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.