Job summary
Health Innovation Manchester is seeking a Corporate Business Manager who brings professionalism, curiosity, and commitment. This pivotal role supports the Chief Operating Officer in delivering strategic operational and workforce priorities, contributing to major projects, and ensuring robust business planning and reporting.
We're looking for someone who thrives in complexity and brings a calm, structured approach. Integrity, purposeful communication, and trusted stakeholder relationships are essential. You'll translate strategic intent into practical delivery and develop systems that promote transparency, assurance, and continuous improvement.
You'll work independently and collaboratively across boundaries, managing competing priorities with agility and sound judgement. Political awareness and emotional intelligence are key to influencing and engaging others, especially around sensitive issues.
This role suits someone operationally capable and forward-thinking who is able to connect innovation, governance, and performance. If you enjoy solving problems, enabling others, and working in a fast-paced, purpose-driven environment, we'd love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
The Corporate Business Manager has a pivotal role in working with the Chief Operating Officer to execute strategic business priorities on behalf of Health Innovation Manchester.
The postholder will provide specialist knowledge and expertise in business planning and governance, with a deep understanding of the innovation landscape across GM and nationally.
They will oversee the effective management and planning of a range of strategic and operational projects, whilst ensuring activities and services are planned and managed effectively to ensure successful delivery. They will also design and implement appropriate systems and processes to capture and report on performance data and assurance.
The Corporate Business Manager will be politically astute, a problem solver, with effective communication and influencing skills, and the ability to translate conceptual or complex information into a simple and understandable design or narrative that can be understood by a broad range of stakeholders.
With the ability to work independently and collaboratively at all levels, they will be able to work quickly in response to changing demands and multiple priorities, operating in an agile manner.
About us
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level with additional qualification to master's level in business management or corporate governance (including the Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators Advanced Certificate in Health Service Governance) or equivalent level knowledge gained from significant experience whilst working at a similar level
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Further training in project management and financial management
Knowledge
Essential
- Specialist knowledge across a range of administration and business management procedures and practices and underpinned by theoretical or practical knowledge or experience
- Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment
Training and Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within a Senior Administration role with line management responsibilities
- Experience of developing and implementing effective corporate governance procedures and policies
- Experience of co-ordinating risk management processes and risks reporting
- Experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies.
- Demonstrated experience of working closely and liaising with very Senior managers
- Proven track record of developing/implementing record management systems and policies, procedures and processes in a business management capacity
- Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive and confidential environment with diverse stakeholder input
- Experience of drafting briefing papers for senior level meetings, agenda building and providing structure to internal meetings and external meetings
- Significant experience of taking information from several sources and providing analysis, summary and options with detailed report information
- Demonstrable experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Uses own initiative and takes responsibility for own actions & behaviours
- Makes sure themselves and others work in a way that complies with legislation and organisation policies and procedures on health, safety and risk management
- Takes ownership for improving and maintaining a healthy, safe and pleasant work environment. Working across the organisation in accordance with internal policies
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
- Identifies the impact of contextual factors on communication and manages people's expectations and adapts communication to take account of the intended audience, which will include colleagues at all levels including senior level stakeholders from other organisations.
- Ability to build and maintain a variety of constructive relationships witha broad range of internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to actively participate in and lead working groups across the priority areas of Corporate Affairs and engaging colleagues across the organisation
- Advanced key board skills
- Ability to effectively plan and coordinate the delivery of a broad range of complex tasks or programmes of work covering the Corporate Affairs portfolio over medium term adjusting plans and resources in line with changing events and requirements
- Demonstrates motivational skills to encourage collaborative working to improve services and performance where there maybe resistance tochange
- Works autonomously and expected outcomes are defined but post holderhas freedom to determine how best to deliver these. Guide by principles and broad polices/regulations
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level with additional qualification to master's level in business management or corporate governance (including the Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators Advanced Certificate in Health Service Governance) or equivalent level knowledge gained from significant experience whilst working at a similar level
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Further training in project management and financial management
Knowledge
Essential
- Specialist knowledge across a range of administration and business management procedures and practices and underpinned by theoretical or practical knowledge or experience
- Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment
Training and Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within a Senior Administration role with line management responsibilities
- Experience of developing and implementing effective corporate governance procedures and policies
- Experience of co-ordinating risk management processes and risks reporting
- Experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies.
- Demonstrated experience of working closely and liaising with very Senior managers
- Proven track record of developing/implementing record management systems and policies, procedures and processes in a business management capacity
- Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive and confidential environment with diverse stakeholder input
- Experience of drafting briefing papers for senior level meetings, agenda building and providing structure to internal meetings and external meetings
- Significant experience of taking information from several sources and providing analysis, summary and options with detailed report information
- Demonstrable experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Uses own initiative and takes responsibility for own actions & behaviours
- Makes sure themselves and others work in a way that complies with legislation and organisation policies and procedures on health, safety and risk management
- Takes ownership for improving and maintaining a healthy, safe and pleasant work environment. Working across the organisation in accordance with internal policies
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
- Identifies the impact of contextual factors on communication and manages people's expectations and adapts communication to take account of the intended audience, which will include colleagues at all levels including senior level stakeholders from other organisations.
- Ability to build and maintain a variety of constructive relationships witha broad range of internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to actively participate in and lead working groups across the priority areas of Corporate Affairs and engaging colleagues across the organisation
- Advanced key board skills
- Ability to effectively plan and coordinate the delivery of a broad range of complex tasks or programmes of work covering the Corporate Affairs portfolio over medium term adjusting plans and resources in line with changing events and requirements
- Demonstrates motivational skills to encourage collaborative working to improve services and performance where there maybe resistance tochange
- Works autonomously and expected outcomes are defined but post holderhas freedom to determine how best to deliver these. Guide by principles and broad polices/regulations
Additional information
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).
