Job summary
The Senior business consultant role will have a vital role in delivering projects and organising business management across the Health Economics Unit.
The role is split between managing the unit's business management processes, where you'll oversee the operations of the unit and be integral in making sure we are efficient and effective. You'll also help deliver and coordinate outstanding projects from start to end.
The Senior business consultant will work directly with clients to support their needs, work collaboratively with all members of the HEU team on both project delivery and business management and provide line management support.
Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit recognises the value serving personnel, reservists, veterans, and military families bring to our business and would encourage people from the armed forces community to apply for our vacancies.
Main duties of the job
Key responsibilities
We are looking someone who can:
Project management and delivery
Overseeing business management activities
Stakeholder management
Line management
Financial management of projects
About us
The NHS is the biggest employer in Europe. It's a world-renowned institution and an exciting place to work, full of challenges and opportunities.
NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU) is one of the biggest and best-performing commissioning support units in the country, with among the highest levels of staff and customer satisfaction. We work together as a team of over 1,600 expert staff based across the Midlands and North West to make a difference - for our customers, patients and communities.
Offering a full range of professional services to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), hospital trusts, local authorities, integrated care systems (ICSs) and other public bodies\ across the country, our NHS values underpin everything we do.
The Health Economics Unit is a specialist team hosted by the NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU).
In return, we provide a supportive environment in which to learn and develop, with the opportunity to further your skills and career within an exciting and evolving environment.
Joining our inclusive and innovative team comes with a range of benefits including flexible & agile working arrangements, pension scheme and generous annual leave allowance.
With our training schemes and support networks, you will be empowered to play a leading role in the future of healthcare, whatever your specialism or interest. And as a member of NHS staff you will receive plenty of discounts too.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Project management and delivery
- Manage small, medium and large projects, taking operational responsibility for delivery, ensuring that other team members are aware of their responsibilities and that they complete them to time / quality / budget. Demonstrate first-rate interpersonal skills, alongside an analytical mindset.
- Work on complex projects with several different parts, bringing people together and ensuring projects move forward successfully.
- Plan projects, monitor progress, and adjust where necessary. Negotiate with clients and stakeholders to ensure project success where plans change.
- Manage risks and interdependencies to deliver your own work programme and anticipate and communicate the impact on others work areas.
- Project manage and deliver the HEU strategies, working with the relevant strategy team and leads
- Work on a range of workstreams at any one time. Be calm under pressure and able to juggle competing priorities and tight deadlines
Overseeing business management activities
- Manage the Unit's contracting, income, and expenditure processes.
- Oversee the Units support inbox, ensuring that all tasks are completed quickly and effectively.
- Oversee the financial and contracting aspects of all projects across the Unit, ensuring that key performance indicators (KPIs) are met.
- Identify where business management processes may not have been completed correctly and work with teams to rectify this.
- Act as a specialist and lead on developing business management processes and activities, continually improving our governance while minimising workloads wherever possible.
- Monitor expenditure against the Units budget.
- Maintain financial records and ensure they are accurate and up-to-date.
- Undertake business management activities where required
Stakeholder management
- Communicate with project teams and colleagues, both internally and externally, on a range of issues. This could be to ensure that teams are aware of actions and upcoming milestones, to liaise with clients on project progress or occasionally difficult news, such as project issues, or to give presentations to HEU staff or to clients.
- Horizon-scan and identify potential issues before they occur, and work to resolve issues where they do occur.
- Make judgements where there are conflicting views and make decisions where necessary, working with all parties to achieve buy-in.
- Be able to synthesise multiple sources to communicate on complex issues.
Line management
- Provide direct line management support to other team members, as well as supporting the supervision and development of other team members as part of a matrix working model.
- Proactively provide training and share knowledge on areas of expertise.
Financial management of projects
- Ensure that projects are delivered to budget, including the cost of own time spent on a project, and where potential for budget deviation is identified, flag the issue as early as possible.
