Business and Partnerships Lead (SNEE)

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. Lead the commissioning interface between the Trust and its customers for a portfolio of income streams, including contract performance, financial performance, negotiation and monitoring. Taking specialist lead for the emergency operations and related services contracts.2. Analyse and interpret the individual commissioning intentions of the portfolio of customers to determine how this will affect the Trust and its business streams. Recommend actions to create opportunities for investment.3. Commissioning lead for changes in the health care pathway including the Trusts interface with networks such as Critical Care, PPCI, stroke and cancer and others as they are created. Responsible for identifying the commissioning implications of the proposals and working with operational and financial colleagues to create costed business cases for internal and external discussion and negotiation.4. Support local operational teams in the formation of SLAs, contracts and agreements to ensure that all aspects of the Trusts governance procedures are covered.5. Consult with internal partners from all disciplines to ensure that business opportunities are legal, clinically safe, deliverable and financially viable.6. Maintain the business process cycle database for the Trust including the monitoring of all income streams to ensure viability and tracking from initial request to cash receipt.7. Assist, participate and lead where appropriate on the Trusts response to tenders and service developments, ensuring operational, clinical quality, financial and corporate agreement is achieved and sufficient financial contribution is assured.8. Ensure all new business opportunities within the contract portfolio that are sought have sound business cases with the correct levels of authorisation, planning and financial input.9. Ensure that contract management processes within the service portfolio are robust and correctly documented, and that the operation of contracts meets the needs of the organisation in terms of quality and financial return.10. Work with the Operational leads to develop and implement strategies to increase market share in other business lines if appropriate.11. To support engagement with Integrated Care Systems and associated boards / work streams to ensure that the impacts of any system-wide transformation proposals are modelled and costed appropriately, in line with the organisational strategy, to feed into system-wide negotiations.12. Deputise for the Deputy Director of Business and Partnerships when appropriate.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Masters qualification in either, business management, finance or a Health Policy related subject or equivalent education level or experience in similar role
• Evidence of post qualification development

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

• Relevant general management experience at senior level
• Relevant experience of managing business process, contract management or responding to commission intentions at a senior management level
• Performance management including physical and financial resources
• Experience of business planning processes
• Experience of managing technology for business uses
• Project management
• Able to deal with difficult contract negotiations

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

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Employer details

Employer name

East of England Ambulance Service

Address

Flexible

Home worker

Essex area

SG8 6NA

Employer's website

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