Last Updated on 20/10/2023 by Samantha Lewis
NHS Supply Chain, the organisation responsible for the sourcing, delivery and supply of health care products to the NHS and healthcare organisations in England and Wales, has revealed its new executive team structure.
Set to take effect on 1 August 2022, the revised structure will see a rebalancing of executive portfolios and marks the next step in the organisation’s transition to its next Target Operating Model.
According to NHS Supply Chain, the revision of its executive structure “retains the expertise and strengths of our core procurement and supply chain capabilities and enabling functions but reflects our planned transition towards a matrix structure to embed agility and collaboration, customer focus, and accountabilities for growth and innovation across our organisation.”
Under the new structure, Chris Holmes will be assigned the specific responsibility of managing supply chain as Supply Chain Executive Director.
Chris will head up significant planned changes across the organisation’s supply chain and operations, including building capacity, introducing new technology, changing its warehouse management system and implementing sustainability and new environmental capabilities.
“There is also the highly complicated process of redesigning, re-procuring, and approving logistics successor arrangements and delivering a logistics strategy to support the NHS Long Term Plan, including the transition to Integrated Care Systems,” noted NHS Supply Chain.
Responsibility for leading commercial activities will transition to the newly formed commercial directorate, led by new Commercial Executive Director, Andy Windsor. In the role, Andy will lead NHS Supply Chain’s category management and procurement offering, and head up strategic supplier relationship development and ongoing contract management of its category tower service providers.
The revised structure has also led to the creation of a new directorate for growth and innovation, with the purpose to grow smaller operations within NHS Supply Chain. The position of Growth and Innovation Executive Director is currently vacant.
The revised structure has also led to the creation of a new directorate for growth and innovation, with the purpose to grow smaller operations within NHS Supply Chain. The position of Growth and Innovation Executive Director is currently vacant.
The new structure will also see the introduction of a new trading platform for its core financial processes created, reporting to Chief Finance Officer, Colin McCready. The new entity will form the base of NHS Supply Chain’s trading capabilities, including accounts payable/receivable, forecasting demand, pricing, and savings.
Also reporting to Colin McCready will be a new IT Directorate, led by Matt Wynn, which will bring together all elements of Information Technology and strategy, including cyber security and IT change management.
Under the new regime, business transformation will move from a functional capability to become embedded across customer, supply chain and commercial – transferring accountability for defining and delivering change to the directorates.
Sara Ford, Strategy Executive Director, will take on responsibility for NHS Supply Chain’s overall organisational transformation strategy, the project management office and change management approach.
The announcement of the new executive team structure comes as the BHTA gears up for its upcoming Integration and Sustainability Conference, where NHS Supply Chain Chief Executive Officer, Andrew New, and Commercial Director, Andy Windsor, are confirmed speakers.
The two procurement executives will be among a number of confirmed senior leaders from across the NHS and government presenting at the one-day event, as well as taking questions from delegates during a live Q&A panel.
To learn more about the event and book tickets for your team, visit the BHTA Conference page here
Read the original post from NHS Supply Chain here: https://www.supplychain.nhs.uk/news-article/changes-to-the-nhs-supply-chain-executive-structure/