- Create and monitor project and programme budgets, ensuring that resources are used efficiently and any deviation to the budget is communicated internally and to clients
- Create and maintain financial and other records relating to projects and other work delivered
Other responsibilities
- Be a valued member of the Health Economics Unit team, engaging and investing in the teams strategies, and reputation for excellence, while supporting, encouraging and motivating others within the team.
- Reflect our values, being passionate, collaborative and outstanding in everything you do, and actively contribute towards achieving our vision and mission.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Project management and delivery
- Manage small, medium and large projects, taking operational responsibility for delivery, ensuring that other team members are aware of their responsibilities and that they complete them to time / quality / budget. Demonstrate first-rate interpersonal skills, alongside an analytical mindset.
- Work on complex projects with several different parts, bringing people together and ensuring projects move forward successfully.
- Plan projects, monitor progress, and adjust where necessary. Negotiate with clients and stakeholders to ensure project success where plans change.
- Manage risks and interdependencies to deliver your own work programme and anticipate and communicate the impact on others work areas.
- Project manage and deliver the HEU strategies, working with the relevant strategy team and leads
- Work on a range of workstreams at any one time. Be calm under pressure and able to juggle competing priorities and tight deadlines
Overseeing business management activities
- Manage the Unit's contracting, income, and expenditure processes.
- Oversee the Units support inbox, ensuring that all tasks are completed quickly and effectively.
- Oversee the financial and contracting aspects of all projects across the Unit, ensuring that key performance indicators (KPIs) are met.
- Identify where business management processes may not have been completed correctly and work with teams to rectify this.
- Act as a specialist and lead on developing business management processes and activities, continually improving our governance while minimising workloads wherever possible.
- Monitor expenditure against the Units budget.
- Maintain financial records and ensure they are accurate and up-to-date.
- Undertake business management activities where required
Stakeholder management
- Communicate with project teams and colleagues, both internally and externally, on a range of issues. This could be to ensure that teams are aware of actions and upcoming milestones, to liaise with clients on project progress or occasionally difficult news, such as project issues, or to give presentations to HEU staff or to clients.
- Horizon-scan and identify potential issues before they occur, and work to resolve issues where they do occur.
- Make judgements where there are conflicting views and make decisions where necessary, working with all parties to achieve buy-in.
- Be able to synthesise multiple sources to communicate on complex issues.
Line management
- Provide direct line management support to other team members, as well as supporting the supervision and development of other team members as part of a matrix working model.
- Proactively provide training and share knowledge on areas of expertise.
Financial management of projects
- Ensure that projects are delivered to budget, including the cost of own time spent on a project, and where potential for budget deviation is identified, flag the issue as early as possible.
- Create and monitor project and programme budgets, ensuring that resources are used efficiently and any deviation to the budget is communicated internally and to clients
- Create and maintain financial and other records relating to projects and other work delivered
Other responsibilities
- Be a valued member of the Health Economics Unit team, engaging and investing in the teams strategies, and reputation for excellence, while supporting, encouraging and motivating others within the team.
- Reflect our values, being passionate, collaborative and outstanding in everything you do, and actively contribute towards achieving our vision and mission.
Person Specification
Project Management
Essential
- Manage small, medium and large projects
- Managing budgets
- Line and project team management
Stakeholder management
Essential
- Communicate with project teams and colleagues
- Horizon-scan and identify potential issues before they occur, and work to resolve issues where they do occur
- Be able to synthesise multiple sources to communicate on complex issues.
Financial management of projects
Essential
- Ensure that projects are delivered to budget
- Create and monitor project and programme budgets
- Create and maintain financial and other records
Person Specification
Project Management
Essential
- Manage small, medium and large projects
- Managing budgets
- Line and project team management
Stakeholder management
Essential
- Communicate with project teams and colleagues
- Horizon-scan and identify potential issues before they occur, and work to resolve issues where they do occur
- Be able to synthesise multiple sources to communicate on complex issues.
Financial management of projects
Essential
- Ensure that projects are delivered to budget
- Create and monitor project and programme budgets
- Create and maintain financial and other records
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
