Regional Transformation Lead – Supply Chain Modernisation

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.

• 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

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…