Market Management Director

NHS England

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Job summary

Market Management Director - New Hospital Programme

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Market Management Director to lead our market management team within the New Hospital Programme (NHP). This role is pivotal in shaping and sustaining a market capable of delivering the innovative and ambitious goals of the NHS's Health Infrastructure Plan.

About the Role: As the Market Management Director, you will develop and implement strategies to ensure the market has the right capability and capacity to meet NHP's requirements. You will lead a team at the heart of NHP's delivery efforts, engaging with senior leadership and managing supplier performance to drive continuous improvement.

About the Team: The New Hospital Programme is dedicated to transforming hospital construction, achieving significant savings through repeatable design, modern construction methods, new clinical planning approaches, and innovations in sustainability and digital technology. You will be part of a forward-thinking team committed to these goals.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities:

  • Leadership: Represent NHP as an expert and thought leader in Market Management. Develop and lead the Industrial and Market Management strategies and objectives, ensuring alignment with NHP's overall goals. Act as a senior national role model for inclusion and programme values.
  • Industrial Strategy: Identify the strategic focus to engage industry on for the NHP, providing the structure and direction of change needed to enable the delivery of the NHP. Work across the programme to create a robust implementation plan to deliver the change with industry.
  • Market Strategy: Create and implement a sustainable Market Strategy to build a resilient and diverse national pool of suppliers. Ensure the market can deliver innovative solutions and meet NHP's capacity requirements.
  • Supplier Performance: Lead supplier performance management, ensuring compliance with Service Level Agreements and Key Performance Indicators. Drive continuous improvement and innovation in supplier engagement.
  • Market Engagement: Develop and execute a comprehensive Market Engagement Strategy to attract and manage suppliers. Engage with industry to identify innovative contracting models and enhance market capability and capacity.
  • Market Analysis: Oversee market analysis to assess supplier capability and capacity, inform pre-contract strategies, and ensure the market can deliver the latest innovations.

About us

The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:

  • Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
  • Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
  • Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
  • Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
  • Delivering value for money.

If you would like to know more or require further information, please visithttps://www.england.nhs.uk/.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

Date posted

19 August 2024

Pay scheme

Very senior manager (VSM)

Salary

£100,000 to £131,300 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

990-NHP-6525796-E

Job locations

Any NHSE Office

National

SE1 8UG


Job description

Job responsibilities

Essential Qualifications and Experience:

  • Educated to a masters level or equivalent experience in a similar role within large, complex organizations.
  • Extensive experience in stakeholder and supplier relationship management.
  • Proven track record in delivering complex transactions and organisational change.
  • Strong leadership and strategic planning skills.

Desirable Attributes:

  • Relevant professional qualifications in programme or contract management.
  • Experience in the health sector or public sector procurement.
  • Commercial experience in the manufacturing and infrastructure industries.

Join us in this challenging and rewarding role where your expertise will contribute to the successful delivery of the New Hospital Programme, shaping the future of healthcare infrastructure.

You can find further details about the job, organisational structure, recruitment profile, expected outcomes and benefits information in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore, please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Essential Qualifications and Experience:

  • Educated to a masters level or equivalent experience in a similar role within large, complex organizations.
  • Extensive experience in stakeholder and supplier relationship management.
  • Proven track record in delivering complex transactions and organisational change.
  • Strong leadership and strategic planning skills.

Desirable Attributes:

  • Relevant professional qualifications in programme or contract management.
  • Experience in the health sector or public sector procurement.
  • Commercial experience in the manufacturing and infrastructure industries.

Join us in this challenging and rewarding role where your expertise will contribute to the successful delivery of the New Hospital Programme, shaping the future of healthcare infrastructure.

You can find further details about the job, organisational structure, recruitment profile, expected outcomes and benefits information in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore, please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in large and complex organisations, delivering complex projects.
  • Relevant professional qualification commensurate with experience.

Experience

Essential

  • Extensive experience in stakeholder and supplier relationship management.
  • Successful track record of delivery of proactive stakeholder engagement with evidence of measurable impact.
  • Delivery of complex transactions in the public or private sector.
  • Experience in programme management and structuring the delivery of complex work, incorporating multiple inputs and stakeholders, management of fluctuating workload and associated resource management.

Skills, Abilities and Attributes

Essential

  • An outstanding communicator, both in person and in writing, with the ability to present advice and information in a clear and logical way and effectively communicate on highly complex matters.
  • Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills.
  • Established stakeholder management (Senior/ Board Level).
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in large and complex organisations, delivering complex projects.
  • Relevant professional qualification commensurate with experience.

Experience

Essential

  • Extensive experience in stakeholder and supplier relationship management.
  • Successful track record of delivery of proactive stakeholder engagement with evidence of measurable impact.
  • Delivery of complex transactions in the public or private sector.
  • Experience in programme management and structuring the delivery of complex work, incorporating multiple inputs and stakeholders, management of fluctuating workload and associated resource management.

Skills, Abilities and Attributes

Essential

  • An outstanding communicator, both in person and in writing, with the ability to present advice and information in a clear and logical way and effectively communicate on highly complex matters.
  • Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills.
  • Established stakeholder management (Senior/ Board Level).

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Additional information

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

NHS England

Address

Any NHSE Office

National

SE1 8UG


Employer's website

https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/working-for/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

NHS England

Address

Any NHSE Office

National

SE1 8UG


Employer's website

https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/working-for/ (Opens in a new tab)


For questions about the job, contact:

Recruitment Manager

Hannah Parker

england.nhppeople@nhs.net

Date posted

19 August 2024

Pay scheme

Very senior manager (VSM)

Salary

£100,000 to £131,300 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

990-NHP-6525796-E

Job locations

Any NHSE Office

National

SE1 8UG


Supporting documents

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