Strategy and Transformation Director

Job summary

NHS Blood and Transplant help people to do something extraordinary - donate blood, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need. As a National Provider and Arms Length Body of the Department of Health and Social Care, we play a unique and special role in the NHS. First and foremost, we are a healthcare organisation within the NHS and have front-line services providing care for donors and patients. Technically, we are a biomedical manufacturer and supply chain organisation, providing critical products and services for transfusion, transplantation, and cellular therapies. At our heart, however, we are an organisation that enables daily acts of altruism connecting blood, organ and stem cell donors with the patients who need them. We are looking for a Strategic Transformation Leader who can collaborate closely with the Executive and Senior Leadership team. The Strategic Transformation Lead is dedicated to articulating, driving, and leading the intricate change essential for delivering the NHSBT vision and strategy. The Strategic Transformation Lead's role extends to providing inspirational leadership to the central and embedded Strategy and PPM senior leaders and professionals across the organisation, all working towards the collective goal of realizing the NHSBT vision and strategy. Furthermore, the commitment is to modernize the function into a data and evidence-driven entity, implementing automated processes to enhance productivity and decision-making.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will work with the Executive team to describe, drive and lead the complex change required to deliver the NHSBT vision and strategy and to ensure that a credible and compelling transformation programme exists to deliver strategic change that increases the value that NHSBT adds to the wider healthcare system. Your responsibilities will include: Driving, leading, and delivering complex change at pace to deliver the outcomes in the NHSBT strategy, ensuring involvement and engagement with key stakeholders. Maintaining and refreshing the NHSBT strategy and leading on business planning and performance management processes. This includes working with the Executive team to align NHSBTs investment in change to the strategic roadmap to deliver the strategic outcomes. To provide inspirational leadership to the central and embedded Strategy and PPM senior leaders and professionals across the organisation in service of delivering the NHSBT vision and strategy. Modernising the function to one that is data and evidence driven with processes automated to improvement productivity and improved decision making. You will be required to travel and spend time away from base, which will involve working irregular hours and overnight stays when required, with prior notice

About us

At NHS Blood and Transplant, were incredibly proud of the many talented people who come together every day to make our organisation the very best it can be. We have clearly defined values that are centred around offering exceptional care to our donors and their families. We take care of each other too and we focus on building our expertise so we can change lives, provide quality support and offer fulfilling careers. Its an opportunity to contribute to a unique team as part of a service that saves lives 365 days a year. We offer brilliant benefits including 27 days of holiday (plus bank holidays), a comprehensive induction and training programme, and competitive pension scheme. We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with and positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever