Senior Commercial Contract Manager - Clinical

Are you a leader in Commercial Contract Management? Do you want to make a real difference to patient lives and drive healthcare innovation? Do you enjoy building and nurturing a new team of commercial contract management experts? If yes, then we want to hear from you.

We are recruiting for a dynamic Senior Commercial Contract Manager - Clinical, Band 8B.

We are excited to be setting up a best-in-class commercial contract management 'Centre of Excellence' for the Barts Health NHS Trust for management of approximately £200m pa of long term gold, silver, and bronze tier contracts.

The 'Centre of Excellence' has the full support of the executive board and key stakeholders with the Head of Commercial Contract Management leadership position reporting directly to the Chief Procurement Officer. Our mission is to now move beyond concept stage to implementation, covering a vast range of clinical and corporate departments ranging from Pathology, Pharmacy, Clinical Support to Informatics and Corporate.

Main duties of the job

Clinical CCM key duties

1. Lead the clinical departments (Clinical, Clinical Services, Pathology, Pharmacy, Diagnostics, and Clinical Support) for the Commercial Contract Management function at Barts Health NHS Trust.
2. Support Trust stakeholders and Head of Commercial Contract Management and act as the day-to-day face of the governance system for the departments in the go-to-market strategy.
3. Provide expert commercial contract management of up to £100m+ of Gold, Silver and selected Bronze clinical contracts.
4. Provide guidance and support on the drafting of legal documents and implementation of contract changes eg. Contract Change Notices.
5. Lead complex Contract and Contractor's negotiations and support the Head of CCM by providing high quality negotiation advice to senior stakeholders and clinicians.
6. Work in a multi-disciplinary team that includes clinicians and close liaison with providers and other associates. As such the role requires excellent inter-personal skills.
7. Play a key supporting role with the further embedding of the Trust's Social Value Framework, the Green Plan and Sustainability policies to deliver better outcomes for patient and local communities, including SMEs.

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.

Job responsibilities

We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Four years' experience in a commissioning or contract management environment within a Health & Social Care setting.
• Significant prior experience in delivering projects under contractual arrangements.
• Detailed understanding of legal contracts and negotiation.
• Demonstrated experience co-ordinating projects in a complex and challenging environment.
• Good experience of using data and information to understand issues and to formulate recommendations and decisions.
• Experience of working across organisational boundaries.
• Experience of working across a multi-disciplined environment, successfully leading multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
• Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders.
• Specific Clinical Contract Management expertise.

Desirable

• Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment.

Skills

Essential

• Able to establish and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues, other organisations and clinicians both internally and externally.
• Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
• Computer literacy, including Moderate to Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel/Access and PowerPoint.
• Ability to formulate decisions and recommendations using views and perspectives that may be in conflict or uncertain.
• Ability to think clearly and rationally under pressure of time and competing demands and interests.
• Confidence to manage a complex and diverse workload. Ability to meet deadlines and targets effectively. Ability to make informed decisions in the absence of required information.

Knowledge

Essential

• Highly developed specialist knowledge of Contract Law and PCR regulations, acquired from both academic theory and experience. - NHS or Public sector experience is desirable.
• Highly developed specialist knowledge of Contract Law.

Qualifications

Essential

• Education to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
• Membership of (or studying for) the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS) or other relevant professional qualification.
• Post Graduate degree in Management Studies or equivalent.

Desirable

• MBA or equivalent experience.

Other

Essential

• Commitment to continuing professional development.
• Ability to travel offsite when required.

Employer details

Employer name

Barts Health NHS Trust

Address

Canary Wharf
20 Churchill Place
London
E14 5HJ

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

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