Job summary
- Main area
- Procurement
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 190-1738-DIR
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northern General Hospital
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £57,528 - £64,750 pa/pro rata for part time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/07/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 03/08/2026
Employer heading
Strategic IT Procurement Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8a
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
To lead commercial strategy development in IT for areas of non-pay spend. Manage the team responsible for delivery of the strategy to ensure successful delivery. To take responsibility for negotiating high-value tenders and contracts for goods and services, achieving the most advantageous outcomes for Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and Sheffield Children’s Hospital Trusts.
To lead on national, and regional South Yorkshire wide procurement initiatives. To operate effective information systems to ensure accessibility of data that adds value to decision making. To achieve efficiency targets in line with the Trusts formal Cost Improvement Plans.
To take responsibility for the management of senior supplier relationships and contracts and building collaborative relationships to deliver positive outcomes for the Trust. To take responsibility for managing commercial risk in the areas of responsibility. To deputise for the Head of Corporate Procurement.
Main duties of the job
To lead commercial strategy development in IT for areas of non-pay spend. Manage the team responsible for delivery of the strategy to ensure successful delivery.
To take responsibility for negotiating high-value tenders and contracts for goods and services, achieving the most advantageous outcomes for Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and Sheffield Children’s Hospital Trusts.
To lead on national, and regional South Yorkshire wide procurement initiatives. To operate effective information systems to ensure accessibility of data that adds value to decision making.
To achieve efficiency targets in line with the Trusts formal Cost Improvement Plans.
To take responsibility for the management of senior supplier relationships and contracts and building collaborative relationships to deliver positive outcomes for the Trust.
To take responsibility for managing commercial risk in the areas of responsibility. To deputise for the Head of Corporate Procurement.
Working for our organisation
STH Procurement and Logistics team provide a procurement service to the 5 hospital sites in Sheffield including Northern General, Hallamshire, Jessops, Weston Park and Charles Clifford. We also provide a full Procurement service to Sheffield Children’s Hospital Foundation Trust.
We are currently hybrid working with a minimum of 1 day per week office attendance required at our offices at Northern General Hospital in Sheffield, though it is highly likely that you will want to attend site more than this at the start of your role whilst you become embedded.
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (STH) is one of the UK’s biggest providers of integrated hospital and community-based healthcare, providing a comprehensive range of local and tertiary services to the residents of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Mid Yorkshire and North Derbyshire and also some highly specialist services to all parts of England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent level of experience
- Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply Diploma (MCIPS), or degree in business-related subject
- MBA or MSC in Procurement / Supply Chain or equivalent level of experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive direct involvement in Procurement of IT Provisions
- Deep experience of managing complex IT tenders and commercial arrangements
- Experience of influencing decisions and building highly effective relationships
- Experience of market engagement and developing category strategies
- Experience of leading a team working in a hybrid environment to deliver results.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Basic management/supervision training
- Commercial Negotiation training
- Category strategy development skills
- Excellent numerical and analytical skills
- Excellent communications skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and negotiate where necessary
- Ability to prioritise a wide range of competing priorities of own workload and that of the team.
- Knowledge of Contract Law
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of best practice procurement for Corporate products and services in a public sector environment.
- Project Management training
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Excellent attention to detail
- Ability to command the respect and engagement of senior supply side representatives.
- Commercially innovative and creative within the boundaries of good practice and the law.
- Resilient: adaptable to change
- Demonstrable leadership qualities
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Emma Needham
- Job title
- Head of Corporate Procurement
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07984411910
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