Associate Procurement Manager – Healthcare

Overview

In this role you will drive end‑to‑end procurement planning and delivery for major programmes, aligning with client strategies and PMO governance. You will work across multi‑stakeholder environments to ensure timely procurement documentation, business cases, and progress reporting. Your focus is on strategic acquisition workstreams, risk management, and cross‑workstream alignment to deliver value for clients. You will operate in a safety‑conscious, client‑focused culture that emphasizes continuous improvement and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Plan and deliver direct procurements and Acquisition Strategy workstreams
• Maintain tender schedules, timelines, risk registers, and weekly progress reporting
• Coordinate trust engagement and cross‑workstream alignment
• Ensure procurement documents, business cases, and governance submissions are on time
• Support procurement plans for major procurements and resource modelling
• Oversee alignment with PBC25 benefits, integrated plan and client strategies
• Produce weekly progress reporting at programme and procurement level

Key requirements

• Procurement project management experience on major programmes
• Strong PMO, planning and risk management capability
• Knowledge of public contract regulations and compliant procurement processes
• Experience managing multi‑stakeholder environments
• Project management qualification (Prince2/APM) desirable
• MCIPS desirable
• Exposure or understanding of PA23 desirable

• Stakeholder management
• Strong communication
• Analytical thinking
• Procurement planning
• Risk management
• Governance and reporting

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