Supply Chain Manager | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust; Frimley; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional NHS healthcare provider is in search of a Supply Chain Manager to oversee materials management across three main hospital sites. This role involves leading teams, enhancing inventory systems, and driving operational improvements aligned with NHS values. The ideal candidate should have strong leadership and communication skills, along with proven experience in a busy healthcare setting. This is an on-site role with regular travel between hospitals.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in supply chain management within the NHS or healthcare sector.
• Strong leadership capabilities with a track record of managing teams.
• Excellent problem-solving skills in complex service delivery environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Supply Chain and Materials Management teams across the Trust.
• Oversee inventory management and drive performance to meet service standards.
• Develop innovative supply chain initiatives to enhance processes.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Project Management

Strategic Decision Making

Job description

We are seeking a dynamic and forward-thinking Supply Chain Managerto lead and deliver a high-quality, efficient, and cost-effective materials management service across our three main hospital sites.

This on-site role requires regular weekly travel between Frimley Park, Wexham Park, and Heatherwood Hospitals.

As part of our Supply Chain function, you’ll be pivotal in ensuring the smooth delivery of clinical and non-clinical supplies to support outstanding patient care across all departments.



As a key member of our team, your responsibilities will include:
• Leading the Supply Chain and Materials Management teams across the Trust, ensuring service excellence and best practice.
• Overseeing the operation, development and continuous improvement of our inventory management system, maximising its efficiency and value.
• Driving performance to meet service standards and objectives, managing supply chain projects in line with the Trust’s procurement strategy.
• Developing innovative supply chain initiatives to enhance processes, reduce waste, and deliver long-term value for money.
• Establishing and nurturing strong relationships with clinical departments, suppliers, and stakeholders to ensure seamless service delivery.
• Acting as a subject matter expert in supply chain operations, providing leadership, expertise and guidance to your team.
• Ensuring full compliance with relevant legislation, policies, and NHS guidelines.
• Solving complex challenges and making informed, strategic decisions to improve service delivery.







Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties

We’re seeking an experienced and motivated individual with excellent leadership and communication skills. You’ll be confident managing people, projects and systems in a busy NHS environment, and capable of driving operational improvements aligned with Trust values.

By joining us, you’ll play a key role in supporting front-line services while advancing your career in NHS supply chain leadership.

For further details or an informal discussion, please get in touch. We welcome your interest and look forward to hearing from you.

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details.


This advert closes on Sunday 27 Jul 2025