Business Manager (XN07)

Job responsibilities

This role will report into a member of the Academys SMT, and will work closely with the Director, wider SMT and across all three teams in the Academy. Well support you by welcoming you into our friendly and dynamic team, well provide you with all the tools that you need to ensure that you can hit the ground running, and well support you in your career development.

We are also open to discussing flexible working arrangements for this role for between 30 and 37.5 hours a week - please get in touch if youd like to talk to us about this.

The Academy team work flexibly both virtually and in-person. We have a dedicated city-centre office, use of partner offices across Leeds and meet together regularly for team meetings, as well as supporting colleagues to work from home.

Main duties

Horizon scanning for funding opportunities, potential collaborations, research and innovation which supports strategic Academy priorities

Creating and sustaining productive long term relationships across diverse organisations which provide opportunities for collaborations, funding, research and broader business development.

Supporting SMT to draw together system-wide and Academy-wide expertise to generate business development ideas and opportunities, scoping and preparing business proposals and funding bids.

Working with SMT to develop the Academys commercial framework including principles on commercialisation, and identifying and scoping suitable opportunities to sell/license products and services.

Supporting national, regional and local partnerships (beyond financial and research relationships) to help develop key connections to help inform our activity and increase the Academys impact and influence.

Overseeing external funding arrangements, licensing, procurement, contracts and standing up new projects/initiatives, providing direct support to SMT to manage these.

Developing and delivering effective corporate processes and relationships within LTHT and across the wider partnership to ensure we can deliver at pace e.g. IG, procurement, commercial/IP, innovation, recruitment, HR, identifying the best solution for a specific piece of work.

Acting as professional lead for business and corporate processes, ensuring these are embedded within and across Academy teams, including providing guidance, support and training to administrative colleagues.

Overseeing the annual business cycle including planning, resilience, performance reporting, governance and risk helping SMT to ensure the Academy meets the requirements of both funding partners and the Leeds One Workforce Strategic Board.

Supporting SMT with day-to-day business management including data, GDPR, IG compliance, reporting, finances, contract management, secretariat for core business and governance meetings.

Core knowledge and skills:

Outstanding written communication skills for management reports, power point presentations, evaluations, briefings, minute taking

Organisational skills for planning, coordinating, delegating, assuring, scheduling

Relationships - across diverse internal and external teams, supportive, enabling, agile, adaptable, influential, developing others, team work

Business expertise - IG, data, corporate planning, finance, risk management, people management etc.

Analytical skills to interrogate data and insights, undertake options appraisals, identify and assess opportunity and risk, plan and forecast financial options

Problem solving - understanding challenges and options, keeping colleagues engaged, removing barriers and finding best-fit solutions.

Digital skills - ability to use/ learn to use a breadth of digital skills to enable effective working, include MS365, virtual/hybrid meeting platforms and digital tools for planning & management

Skills & behaviours

Essential

• Ability to work under significant and sustained pressure and to highly demanding and often conflicting timescales.
• Commitment to team working with the ability to take personal responsibility for difficult decision making
• Ability to communicate and network effectively, negotiate and influence others taking into account the multi-professional and organisational cultures
• Highly developed communication skills to enable the development of workforce and capacity planning
• Ability to produce a range of documents to varying audiences, both internal and external to the Trust some of which is of a confidential, sensitive or contentious nature
• Ability to establish processes and systems within the Directorate to develop and monitor financial and business plans across specialist services working collaboratively with other Directorates
• Negotiation and influencing skills and diplomacy
• Effective team leader and team player with the ability to work flexibly in a diverse and highly demanding organisation
• Working well under pressure of time and resources
• Fair, honest and consistent in approach
• Self-management, demonstrating resilience
• Negotiation and influencing skills and diplomacy
• Ability to communicate in a complex service
• Evidence of developing effective working relationships within and beyond employing organisation
• Effective team leader and team player

Additional requirements

Essential

• Change management skills including service reconfiguration
• Analytical skills, literacy and numeracy. Ability to analyse data and formulate reports
• Able to communicate in a complex service
• Understanding and experience of information analysis essential for communicating business, finance and workforce plans
• Able to develop effective working partnership skills within and beyond employing organisation
• Able to deliver outcomes within a culture of ambiguity
• Presentation skills using a variety of options and software packages.
• Ability to manage teams based on different sites across the organisation
• Manage clinical and business risks developing action plans to improve performance.
• Able to fulfil Occupational Health requirements for the post (with reasonable adjustments if necessary), including clearance on blood borne viruses in compliance with Trust Policy

Experience

Essential

• Understanding and experience of effective information analysis, data interpretation and presentation, and software applications essential for communicating business, finance and workforce plans
• Good sound knowledge and understanding of writing comprehensive business cases
• Work within the Trusts HR guidance and toolkits for HR processes to include workforce planning, recruitment and selection, honorary contracts
• Understanding of Trust Policy and Procedure, e.g. HR/Risk Management/Clinical Governance
• Understanding of management and operational arrangements in the Trust
• Knowledge and practical understanding of financial and commissioning frameworks
• Experience of middle management level
• Operational planning and implementation including strategic planning and options appraisal, and change management
• Experience of day-to-day people management and ability to develop others
• Experience of budget planning and management
• Demonstrates strong analytical skills, literacy and numeracy
• Experience of strategic planning and options appraisal
• Knowledge of financial and commissioning frameworks
• Experience in working in partnership with others to develop, implement and evaluate policies and strategies, including managing change

Desirable

• NHS management experience

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to degree level or equivalent professional qualification
• Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development, including a management qualification or post graduate diploma
• Management qualification or post graduate diploma.
• Career progression through continuing professional development.
• Willingness to undertake training and development as identified through the PDP process

Desirable

• Masters level in a related field