Overview
Main area: Commercial
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time – 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 990-COM-6865999-E
Site: NHS England Office in Leeds or London
Town: Leeds or London
Salary: £53,755 – £60,504 per annum (exclusive of London Weighting)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 12/01/2025 23:59
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
The Central Commercial Function in the NHS England Commercial Directorate is recruiting an experienced policy lead in the field of sustainable procurement. You will join the team responsible for decarbonising, embedding social value and eradicating modern slavery in healthcare supply chains. This role will support commercial policy making across NHS England as well as the wider NHS across England.
As a key member of the Net Zero and Sustainable Procurement Team, you will be critical to the successful delivery of the Greener NHS Net Zero Supplier Roadmap so the NHS meets its commitment to be net zero by 2045.
You will have a proven track record of engagement with commercial professionals and suppliers, and delivering change projects within large organisations.
You will bring a drive to our activities, and use your experience to educate and advocate for sustainable procurement to ICBs, Trusts, trade bodies, framework providers, supply chain partners and suppliers. You will combine your positive and collaborative engagement approach with your expertise in sustainability to shape policies which ensure current approaches to carbon foot printing in supply chains are built in.
You will join an established, welcoming and supportive team of committed sustainability and procurement professionals with a passion for sustainable supply chains. For more details about the role, team and ambitions of the Greener NHS programme, please get in touch with the contact listed for this role.
Main duties of the job
Extensive experience and skills in sustainability policy, collaboration, communication, stakeholder engagement, project management and policy shaping are essential for this role.
A detailed job description can be found linked within this advert.
The following criteria will be used to short-list this role:
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area – sustainability qualifications or equivalent experience is an essential criteria for this role.
- Subject matter expertise across a number of key areas relating to Sustainable Procurement, including sustainable supply chains.
- Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects.
- Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
- Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As a Senior Net Zero and Sustainable Procurement Manager, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service supporting managers and staff across the NHS on sustainable procurement and decarbonising the NHS supply chain.
You will:
- Drive the strategy for sustainable procurement, supporting and ensuring alignment across the system
- Drive reform and support organisational change and uptake of initiatives that support excellence
- Develop and communicate the vision for the role of innovation, and the development of strategy and operational policies to support this vision
- Engage with key strategic regional and national policy makers to inform development of strategy and policies
- Identify examples of national and international best practice and to ensure that NHS England benefits from relevant innovations in healthcare
- Support development by developing the innovation infrastructure and capacity in organisations
- Develop and champion new initiatives or projects as necessary
- Working with providers and clinical experts to design new training products to support policy implementation
- Provide expertise of best practice methodologies regulatory requirements, policy imperatives, innovation and technological developments and stakeholders knowledge
Person specification
Knowledge/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area – sustainability qualifications or equivalent experience is an essential criteria for this role.
Skills & Experience
Essential criteria
- Subject matter expertise across a number of key areas relating to Sustainable Procurement, including sustainable supply chains
- Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects.
- Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
Values & Behaviours
Essential criteria
Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
Our commitments to you
We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better patient outcomes. We strive to ensure our people feel trusted, valued and empowered. We’re passionate about nurturing and developing people. When you join us, we want you to grow and excel, and we offer many opportunities for you to do that. We welcome your talent and enthusiasm irrespective of age, disability, neuro-divergence, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances. We have policies and procedures to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability and/or who are neuro-divergent.
We welcome applications from disabled candidates. If you meet all the essential criteria, you will be guaranteed an interview.
Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK under the Skilled Worker route are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
If applying for this role on a secondment basis, please make sure you have obtained prior agreement from your current line manager to apply for this position.
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