Commercial Director

Job summary

Locala Health and Wellbeing embraces diversity and inclusion and encourages applicants from people from all backgrounds with our ambition to have a workforce that represents the wider communities we live and work within, which you can support us to achieve.

We are an organisation that celebrates and values the individuality of our colleagues lived experiences and can adapt accordingly, recognising the value inclusivity brings when delivering equitable, high quality healthcare to our local communities. Where everyone feels valued, has the ability to develop, has flexible working opportunities, with a sense of belonging, supported by our Inclusivity Groups.

Locala is a Disability Confident employer and as such any disabled applicants who meets all the essential criteria are guaranteed to be invited to the assessment process.

Main duties of the job

Commercial Director

Band 8d (indicative) - £88,168 - £101,677

Hours - 37.5

Permanent

Locala Health and Wellbeing social enterprise has a proud history of delivering outsourced NHS and local authority healthcare contracts and in order to accelerate our social impact, as set out in our Thrive strategy, we are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Commercial Director to join our team.

As the Commercial Director you will be accountable for leading a team, growing profitable revenue, revenue diversification, outsourcing strategy and delivery, contract negotiation, key customer relationships, marketing and brand development.

Through inspiring leadership you will:

• Analyse market trends and competitor activities, converting market insight into margin accretive executable growth opportunities
• Lead identification and tendering of outsourced public and private sector tenders, commercial modelling, commercial strategy and negotiation and joint venture structuring.
• Lead, motivate, and coach a team of outsourcing, B2C and B2B lead generation professionals, business development managers, and marketing executives
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop a go-to-market strategy for our future healthcare services, drive sales initiatives and support with effective mobilisation and stabilisation of new services
• Monitor sales performance and implement strategies to meet challenging targets stay updated on industry trends and best practices to drive innovation and competitiveness

About us

We are looking for a leader with exceptional communication and influencing skills, who has the ability to motivate teams and gain consensus at all levels within the organisation.

You should live our Values of Be Caring, Be Ambitious, Be Part of It and must be willing to challenge and be challenged and work collaboratively with teams organisation wide. You must lead with compassion in an ambitious and collaborative team, as we shape our services to support the communities we serve.

If you are inspired to THRIVE with us, we would love you to hear from you, please review the Job Description and Person Specification and apply though submitting an up-to-date CV with a covering letter detailing how you meet the person specification for the role and how you will support the organisation to deliver the THRIVE Strategy.

More more information, in the first instance, please speak to our Talent & Social Mobility Lead, Charlotte Collinson on 07532 142395 or emailcharlotte.collinson@locala.org.uk.

Closing date: 24 February 2024

Interviews/Stakeholder Panel: 19 March 2024

Final Interviews: W/C 24 March 2024

*We are committed to a flexible and inclusive interview process. Should dates for interview be unsuitable, we would be open to alternative suggestions within a particular timeframe and would encourage applicants to contact the Talent & Social Mobility Lead to discuss further*