Procurement Manager

Procurement Manager

Location: Beaconsfield, Oxfordshire (Hybrid with national travel)

At InHealth, we're on a mission to Make Healthcare Better. As the UK's largest specialist diagnostic provider, we support millions of patients every year through our partnerships with the NHS and healthcare organisations nationwide.

We're looking for a highly experienced Procurement Manager to lead our procurement function, developing a culture of change, managing a team of approximately 14 colleagues and driving procurement strategy across all categories and service lines. Reporting to the Director of Procurement, you will play a pivotal role in developing strategies to deliver commercial value, strengthening supplier partnerships, ensuring compliance, and supporting high-quality patient services.

This is a hybrid role, with an expectation of 2-3 days per week based at our Beaconsfield office, alongside national travel as required.

What You Will Do

• Develop and deliver procurement and category strategies aligned to business objectives.
• Lead strategic sourcing, tendering, contract negotiation and supplier management activities.
• Drive cost savings, value improvement initiatives and commercial efficiencies.
• Build strong stakeholder relationships across operational, clinical, finance and leadership teams.
• Manage supplier performance, risk, governance and contract compliance.
• Lead and develop a high-performing procurement team.
• Support procurement transformation, continuous improvement and sustainability objectives.
• Ensure procurement activities comply with relevant regulatory, governance and ethical standards.

About You

You are an experienced procurement leader with a strong commercial mindset and a track record of delivering value within a complex organisation.

You'll bring:

• Significant procurement experience within a complex organisation (£100m+ turnover), with a proven track record of delivering cost savings, value improvement and commercial outcomes.
• Experience leading and developing high-performing teams.
• Strong supplier, contract and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven success delivering cost savings and value improvement programmes.
• Excellent communication, negotiation and influencing abilities.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience managing procurement governance, compliance and risk.
• MCIPS Level 6 qualified (or working towards) and degree educated (or equivalent experience).

Most importantly, you'll share InHealth's values of Trust, Passion, Care and Creativity, helping us continue to deliver outstanding services for patients and partners across the UK.