Head of Contracts, Partnerships & Business Development

Job description

Job responsibilities

Stakeholders and Partnerships

• Develop a comprehensive network of stakeholder and partnership relationships
• Develop a robust stakeholder management strategy in place which ensures:
• Comprehensive stakeholder analysis the identification and engagement of key stakeholders both within and outside the organisation, securing involvement and commitment to local community, mental health and specialist services.
• - Ensure that any transformational changes to ways of working are undertaken with the identified stakeholders and reflect pathways across the health economy
• - Strong and robust relationships are in place to underpin all contractual discussions.

Transformation

• Work across the clinical services to support a broad range of transformation projects that are linked closely to commissioning intentions.
• - Development and maintenance of the governance structure for the programme
• - Establish a rolling programme of reporting to the programme board
• - Provide the leadership and line management to the transformation managers
• - Maintain the programme risk and issues logs report significant variances to the Divisional Management Team
• - Manage external consultant support that may be needed for specific projects.

New Business and Tender Management

• - Working closely with the contract negotiation team the post holder will provide the local business support for all contracts as required
• - Ensure all contracts are based on robust specifications that reflect realistic deliverables
• - Work with the leadership team to ensure delivery of both CIP and QIPP schemes as agreed through contracts.
• - Working closely with the commercial team at Trust HQ, horizon scan for new business opportunities and manage a tender pipeline for the Division.
• - Work closely with services to support them with new business opportunities or service developments.
• - Explore opportunities for providing temporary solutions to service and commissioning priorities.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Business Management in health or care

Desirable

• Project management qualification
• MSc/MA relevant to post

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience managing contracts
• Experience running complex projects
• Working with commissioners

Desirable

• Supervising staff

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Milton Keynes HQ

MKUH , Standing Way,

Milton Keynes

MK6 5AZ

Employer's website

https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work (Opens in a new tab)