northamptonshire ICB and NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB, staff are expected to work flexibly and collaboratively across organisational boundaries to support a joined-up approach to strategic commissioning and service improvement. There is an expectation of 40% on patch working, with office bases at County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester and Haylock House, Kettering. Staff can choose which office is their primary base for contractual purposes and travel claims.

This role will require a minimum of 2 days ‘on patch’ working in Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland in our 2 main offices or partner sites

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Managing delivery of provider selection and commercial activity within budget and ensuring that intended outcomes, benefits and efficiencies are realised, taking proactive remedial action where necessary to ensure value and effectiveness are maximised for LNR patients.
• Where appropriate ensure provider selection activities are undertaken in line with NHS England guidance, the Provider Selection Regime (PSR), Procurement Act requirements and local governance arrangements, working with system and regional teams as required.
• Managing supplier and provider market engagement activities to ensure procurement strategies reflect service requirements, market capability and organisational objectives.
• Leading and supporting provider selection and procurement activities and participating in the development and implementation of new innovative commissioning and contracting models to support the ICB Cluster in shaping the health and care market to meet anticipated future need.
• Managing and developing staff, ensuring that the team delivers a high quality, professional and responsive procurement and commercial service.

See Person Specification available in full Job Description attached

Person specification

Knowledge, Training and Experience

• Educated to master’s level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
• Demonstrable knowledge of the Provider Selection Regime (PSR), public procurement legislation, NHS commissioning arrangements and public sector governance
• Proven and significant leadership experience
• Evidence of post qualifying continuing professional development
• Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
• Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, NHS England and individual provider and commissioning organisations

Communication Skills

• Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders both internal and external (including outside the NHS) to the organisation, some at very senior level
• Good presentational skills for conveying complex concepts
• Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others

Analytical

• Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues, create solutions and resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery
• Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and make decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution

Planning Skills

• Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time

Autonomy

• Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales
• Interpreting national policy for implementation

Management Skills

• Skills for direct line management and job management
• Skills for delivering results through managing others and using a range of levers in the absence of direct line management responsibility
• Skills for managing relationships with a range of different stakeholders

Physical Skills

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills

Equality and Diversity

• Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of equality of opportunity and diversity taking into account and being aware of how individual actions contribute to and make a difference to the equality agenda

Please note, there is an requirement for all positions at Bands 8b and above to be part of a On Call rota.

All new entrants to the ICB for a permanent position will be subject to a 6 month probationary period. For new entrants appointed on a fixed-term basis, the probationary period is between 1 and 6 months.

We are an equal opportunities employer and all applications will be welcomed and considered regardless of a person’s age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

We welcome applications from disabled candidates and those applicants need only meet the essential criteria to be invited to interview. We will also make any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, including the Job Description and Person Specification, to enable you to pursue your application, providing that you inform us of any special requirements.

L N R ICBs recognise that applicants may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to support the preparation of their application, for example to help with structure, grammar, or presentation. Applicants must ensure that all information submitted is accurate, authentic, and reflects their own skills, experience, and suitability for the role. Any use of AI in preparing an application must be clearly declared and may be explored or challenged as part of the interview and selection process.

If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) system and other secure, internal NHS workforce systems in order to support and manage your recruitment and employment within the organisation.