Job summary
As a Senior Commercial and Business Manager, you will work with the CIO, Deputy CIO and Director of Estates and a dynamic team, being involved in delivering successful operational and financial outcomes at Royal Papworth Hospital, rated outstanding by the CQC and a specialist hospital across the globe
As the commercial and business lead for Digital and Estates teams, you will manage our contract and supply to deliver effective and efficient service
The successful applicant will have excellent communication, analytical skills, financial and negotiation experience along with a commitment to improving quality and patient outcome.
The principal responsibilities will be:
*Play a leading role in managing and in delivering successful commercial outcomes.
*Ensure effective planning, development and equitable delivery of health care by leading and managing the commissioning of service provision and the effective delivery of long-term operational plans.
*Identify business development opportunities, manage third party goods and services, ensuring best value for money.
*Contribute to clinical and digital commercial options review and business cases as required.
*Manage and review existing contracts, against the cost improvement programme.
The post holder will liaise with stakeholders across the hospital to identify, lead and co-ordinate tasks involved in the planning and procuring and managing contracts of clinical and digital systems
Main duties of the job
Planning and Organisation
*Contribute to strategic planning and participate in the development and implementation of the division's annual business plans which supports overall Trust strategy
*Develop business cases to support service expansion or redesign.
*Nurture key relationships and maintain networks internally and externally, including national networks.
*Focus on the delivery of streamlined, efficient goods and services delivery.
*Monitor and evaluate risks and issues using a tracking mechanism to enable a proactive resolution and escalation processes.
Financial Management
*Responsible for making recommendations, providing advice and able to prepare strategic reports as required.
*Support delivery of the cost reduction programmes and organisational
Information Management
*Manage highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, presenting information, to a wide range of stakeholders.
*Develop reports summarising status on issues, appraising outcomes and providing progress reports.
Policy and Service Development
*Find innovative ways of exploring and managing partnerships to help manage existing and nurturing value where long-term relationships.
*Responsible for interpretation and implementation of policies, guidelines and review and monitor service level agreements (SLA's) which may impact service.
Research and Development
*Co-ordinate Research & Development initiatives, delegating as appropriate.
About us
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.
The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.
For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour
Job description
Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- MCIPS accreditation or evidence of equivalent level of experience
- IACCM Advanced Practitioner status or evidence of equivalent level of experience
- Evidence of specialist knowledge over a number of
- disciplines and commercial practices and procedures
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
- Experience of managing and motivating a team/virtual team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
- Member of relevant professional body.
- Understanding of the commercial lifecycle and demonstrates extensive skills and behaviours at an advanced practitioner level with detailed knowledge and substantial experience of the majority of the skills areas and applies them when undertaking complex and contentious commercial activities.
- Knowledge of category management approaches, tools and techniques.
- Understanding of commercial technology & analysis of data sets to manipulate and deliver MI and reporting e.g. Atamis, Jaggear.
- Understanding of financial analysis
- Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
- Ability to negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action, working to
- tight and often changing timescales.
- Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others.
- Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies.
- Able to work in a team with good interpersonal skills including tact and discretion.
- Ability to communication clearly with Royal Papworth NHS Foundation Trust colleagues, senior managers and customers
- Accurately follow documented procedures
- Ability to problem solve customer issues
- Advanced computing and keyboard skills (ECDL or equivalent)
- Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy.
- Knowledge of supplier relationship and industry engagement activities.
- Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.
Desirable
- Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy.
- Knowledge of supplier relationship and industry engagement activities.
- Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Evidence ability to uphold the Trust's values Compassion, Excellence Collaboration.
- Innovative, progressive with enthusiasm and commitment
- Able to work on own initiative or part of a team.
- Evidence of continued personal development.
- Willing to work in a flexible manner as and when required.
- Attention to detail.
- Personal and professional demeanour and credibility that generates trust and confidence in others.
- The highest degree of honesty, probity and integrity
- Able to meet the travel requirements of the job role.
- Ability to present and operate at Board level.
- Excellent communicator both orally and in writing
- Proven to be a successful influencer and negotiator.
- An overall good manager of people
- Confidence and self-motivation
Desirable
- Ability to identify opportunities for development of service, team and self.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- MCIPS accreditation or evidence of equivalent level of experience
- IACCM Advanced Practitioner status or evidence of equivalent level of experience
- Evidence of specialist knowledge over a number of
- disciplines and commercial practices and procedures
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
- Experience of managing and motivating a team/virtual team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
- Member of relevant professional body.
- Understanding of the commercial lifecycle and demonstrates extensive skills and behaviours at an advanced practitioner level with detailed knowledge and substantial experience of the majority of the skills areas and applies them when undertaking complex and contentious commercial activities.
- Knowledge of category management approaches, tools and techniques.
- Understanding of commercial technology & analysis of data sets to manipulate and deliver MI and reporting e.g. Atamis, Jaggear.
- Understanding of financial analysis
- Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
- Ability to negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action, working to
- tight and often changing timescales.
- Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others.
- Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies.
- Able to work in a team with good interpersonal skills including tact and discretion.
- Ability to communication clearly with Royal Papworth NHS Foundation Trust colleagues, senior managers and customers
- Accurately follow documented procedures
- Ability to problem solve customer issues
- Advanced computing and keyboard skills (ECDL or equivalent)
- Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy.
- Knowledge of supplier relationship and industry engagement activities.
- Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.
Desirable
- Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy.
- Knowledge of supplier relationship and industry engagement activities.
- Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Evidence ability to uphold the Trust's values Compassion, Excellence Collaboration.
- Innovative, progressive with enthusiasm and commitment
- Able to work on own initiative or part of a team.
- Evidence of continued personal development.
- Willing to work in a flexible manner as and when required.
- Attention to detail.
- Personal and professional demeanour and credibility that generates trust and confidence in others.
- The highest degree of honesty, probity and integrity
- Able to meet the travel requirements of the job role.
- Ability to present and operate at Board level.
- Excellent communicator both orally and in writing
- Proven to be a successful influencer and negotiator.
- An overall good manager of people
- Confidence and self-motivation
Desirable
- Ability to identify opportunities for development of service, team and self.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
