Jacqui Rock

Jacqui Rock, leads the Commercial Directorate at NHS England – a national team of commercial and estates professionals that ensures the NHS has the products, services and infrastructure it needs to deliver world-class patient care and spends taxpayers’ money effectively and efficiently.

Jacqui oversees £30 billion of NHS spend with approximately 80,000 suppliers, covering major categories of spend bought at the national, regional and local level. Since joining in January 2022, Jacqui has established a new NHS Central Commercial Function (CCF), which has supported the rollout of one e-commerce system across the NHS, driven the establishment of an NHS commercial community and improved how the NHS engages with and works with its suppliers, all with the ambition of transforming procurement within the NHS. Jacqui also oversees the work of NHS Supply Chain, following the transfer of share ownership to NHS England in September 2021.

Jacqui runs the NHS Central Estates Function, which supports the safe and effective running of over 10,000 hospital buildings, estates and facilities management services, and the delivery £5bn of capital works on the NHS estate each year. Under Jacqui’s leadership, the NHS became the first national health service to develop a Net Zero Building Standard in support of its commitment to deliver a net zero NHS and has seen the rollout of new National Standards for Hospital Food and Drink. In May 2023, Jacqui became a Non-Executive Director for NHS Property Services Ltd.
Jacqui joined NHS England from the UK Health Security Agency where she was Chief Commercial Officer. She was formerly Commercial Director for the Defence Infrastructure Organisation at the Ministry of Defence and plays an active leadership role in the Cabinet Office Central Commercial Function.
Before joining the UK government, Jacqui spent 30 years in the financial services industry, where she held multiple executive positions in companies including Credit Suisse, JP Morgan, Barclays and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Jacqui was included in Supply Chain Digital’s ‘Top 100 Women in Supply Chain 2023 and in July, was named as part of the CIPS Procurement Power List 2023.