Job summary
- Main area
- Procurement
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (37.5 hours per week)
- Job ref
- 151-LC329
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Frimley Park Hospital
- Town
- Frimley
- Salary
- £57,888 - £64,880 per annum including HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Supply Chain Manager
Band 8a
Job overview
We are seeking a dynamic and forward-thinking Supply Chain Manager to 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.
Main duties of the job
As a key member of our team, your responsibilities will include:
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Leading the Supply Chain and Materials Management teams across the Trust, ensuring service excellence and best practice.
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Overseeing the operation, development and continuous improvement of our inventory management system, maximising its efficiency and value.
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Driving performance to meet service standards and objectives, managing supply chain projects in line with the Trust’s procurement strategy.
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Developing innovative supply chain initiatives to enhance processes, reduce waste, and deliver long-term value for money.
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Establishing and nurturing strong relationships with clinical departments, suppliers, and stakeholders to ensure seamless service delivery.
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Acting as a subject matter expert in supply chain operations, providing leadership, expertise and guidance to your team.
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Ensuring full compliance with relevant legislation, policies, and NHS guidelines.
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Solving complex challenges and making informed, strategic decisions to improve service delivery.
Working for our organisation
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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Advanced IT skills
- Educated to A level or equivalent
- Evidence of related CPD in the last 24 months
- Evidence of MS office suite
Desirable criteria
- Member of CIPS or equivalent
- NVQ Level 3 Logistics Operations Management
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive Management experience in Operational Supply Chain in a hospital or Healthcare related environment
- Previous Logistics and Supply Chain experience within a complex organisation
- Experience of working as part of a change management process
- Analysis of statistical data and present clear and concise reports across the organisation
- Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Working with stock management and purchasing systems
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with senior staff and clinicians
- Experience of staff recruitment and performance appraisals
- Experience of project management
- Evidence of line managing large teams of people
- Delivering training and education
Skills/Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Working knowledge of NHS Supply chain software & concepts
- Basic principles of effective supervision and motivation
- Detailed knowledge of inventory management processes
- Negotiation skills and the ability to effectively communicate/influence at all levels
- Good interpersonal skills and the ability to forge effective professional relationships
- Leadership, motivational and teamworking skills
- Self motivated and proactive with ability to work on own initiative and make difficult decisions
Desirable criteria
- Report generation and data manipulation techniques
- Strong and accurate IT skills particularly spreadsheets and databases
- Understanding of Standing Financial Instructions
- Previous experience using Omnicell inventory management system
- Previous experience using eProc and eFin
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Gemma-Louise Broadbent
- Job title
- Associate Director of Procurement
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0771708604
- Additional information
If you would like to have an informal chat about the role please contact:
Gemma- Louise Broadbent, Head of Procurement, 0771708604 [email protected]
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