Regional Lead

Job Title: Regional Lead

Function: Modernisation Programme – Business Integration

Location: Trust Based – with the expectation to travel to Nottingham as required (more information below)

Contract type: Two Year External Secondment from Trust

Salary: HG17 – This will be offered as a secondment opportunity 

NHS Supply Chain is seeking seven Regional Leads to join us at a pivotal moment in our Supply Chain Modernisation Programme, an ambitious transformation designed to enable smarter, simpler, more connected care.

This is a unique opportunity for colleagues working within NHS Trusts to shape a nationally significant programme, ensuring that the future of NHS supply chain is designed with, and for, the organisations it serves. If you have experience of the day-to-day challenges of supply chain in a Trust setting and have seen where variation, inefficiency or workarounds could be improved this role offers the chance to influence meaningful change at scale.

As a Regional Lead, you will be at the heart of this transformation connecting frontline experience with national strategy, influencing design, and supporting the implementation of solutions that will improve consistency, efficiency, and ultimately patient care across the NHS.

We are recruiting Regional Leads across the following regions:

1 x Midlands

1 x South West

1 x South East

1 x North West

1 x North East & Yorkshire

1 x London

1 x East of England

Working alongside the Customer Design Board, which provides strategic governance, Regional Leads play a critical role in ensuring day-to-day connectivity between the programme and NHS Trusts. You will represent your region, bringing together insight from providers and ensuring that frontline realities directly inform national decision-making.

In this role, you will act as the primary link between the programme and NHS Trusts within your region, driving engagement, shaping design, and supporting the implementation and adoption of agreed solutions. You will work closely with Trusts, Clinical and Customer Working Groups, and programme teams to ensure that solutions are practical, deliverable, and aligned to operational needs.

These are full-time, two-year secondment opportunities to input to and gain valuable experience working within a national transformation programme, expanding your influence beyond a single organisation and contributing to NHS-wide improvement.

By joining this programme, you will play a vital role in ensuring that national design is grounded in operational reality, translating strategy into practice and embedding consistent, effective supply chain processes across both acute and non-acute settings.

Every day you will…

• Act as the key link between your region’s Trusts and the national programme ensuring frontline perspectives are heard, understood, and reflected in decision-making
• Draw on your operational experience to identify variation, challenges, and opportunities across Trusts, turning real-world insight into meaningful improvements at a national level
• Represent your region in Clinical and Customer Working Groups and programme workshops, bringing the voice of Trusts into the design of future supply chain solutions
• Work closely with colleagues across your region to prepare for and support workshops, ensuring local expertise and practical realities shape the conversation
• Help design and embed consistent processes and data standards that reduce variation and support more efficient, reliable ways of working
• Support Trusts through change, driving readiness, implementation, and adoption of new processes, and helping teams transition into improved ways of working

What skills will help you thrive in this role?

We are looking for experienced Subject Matter Experts who bring strong operational insight from NHS Trust environments and are motivated to shape improvement at scale.

You will bring:

• Deep, practical experience of supply chain and/or procurement within an NHS Trust setting
• Strong understanding of Acute or Non-Acute environments (ideally both), with insight into the challenges and variation across systems
• Experience contributing to process improvement, standardisation, or transformation initiatives within your organisation or system
• The ability to work across organisational boundaries, building trusted relationships and influencing stakeholders at all levels
• Credibility with both operational teams and senior leaders, with the confidence to represent and advocate for your region
• Excellent analytical and communication skills, able to turn complex national direction into clear, actionable plans for local delivery
• A structured, thoughtful approach to gathering and interpreting insight, with the ability to synthesise feedback and articulate it clearly to inform decision-making
• Build and maintain a strong network of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) across your region, promoting collaboration, knowledge sharing, and early risk identification 

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.

Want to develop your career with the NHS Supply Chain? Then apply below or reach out for an informal discussion about the role in confidence by emailing us at Careers@supplychain.nhs.uk 

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.

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