Supplier Assurance Manager

Job Title: Supplier Assurance Manager

Function: Commercial

Location: Hybrid arrangement with presence required for 2 days office based.

Contract type: Perm

Salary: £47,874 with the potential to rise to £56,322 over 3 years

Closing Date: 24th July 2026 

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Supplier Assurance Manager; responsible for leading assurance activities within an assigned workstream, ensuring that supplier-related risks, issues, and performance concerns are identified, assessed, escalated, and resolved in a timely and consistent manner. Working collaboratively with internal stakeholders and external suppliers, the role promotes effective assurance practices that support successful delivery, strengthen governance, and drive continuous improvement.

The role focuses on embedding clear, proportionate, and risk-based assurance approaches, providing stakeholders with confidence that appropriate controls, oversight, and mitigation actions are in place. Acting as a trusted partner, the Supplier Assurance Manager helps create positive outcomes by balancing assurance requirements with operational delivery needs.

Every day you will … 

• Lead and deliver a structured portfolio of assurance activities aligned to organisational priorities, ensuring effective oversight across a defined workstream.
• Analyse assurance insights to identify risks, issues and emerging trends, translating findings into actionable improvement plans and timely mitigations.
• Develop, maintain and continuously improve assurance processes, templates and reporting tools to drive consistency, efficiency and effective governance.
• Collaborate across teams to ensure assurance outcomes are clearly understood, owned and addressed, while building trust through a supportive and transparent approach.
• Produce clear dashboards and updates, monitor the effectiveness of assurance actions, and use lessons learned to strengthen future assurance practices and decision-making.

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 colleagues’ recognition awards. 
• 27 days holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase an additional 5 days.
• 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?

• Strong analytical thinking, able to identify root causes and understand impact. 
• Practical problem‑solving, applying proportionate solutions rather than over‑complication. 
• Clear communication and constructive challenge, tailored to different audiences. 
• Builds trust through credibility, consistency and follow‑through. 
• Well organised and delivery focused across multiple activities

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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