Senior Project Manager

NHS England; Leeds; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS England is seeking a Senior Project Manager – Commercial to lead significant elements of the Commercial Function’s early work programme and drive delivery across NHS England’s commercial activities. The role collaborates with DDaT, Investment Areas, Regions, providers and suppliers to translate evolving designs into workable capabilities.

The post holder will support mobilisation, governance, and reporting, while guiding multi-project programmes from planning through to mobilisation in a

Responsibilities

• Lead significant elements of the Commercial Function's first-year programme of work and its enduring activity.
• Support the mobilisation of agreed elements of the Commercial Function, including governance forums, reporting routes and ways of working.
• Oversee the lifecycle of commercial programmes with multiple projects and workstreams, including planning, resourcing, reporting on progress and managing risks, issues and dependencies.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of the Programme commercial strategy aligned with NHS England commercial strategy, Government Commercial Function policy, and applicable DDaT, cyber and data standards.
• Assist major procurement activity, including the Delivery Partner procurement, route to market, managing the process to timetable, and supporting evaluation, award and mobilisation.

Job description

The Senior Project Manager – Commercial is a senior delivery role within the Commercial Function, working in the Commercial team and answerable to the Assistant Director of Commercial. The postholder will lead significant elements of the function’s first-year programme of work and its enduring activity, translating an evolving commercial design into delivered capability. This is a broad role, suited to an experienced project manager with commercial credibility who is comfortable operating with ambiguity in a function that is still being defined, and who can work effectively across NHS England Commercial, DDaT, the Investment Areas, Regions, providers and the supplier market.

Support the mobilisation of agreed elements of the Commercial Function, including the design and embedding of processes, governance forums, reporting routes and ways of working.

Support the whole lifecycle of commercial programmes of work containing multiple projects and workstreams – planning, resourcing, reporting on progress and managing risks, issues and dependencies.

Support the development and implementation of the Programme commercial strategy and its alignment with the wider NHS England commercial strategy, Government Commercial Function policy, and applicable DDaT, cyber and data standards.

Support the assessment of Programme demand and the review of regional plans, working with the Investment Areas and the EPMO to build a consolidated view of the investment pipeline and to identify commercial risks, dependencies and opportunities for aggregation.

Support major procurement activity undertaken on behalf of the Programme, including the Delivery Partner procurement – developing the route to market, scope and requirements, managing the process to timetable, and supporting evaluation, award and mobilisation.

Support the establishment of supplier relationship management activity, including supplier segmentation, market intelligence, price benchmarking and strategic supplier relationships, to improve supply chain resilience and ensure market readiness ahead of regional investment.

NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.

Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms — enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.

In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.

If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Graeme Jeffs Job title: Assistant Director Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07747348021