Job responsibilities
Key success factors:
Leading innovation development experience leading teams to identify and define opportunities for innovation and supporting innovators to develop and test innovative solutions with the potential to deliver impact in the real world.
Leading innovation partnerships experience leading teams to develop cross-sector partnerships between the public, private and academic sectors to test, develop and evaluate innovative solutions that deliver impact on agreed regional health system priorities and generate economic growth.
Leading innovation management experience leading teams to develop and manage large and complex portfolios of innovation projects and partnerships.
Leading specialist teams experience leading teams of specialists with a background in innovation development, quantitative and qualitative evaluation and with an understanding of how to get the best from technical and analytical professionals.
Leading people a track record of managing and developing diverse, inclusive and high performing teams in a matrix-working environment.
Executive leadership ability to build trusted relationships with Board and Executive Team members, develop and maintain a collaborative enterprise first Executive Team culture and guide executive and board decision making in a complex and changing environment.
Flexibility and adaptability comfortable with change, managing teams in ambiguous contexts and with the ability to look around problems, adapt approaches and make hard choices to achieve goals.
Commercially astute experiencing leading teams to grow and diversify income through effective business development and delivery of commercially sustainable activities, with the ability to be effective at both strategic and operational levels in a small organisation environment.
Data, evidence and insight committed to putting data, evidence and the experience of the public and patients at the center of how design, develop and deliver our work.
Commitment to our values and to improving population health and health & care services for people living in the South West.
People: collective responsibility for leading, developing and ensuring the effective working of our wider Senior Leadership Team.
Executive Team shared responsibilities:
Income generation: collective responsibility for generating a strong business development pipeline and delivering enterprise level income generation targets of circa £6m per annum.
Profit and loss: collective responsibility for delivering enterprise level profit and loss in line with an annual budget agreed with the Board.
Resource allocation: collective responsibility for ensuring effective allocation of resource to business plan priorities and projects.
Performance and delivery: collective responsibility for ensuring delivery of our annual business plan and key performance indicators
Risk: collective responsibility for identifying and mitigating enterprise level risks.
Account management: collective responsibility to ensuring effective management of our relationships with key partners, commissioners and customers.
People: collective responsibility for leading, developing and ensuring the effective working of our wider Senior Leadership Team.
Individual executive responsibilities:
Innovation development: leading our support to partners to understand complex problems, utilise relevant data and insights to define opportunities for innovation and identify innovative solutions aligned to defined regional priorities.
Innovation partnerships: leading our support developing partnerships between the health and care system, academic, commercial and VCSE sector to test and evaluate innovation in the real world, generate economic growth in our region and to prepare innovative projects and partnerships for adoption and spread across the region and beyond.
Innovation management: leading our support to partners to triage and manage a pipeline of innovation projects aligned to agreed regional priorities and ensuring our systems, structures and approaches enable a single front door to innovators into our region.
Project/ programme delivery: leading and ensuring effective delivery of large and complex portfolios of innovation projects, including ensuring quality of project delivery, customer/ commissioner satisfaction, commercial viability of the project, effective invoicing, cash collection and project closure.
Executive leadership: be an engaged, collaborative, and active member of our Board, Executive and Senior Leadership Team, influencing discussions and collectively leading our organisations vision, strategy, operational capacity and values.
Income generation: generating a strong business development pipeline from customer/ commissioner accounts and delivering individual income targets through a defined project delivery portfolio.
Profit and loss: delivering annual profit and loss in line with agreed budget expectations for projects within their executive portfolio.
Account management: oversight and management of key partners, commissioners and customers, including executive responsibility for our relationship and work with 1 of 3 of our ICSs partners and leading our relationships with the Office for Life Sciences, industry partners and local economic development partners.
Priority/ thematic leadership: oversight of our knowledge development, project portfolio and contribution to least one of the regional research and innovation priorities agreed with our partners.
People: direct line management responsibility for c.3 senior managers and overall responsibility for a team of c. 24 roles.
Internal relationships: develop close working relationships with colleagues from across the organisation, working flexibly and adopting a one team approach across the organisation.
What youll need to succeed:
Experience we are looking for:
Experience leading organisations and partnerships to identify and deliver value from innovation, with a demonstrable interest in digitally enabled innovation. Health and care sector experience is desirable, but not essential.
Experience developing large-scale, cross sector partnerships between the public and private sectors to test, develop and deliver value from innovation.
Experience managing large and complex portfolios of innovation projects and partnerships.
Experience leading teams of specialists and with an understanding of how to get the best from technical and analytical professionals.
Experience working at a senior level in a complex organisation, ideally with Board level experience.
Experience leading successful business development and income generation.
Experience, or significant understanding and knowledge of, working in a limited company (CLG or CLS).
Experience managing effective partnerships with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders.
Experience and capabilities you will develop in the role:
Experience leading a delivery focused directorate in a complex, innovative and fast-moving environment.
Experience supporting partners across public and private sectors to increase the value and impact of innovation at a regional level.
Experience working in an Executive Team transforming lives through health and care innovation.
Our Values
- We are impact-led - we are solutions focused, action orientated and adapt plans to achieve desired end goals.
- We are improvement focused - we seek to understand problems, look at things from different angles, test ideas and learn from our experiences.
- We are collaborative - we value diversity of perspectives, commit to and place trust in others to contribute towards collective goals.
Responsible to: Chief Executive Officer
