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About the Role
NHS Supply Chain is seeking a Business Architect to play a key role in bridging the gap between strategy and execution during a period of significant transformation. This role is crucial for achieving the organization's ambitions by influencing the business side of change and shaping the future of business architecture in the NHS.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with business leaders to understand strategic priorities and translate them into actionable architectural views.
- Refine and iterate capability, organisation, information, and value stream models, as well as extended domains, to reflect current and future states.
- Maintain and evolve the Target Operating Model to support strategy execution and transformation planning.
- Develop business architecture views and roadmaps that guide investment decisions and enable change initiatives.
- Ensure alignment between business strategy, operational needs, and transformation programmes.
- Facilitate conversations across business units to identify impacts, dependencies, and opportunities for optimisation and transformation.
- Provide clear, structured insights that help stakeholders understand how the business delivers value and how it can evolve.
Requirements
- Significant experience of Business Architecture in practice and understanding (essential).
- Experience of Target operating model and service design.
- The ability to work intensely to achieve and exceed difficult standards.
- Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently, turning theory into practical deliverables that work for the business and deliver value.
- The ability to engage with diverse stakeholders across the NHS system, translating complex architectural concepts into clear, business-relevant insight.
Skills
- Business Architecture Guild & BizBOK (desirable)
- SAFe (desirable)
- TOGAF (desirable)
Location
- Nottingham
- Alfreton
- Daresbury
- Wakefield
- Sheffield
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Permanent
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- £65,920 with the potential to rise to £77,553 over 3 years
Benefits
- Hybrid working opportunities
- Annual bonus schemes
- Long service awards
- Colleague recognition awards
- 27 days holiday plus bank holidays
- In-house training
- Support for external qualifications
- 1 day of paid well-being leave
- Free access to the 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
- Generous pension scheme (12% employer contribution)
- Access to Flexible Benefits Scheme (Life Insurance, Critical Illness Cover, Income Protection, Health Cash Plan, Dental Insurance, additional pension contributions)
- 2 days of paid volunteering leave
- Discounts from Blue Light Card
- Discounts from NHS Discounts
About the Company
- NHS Supply Chain's role is to support the NHS to save lives and improve health by sourcing, delivering, and supplying healthcare products, services, and food for NHS trusts and healthcare organisations across England and Wales.
- They serve every NHS Trust, operate a national network of distribution centres, manage relationships with over a thousand suppliers, and deliver over 8,000,000 orders annually to more than 17,000 locations.
- NHS Supply Chain is a company Registered in England and Wales, with company number 10881715, acting as the management function of the NHS Supply Chain.
Equal Opportunity
- At NHS Supply Chain, we are committed to building an inclusive environment where difference is not only valued, but celebrated, giving everyone the opportunity to thrive in their career.
- Developing our people is key to our success, so if this role sounds like the right next step in your career but your experience doesn’t match perfectly with the job advert, we encourage you to still apply.
- Struggling to complete our application form, and require additional support? Reach out to our Talent Acquisition team at careers@supplychain.nhs.uk who will be happy to help you with alternative ways to apply.