Location
Barbican Support Centre, London | Hybrid Working

Hours
Full-Time - 37.5 hours per week

Salary
Negotiable, depending on experience

About the Role
At Nuffield Health, our purpose is to build a healthier nation. As a Customer Service Partner Manager, you will play a pivotal role in managing and developing our outsourced contact centre partnerships, ensuring they deliver exceptional customer experiences while supporting our commercial and operational objectives. You will work closely with Hospital Operations, Customer Services, Procurement, Finance and Technology teams, acting as the primary relationship owner for outsourced customer service providers. Your responsibilities include driving operational performance, commercial value, customer satisfaction and continuous improvement across our partner network.

This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially minded relationship manager with strong vendor management experience who enjoys building strategic partnerships, influencing performance, and delivering measurable results within a customer-focused environment.

Key responsibilities include:
- Acting as the primary relationship owner for outsourced contact centre partners, building strong partnerships that support customer experience, operational excellence and business growth.
- Leading regular business reviews and governance meetings, ensuring partner performance aligns with agreed objectives and commitments.
- Monitoring and challenging performance against KPIs, SLAs and customer experience measures, implementing improvement plans where required.
- Driving continuous improvement, innovation and service enhancements across customer journeys and operational processes.
- Supporting contract management, commercial negotiations and supplier renewals in partnership with Procurement and key stakeholders.
- Managing supplier budgets, expenditure and value delivery, ensuring maximum return on investment.
- Ensuring all outsourced services comply with contractual, regulatory, information security and data protection requirements.
- Building effective relationships across Operations, Customer Services, Finance, Technology and Procurement, providing performance insights and recommendations to senior stakeholders.

Experience
Proven experience managing outsourced service providers, strategic suppliers or third-party customer service partnerships. Strong vendor and contract management expertise, with the ability to drive accountability and performance improvement. Experience managing KPIs, SLAs and customer experience metrics within a customer-focused environment.

About you
Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building skills, with confidence engaging and influencing senior leaders. Strong commercial and financial awareness, including budget management and supplier value optimisation. Ability to analyse performance data and translate insights into actionable improvements. Excellent communication, presentation and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively. A proactive, collaborative and results-focused approach, ideally gained within healthcare, contact centre or service-based environments.

Qualifications
No specific qualifications are stated; however, relevant experience and skills as outlined above are essential.