Job summary
- Main area
- Commercial Operations
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 990-NHP-6669258-IE
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Any NHSE Office
- Town
- National
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Commercial Operations Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
We are in the process of establishing long-term capability to deliver the New Hospital Programme - the 3rd largest programme on the Government’s Major Projects Portfolio enabling the delivery of NHS’s Health Infrastructure Plan.
As the Senior Commercial Operations Manager, the postholder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering our ambitious programme, encouraging the programme organisations to work together to deliver more efficient commercial and corporate services.
The postholder will work closely with the workstream lead to help to shape our thinking about the future of these services across the programme and the wider NHS.
The postholder will work closely with others in the Commercial Operations team and across the Directorate.
The postholder will form strong working relationships across delivery teams, within NHSE, with external experts to support the delivery of commercial strategies that benefits the programme and wider NHS England.
They will support the work of other projects across the team, working alongside the senior leadership team and the Deputy Director to achieve this.
The postholder will work as part of the multi-disciplinary team to support the planning, scoping and delivery of projects and wider, supporting them to implement new ways of working and deliver change.
Main duties of the job
The postholder’s role will largely cover the following:
· Supporting the development of the commercial strategy and framework from which success is defined and subsequently assessed.
· Supporting NHS England, the Commercial Directorate and other functions to recognise and understand the role that data, systems and standards plays in delivery of value for money, leading edge services.
· Supporting the development of the commercial toolkit, drawing on industry best practice and public sector insights, to support the programme to identify and address the challenges it faces with innovative solutions, through for example ideation tools, information sharing platforms and innovation selection.
· Supporting the identification, selection, and delivery of best practice and innovation with partners which can then be showcased to the programme system to encourage further ideation and change.
· Supporting the communication of all aspects of the commercial work – from strategy through to ideation and delivery.
· Working within a matrix virtual team from across NHS England, the wider NHS system, and suppliers to define problems, plan and execute their delivery.
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You can find further details about the job, organisational structure, recruitment profile, expected outcomes and benefits information in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore, please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in the fields of innovation, project management and transformational change.
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- In depth additional knowledge acquired over a significant period of time in supporting the delivery of innovation and economic or business development resulting in significant scale quality improvement and cost reduction in the NHS or similar large and complex organisations.
- Supporting ideation and innovation creation, selection, and knowledge management. Demonstrable experience of supporting end-to-end innovation delivery.
Skills, Capabilities & Attributes
Essential criteria
- 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.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Recruitment Support
- Job title
- Recruitment Support
- Email address
- [email protected]
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