Commercial Lead

Job Title: Commercial Lead

Function: Indirect Categories

Location: Hybrid – within one of our offices (Nottingham, Alfreton, Daresbury, Sheffield or Wakefield)

Contract type: Permanent

Salary: £65,920 with the potential to rise to £77,553

Closing Date: Friday 19 June 2026.

NHS Supply Chain currently has an opportunity for a Commercial Lead to join our team during an exciting period of transformation, working to make it easier for the NHS to put patients first.

This role is responsible for leading and managing the commercial and operational delivery of the Scan4Safety framework within the IHS Business Unit. It involves end-to-end accountability for framework activities, shaping its future scope, and ensuring alignment with national stakeholders including NHS Trusts, DHSC, and NHSE. The role also plays a key part in managing vendor relationships, mitigating commercial risks, and leading procurement and commercial activities across a range of strategic programmes.

Strong stakeholder engagement, commercial leadership, and the ability to drive complex initiatives are essential to ensure effective delivery and ongoing development of Scan4Safety and related services.

Every day you will… 

• Lead and manage all Scan4Safety commercial-related activities, ensuring effective delivery and oversight.
• Collaborate closely with the IHS Scan4Safety team and support their engagement with NHS Trusts, DHSC, and NHSE.
• Support commercial relationships with IMS providers (vendors) in partnership with the Partner Manager.
• Proactively identify, escalate, and resolve commercial risks with vendors.
• Deliver ongoing commercial support to the IHS Business Unit.
• Provide leadership and support on matters requiring commercial expertise within the IHS team.
• Offer commercial input into solution design to ensure value, viability, and alignment.
• Embed commercial considerations within contingency planning to support resilience and risk mitigation.

What can we offer you?

We want to reward you for your passion, enthusiasm, and hard work so we offer much more than a competitive salary:

• Hybrid working opportunities, giving you the flexibility to work collaboratively in the office and remotely.  
• We recognise our employees’ hard work and contributions with annual bonus schemes, long service, and colleague recognition awards. 
• 27 days holiday plus bank holidays
• We are dedicated to your development, through in-house training, support, and access to external qualifications to maximise your potential.
• A focus on your well-being offering 1 day of paid well-being leave and free access to the 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
• Generous pension scheme (with us contributing 12% when you contribute 6%)
• Access to our Flexible Benefits Scheme, where you can choose from a variety of benefits such as Life Insurance, Critical Illness Cover, Income Protection, Health Cash Plan, Dental Insurance, and additional pension contributions that suit you.
• 2 days of paid volunteering leave allowing you to give back to your community. 
• Access to many discounts from the Blue Light Card to NHS Discounts.

NHS Supply Chain, who are we?

Our role is to support the NHS to save lives and improve health. We are a part of the NHS family, and our role is to source, deliver and supply healthcare products, services and food for NHS trusts and healthcare organisations across England and Wales.

We serve every NHS Trust and operate a national network of distribution centres, managing relationships with more than a thousand suppliers and delivering more than 8,000,000 orders each year to more than 17,000 locations. Doing all of this on behalf of the NHS gives NHS staff more time to focus on their main priority of providing excellent patient care.

What skills will help you thrive in this role?

• Clear accountability and ownership of the Scan4Safety framework
• Ability to define, shape, and evolve wider Scan4Safety frameworks aligned to procured items
• Strong commercial relationship management with vendors and strategic partners
• Expertise in identifying, escalating, and resolving commercial risks
• Proven leadership in procurement and purchasing activities (e.g. PDAs and related solutions)
• Commercial leadership across large-scale programmes (e.g. eDC replacement, FDP, Loan Kit solutions)
• Strategic commercial thinking, with the ability to provide informed input into solution design
• Strong stakeholder engagement across NHS Trusts, DHSC, and NHSE
• Ability to lead commercial activity across multiple concurrent initiatives
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to resolve complex commercial issues

Our Inclusive Commitment

At NHS Supply Chain, we are committed to building an inclusive environment where difference is not only valued, but celebrated, giving everyone the opportunity to thrive in their career. Developing our people is key to our success, so if this role sounds like the right next step in your career but your experience doesn’t match perfectly with the job advert, we encourage you to still apply.

Struggling to complete our application form, and require additional support? Reach out to our Talent Acquisition team at careers@supplychain.nhs.uk who will be happy to help you with alternative ways to apply.

To keep our recruitment process efficient, we may close the advert early if application numbers are high. If you’re interested, we recommend applying promptly.

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