Job summary
We are the NHS Confederation, the voice of healthcare leaders.
As the only membership body for the whole healthcare system, we are uniquely placed to bring together, support and speak for leaders and organisations across the sector. We join the dots between different parts of the health and care system; we understand the challenges our members face.
Building relationships with industry is a key way we help our members and inform our work. Partnerships can help the NHS get up stream, adopt technology, work differently and achieve greater efficiency and effectiveness in a challenging time. We are good at this; we are ambitious and want to get even better. Therefore, we are expanding our Industry Engagement & Policy team to support this, with a new Head of role.
We have a great opportunity for some someone with a wealth of understanding of the health policy landscape, to apply this to help us maintain and build new commercial partnerships, create new products and support our programme events.
If thats you, read on
Main duties of the job
As the Head of Industry Engagement & Policy, you will:
- account manage relationships with our partners - some of the biggest companies working with the NHS, including Google Health, Microsoft, Boehringer Ingelheim, Novartis, Accenture and many more.
- manage a team to use insights from these relationships to design new commercial offers, and help shape the programme for NHS ConfedExpo, our major event for NHS leaders, which we deliver in partnership with NHS England.
You'll also constantly look to build our pipeline of new partners, enabling us to grow our income and fund our work to support our members.
About us
The NHS Confederation is the membership organisation that brings together, supports and speaks for the whole healthcare system in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The NHS Confederation is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive environment for our staff. A place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We offer a range of inclusive employment policies including family friendly policies and flexible working and we have range of channels to support staff from different backgrounds including our staff networks.
The NHS Confederation is committed to being a flexible employer. We understand the value and benefit to our employees being able to work flexibly and our agile working principles are designed to empower our people to work with optimal flexibility and minimal constraints to support a work life balance and take care of employee health and wellbeing.
You will receive an excellent benefits package, including 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, salary sacrifice schemes and travel season ticket loans.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You can find out more information about the role and respinsibilites in the job description on the right.
About you
You will be an innovative, creative and opportunistic manager, with excellent commercial and relationship management skills.
You will thrive on collaborative working with senior leaders across our organisation, understanding our influencing and impact goals and the challenges facing our members.You'll use this knowledge to design new products that help our members improve, whilst also funding our work on their behalf.
You will be an experienced manager, working with a small but dynamic team we want you to build their skills, helping them achieve their personal ambitions, as they help us achieve the organisations aims to expand and grow.
This is a new - post we are investing in an ambitious future for the Confederation. If you have the same ambition, we would love to hear from you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You can find out more information about the role and respinsibilites in the job description on the right.
About you
You will be an innovative, creative and opportunistic manager, with excellent commercial and relationship management skills.
You will thrive on collaborative working with senior leaders across our organisation, understanding our influencing and impact goals and the challenges facing our members.You'll use this knowledge to design new products that help our members improve, whilst also funding our work on their behalf.
You will be an experienced manager, working with a small but dynamic team we want you to build their skills, helping them achieve their personal ambitions, as they help us achieve the organisations aims to expand and grow.
This is a new - post we are investing in an ambitious future for the Confederation. If you have the same ambition, we would love to hear from you.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of understanding health policy, to inform new products and develop thought leadership content
- Extensive experience of developing commercial propositions around policy work
- Demonstrate successful management of relationships at a senior level, including internal and external leaders
- Record of developing processes and strategies to account manage industry partners to build grow their investment, add value, build coalitions and achieve shared goal
- Experience of working in a matrix-style organisation and across departments
- Ability to be responsive and agile in a rapidly changing environment.
Desirable
- Record of working collaboratively with partner organisations to build coalitions and achieve shared goals
- Experience working with or in a membership or network environment
- Knowledge of project and programme management tools and techniques
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of understanding health policy, to inform new products and develop thought leadership content
- Extensive experience of developing commercial propositions around policy work
- Demonstrate successful management of relationships at a senior level, including internal and external leaders
- Record of developing processes and strategies to account manage industry partners to build grow their investment, add value, build coalitions and achieve shared goal
- Experience of working in a matrix-style organisation and across departments
- Ability to be responsive and agile in a rapidly changing environment.
Desirable
- Record of working collaboratively with partner organisations to build coalitions and achieve shared goals
- Experience working with or in a membership or network environment
- Knowledge of project and programme management tools and techniques
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.