Job summary
We are looking for a Managing Director to join the team and lead the ongoing development and growth of our business, driving operational excellence and strategic development in a dynamic and rapidly evolving healthcare landscape.
This role is responsible for steering KFM towards achieving our business objectives, strengthening both supplier and customer relationships, and ensuring outstanding service delivery across all functions.
This is an exciting opportunity to impact healthcare support services at scale, with a view to further growth and development of the business.
What We Offer
An opportunity to lead a growing organization making a tangible impact on healthcare support services, with a competitive remuneration package and a commitment to professional development.
Application
Instructions
To find out more about this exceptional opportunity, please
see www.odgers.com/90804
for a candidate brief containing application instructions, or contact Donna
Fendick on 020 7518 2612 to arrange a confidential discussion.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities
- Lead KFM's senior leadership team in delivering our strategic aims, fostering a culture of innovation, efficiency, and continuous improvement.
- Build and sustain robust, productive relationships with key stakeholders including KCH, as customer and owner, as well as the wider NHS and other healthcare partners, to enhance service quality and value.
- Drive operational excellence to ensure KFMs services meet customer requirements and industry standards and deliver exceptional client satisfaction.
- Oversee financial performance, ensuring sustainability and growth in alignment with our objectives.
- Identify and manage strategic risks, guiding KFM through an evolving healthcare sector.
Qualifications & Experience
- Extensive experience in senior leadership roles within healthcare, support services or similar sectors.
- Proven track record of strategic and operational success in complex, regulated environments.
- Strong financial acumen and experience in managing large-scale budgets.
- Excellent interpersonal skills to build effective relationships with clients, stakeholders, and team members.
About us
KFM is a provider of healthcare support services our purpose is to partner with and support healthcare providers in providing world class patient care,with all profits and cost savings reinvested in the NHS.
KFM provides fully managed services across all clinical areas which includes providing all required clinical supplies and equipment along with maintenance, training and technical support, endoscopy decontamination, sterile services, renal dialysis support, radiology systems support and outpatient pharmacy. KFM also runs a procurement and contract management service for all departments.
KFM is a Limited Liability Partnership owned by King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust with no private sector partners. KFM is a public authority not a private company. KFM has an annual turnover of around £185 million and over 350 staff.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to attached job description.
Application Instructions
To find out more about this exceptional opportunity, please
see www.odgers.com/90804
for a candidate brief containing application instructions, or contact Donna
Fendick on 020 7518 2612 to arrange a confidential discussion.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to attached job description.
Application Instructions
To find out more about this exceptional opportunity, please
see www.odgers.com/90804
for a candidate brief containing application instructions, or contact Donna
Fendick on 020 7518 2612 to arrange a confidential discussion.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- - Educated to degree level or equivalent level of experience
- - Evidence of postgraduate studies or experience equivalent to that of an MSc/MBA
- - Professional management qualification
Desirable
- - Experience in programme management practices, or qualification, would be desirable
Experience
Essential
- - Solid experience at or near board level, taking responsibility and accountability for meeting a wide range of business and service performance targets.
- - Successful track record of business and service delivery in a complex, customer centred environment, ideally although not exclusively within healthcare.
- - Demonstrable experience of utilising lean / efficiency methodologies at a cross organisational level
- - Demonstrable experience of highly commercial approaches that delivered new business.
- - Demonstrable experience of developing innovative solutions that deliver growth and add value to business and financial performance.
- - Proven experience of leading complex, multi-faceted change and programmes aimed at delivering organisational transformation and raising performance.
- - Extensive experience of leading / contributing to the development of and implementing organisational strategy, transforming vision into solid action at all levels.
- - Experience of leading digital transformation programmes and supporting the realisation of benefits from these.
- - Track record of leading and contributing collaboratively as part of a high performing team.
- - Track record of effective partnership working across complex networks, delivering through influence and negotiation.
Desirable
- - Knowledge & experience of working with clients across the Health/Public sector would be desirable
Personal Qualities and Attributes
Essential
- - Drive, energy and enthusiasm to deliver end results and improvements.
- - Emotional intelligence and resilience to operate in a challenging and complex environment.
- - Gravitas and credibility that makes an impact with senior internal & external stakeholders.
- - High standards of self and others, being a role model for optimal performance.
- - Influential with a high degree or integrity, able to lead teams to achieve shared purpose and common goals
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- - Exceptional leadership skills with significant experience of dealing directly with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
- - Highly effective communication skills and able to articulate complex issues to a wide range of recipients, both written and verbally.
- - Excellent presentation skills with the ability to engage and influence diverse audiences.
- - Strong interpersonal and negotiating skills, with the ability to engage, build and sustain effective relationships across a wide range of stakeholders.
- - Excellent organisational and time management skills to meet competing priorities.
- - Able to make informed decisions and take calculated risks, seeing required action through.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- - Educated to degree level or equivalent level of experience
- - Evidence of postgraduate studies or experience equivalent to that of an MSc/MBA
- - Professional management qualification
Desirable
- - Experience in programme management practices, or qualification, would be desirable
Experience
Essential
- - Solid experience at or near board level, taking responsibility and accountability for meeting a wide range of business and service performance targets.
- - Successful track record of business and service delivery in a complex, customer centred environment, ideally although not exclusively within healthcare.
- - Demonstrable experience of utilising lean / efficiency methodologies at a cross organisational level
- - Demonstrable experience of highly commercial approaches that delivered new business.
- - Demonstrable experience of developing innovative solutions that deliver growth and add value to business and financial performance.
- - Proven experience of leading complex, multi-faceted change and programmes aimed at delivering organisational transformation and raising performance.
- - Extensive experience of leading / contributing to the development of and implementing organisational strategy, transforming vision into solid action at all levels.
- - Experience of leading digital transformation programmes and supporting the realisation of benefits from these.
- - Track record of leading and contributing collaboratively as part of a high performing team.
- - Track record of effective partnership working across complex networks, delivering through influence and negotiation.
Desirable
- - Knowledge & experience of working with clients across the Health/Public sector would be desirable
Personal Qualities and Attributes
Essential
- - Drive, energy and enthusiasm to deliver end results and improvements.
- - Emotional intelligence and resilience to operate in a challenging and complex environment.
- - Gravitas and credibility that makes an impact with senior internal & external stakeholders.
- - High standards of self and others, being a role model for optimal performance.
- - Influential with a high degree or integrity, able to lead teams to achieve shared purpose and common goals
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- - Exceptional leadership skills with significant experience of dealing directly with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
- - Highly effective communication skills and able to articulate complex issues to a wide range of recipients, both written and verbally.
- - Excellent presentation skills with the ability to engage and influence diverse audiences.
- - Strong interpersonal and negotiating skills, with the ability to engage, build and sustain effective relationships across a wide range of stakeholders.
- - Excellent organisational and time management skills to meet competing priorities.
- - Able to make informed decisions and take calculated risks, seeing required action through.
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.
