Job summary
- Main area
- Director
- Grade
- Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 990-NHP-6525796-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Any NHSE Office
- Town
- National
- Salary
- £100,000 - £131,300 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/09/2024 23:59
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Market Management Director
Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
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
Market Management Director - New Hospital Programme
We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Market Management Director to lead our market management team within the New Hospital Programme (NHP). This role is pivotal in shaping and sustaining a market capable of delivering the innovative and ambitious goals of the NHS's Health Infrastructure Plan.
About the Role: As the Market Management Director, you will develop and implement strategies to ensure the market has the right capability and capacity to meet NHP's requirements. You will lead a team at the heart of NHP's delivery efforts, engaging with senior leadership and managing supplier performance to drive continuous improvement.
About the Team: The New Hospital Programme is dedicated to transforming hospital construction, achieving significant savings through repeatable design, modern construction methods, new clinical planning approaches, and innovations in sustainability and digital technology. You will be part of a forward-thinking team committed to these goals.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
- Leadership: Represent NHP as an expert and thought leader in Market Management. Develop and lead the Industrial and Market Management strategies and objectives, ensuring alignment with NHP's overall goals. Act as a senior national role model for inclusion and programme values.
- Industrial Strategy: Identify the strategic focus to engage industry on for the NHP, providing the structure and direction of change needed to enable the delivery of the NHP. Work across the programme to create a robust implementation plan to deliver the change with industry.
- Market Strategy: Create and implement a sustainable Market Strategy to build a resilient and diverse national pool of suppliers. Ensure the market can deliver innovative solutions and meet NHP's capacity requirements.
- Supplier Performance: Lead supplier performance management, ensuring compliance with Service Level Agreements and Key Performance Indicators. Drive continuous improvement and innovation in supplier engagement.
- Market Engagement: Develop and execute a comprehensive Market Engagement Strategy to attract and manage suppliers. Engage with industry to identify innovative contracting models and enhance market capability and capacity.
- Market Analysis: Oversee market analysis to assess supplier capability and capacity, inform pre-contract strategies, and ensure the market can deliver the latest innovations.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Essential Qualifications and Experience:
- Educated to a master’s level or equivalent experience in a similar role within large, complex organizations.
- Extensive experience in stakeholder and supplier relationship management.
- Proven track record in delivering complex transactions and organisational change.
- Strong leadership and strategic planning skills.
Desirable Attributes:
- Relevant professional qualifications in programme or contract management.
- Experience in the health sector or public sector procurement.
- Commercial experience in the manufacturing and infrastructure industries.
Join us in this challenging and rewarding role where your expertise will contribute to the successful delivery of the New Hospital Programme, shaping the future of healthcare infrastructure.
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 similar level in large and complex organisations, delivering complex projects.
- • Relevant professional qualification commensurate with experience.
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Extensive experience in stakeholder and supplier relationship management.
- • Successful track record of delivery of proactive stakeholder engagement with evidence of measurable impact.
- • Delivery of complex transactions in the public or private sector.
- • Experience in programme management and structuring the delivery of complex work, incorporating multiple inputs and stakeholders, management of fluctuating workload and associated resource management.
Skills, Abilities and Attributes
Essential criteria
- • An outstanding communicator, both in person and in writing, with the ability to present advice and information in a clear and logical way and effectively communicate on highly complex matters.
- • Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills.
- • Established stakeholder management (Senior/ Board Level).
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Hannah Parker
- Job title
- Recruitment Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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