NHS Procurement 2024

Simon has enjoyed a 32-year career in NHS Procurement working in all the key functions and across Hospitals/Community Services in the North West.

In 2003 Simon commenced working in Manchester undertaking a number of senior roles that culminated in his current appointment at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust- the Trust was created on 1st October 2017 after the merger of two predecessor Trusts.

Simon leads the Trust Procurement and E-Commerce Department, a 100 strong Team that manages all non-pay spend across the Trust (£600m). The Department provides a modern and fully integrated Purchase to Pay service including an Accounts Payable function. An annual £8m Savings Programme has been delivered since 2009/10, and non-pay efficiency is an important part of the Trust’s financial plans.

He became a Member of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply in 1990. Simon is Chairman of both the Greater Manchester Provider Trusts Procurement Group and a member of the Shelford Procurement Directors Group.

He has been a member of the HCSA all his career and was Chairman 2013-2015.

Experienced Director Of Procurement with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital & health care industry. Skilled in Procurement, Business Process Improvement, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Stakeholder Management, and Supply Chain Management. Strong purchasing professional with a MEng focused in Manufacturing Sciences and Engineering from University of Strathclyde.

EDI - Business Partner , NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board. Passionate about personalisation, inclusion & independent living.

My personal motto is create, communicate, lead and inspire to achieve excellent outcomes. I have a track record of delivering successful results, engaging and getting the best out of others and developing a positive, innovative and solution-focused culture within a team.

I have more than 30 years’ experience in project management. Fifteen years of which were spent in managing United Nations agencies funded health and other development projects in both urban and rural communities. I am highly skilled in conceptualising and developing programmes and projects which led to consultancies with among others the World Bank - Economic Development Institute. I have produced project proposals and business cases which were funded by both International and National funding agencies

Having built up a career in the fields of Environmental Management and Sustainability, over 17 years in the construction and manufacturing sectors, in 2019 I decided I needed a fresh perspective, aligned with my personal sense of purpose and jumped headlong into the Health Care sector. What a time and place to jump!

For me Sustainability has always been much more than a job, it is the personal choices, and values I live and the recognition of the interconnected ecosystem all life resides in. It is a core part of who and what I am.

Proactive Procurement Director with a strong transformation track record. Enjoys cross functional discussions to drive improvements and build agile solutions, with clear Value for Money outcomes.

An experienced manager/consultant with a wide range of IT Programme Management, transformation and change management experience developed through roles in the Private and Public sector. Specialising in delivering benefits through the adoption of cloud based procurement and commercial software applications.

Currently delivering the Health Commercial System across 340 UK Health public sector and NHS organisations - £47bn pipeline, £153bn active contracts, 12k buyers and 59k bidders and growing every day.

• Leading the adoption of Atamis/Salesforce system for Pipeline, Tender Management and Contract Management across Health System including NHS.
• Supporting collaboration and the development of the Integrated Care System model of procurement through Atamis adoption across 42 ICSs and 215 NHS trusts.
• Providing better quality live information for procurement and finance teams to enable data-driven commercial insights, decisions and activities.
• Reducing administration costs through automated data collection and reporting and by removing the need to train multiple users across different systems.
• Enabling easier adoption of changes to procurement regulation and policy that can be made once for the whole Atamis system.
• Making it easier for suppliers, especially SMEs, to do business with health system, as they will only need to interact with one system.
• Improving visibility across the system, which will give the NHS opportunities to leverage its buying power.
• Increasing transparency and sharing of data to help drive resilience and value for money for patients and the taxpayer.

Lee is an experienced international executive, bringing a broad suite of experiences and capabilities from his career across financial services, aviation, engineering, retail, health and the wider public sector. Those experiences in a wide range of predominantly change and innovation roles provide Lee with a unique perspective that through his strategic transformational leadership enables him to push the status quo and quickly understand the business to make a sustainable impact. Lee is an authentic leader who leads with a value focus to build trusted and enduring relationships.

Throughout his career, Lee has been drawn to roles where the underlying business or team requires transforming or repositioning, evolving the organisational culture and operating model to attain the highest standards whilst building solid foundations for future growth. Lee possesses excellent stakeholder management skills and is skilled at navigating complex organisations. Lee is a strong tactician with a reputation for running at problems, equally able to operate at a strategic level and flex his approach between the two, as the business requires. More recently, at the NHS Lee led the establishment of the multi award winning shared Procurement service for North West London across England’s largest Independent Care System Improving service user experience, access and population health outcomes through effective procurement.

Paul Stone is a Product Strategist at FlowForma, the leading provider of no-code process automation tools. Paul uses his in-depth product and healthcare sector experience to support FlowForma’s healthcare clients in achieving operational efficiencies and effectiveness. Paul is committed to empowering citizen developers to rapidly digitalise their processes and manage them smarter and faster, without using any software code.