Senior Commercial Manager

Job summary

Hybrid Role

Join NHS Blood & Transplant (NHSBT) in a vital Commercial role, where you'll be responsible for ensuring compliance with Public Procurement Regulations by sourcing, procuring, negotiating and managing a variety of business-critical, complex commercial contracts and framework agreements.

You'll be a vital part of a supportive team, in an organisation that values innovation, teamwork, and professional growth. Your work will not only contribute to our mission of saving and improving lives but also offer a rewarding career path with the potential for development and recognition in a fast-paced and meaningful setting. This role is perfect for someone with a background in complex procurement, looking for an impactful, dynamic career within the NHS, contributing to our life-saving work. Join us to make a difference, embodying the essence of giving and the gift of life.

You will undertake an extensive induction and training programme and receive ongoing development to support you in your role and achieving your career ambitions.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will be part of a dedicated team of procurement professionals responsible for negotiating and managing a variety of business critical commercial contracts and framework agreements for the provision of goods and services to NHSBT. Your responsibilities include:

• Working closely with suppliers and internal directorate customers to manage the contracting process end to end, to ensure that all interested parties needs are met.
• Delivering contracts that are robust, free from risk, legally binding and importantly cost efficient and effective.
• Ensuring that NHSBT can demonstrate to the public through the scrutiny of internal and external audit, that it obtains best value for money on its contracted non-pay expenditure and achieves savings targets.
• Ensuring compliance with Public Procurement Regulations including the legally mandated OJEU Directives and NHSBT Standing Orders and Financial Instructions.
• Co-ordinating and planning your own work and the work of staff responsible to you via a work programme.

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need. Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too.

Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever. You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.