Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
£64,156 per annum

About the Role
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is one of the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts, providing a full range of hospital and community services for south London and specialist care for patients from further afield. The Trust is renowned for clinical excellence, teaching, research, and innovation, and is part of King’s Health Partners, an accredited UK academic health sciences centre.

The Senior Business Manager role is a critical position delivering high quality business support to the CEO Private Office. This fast-paced role requires a dynamic, proactive, and highly organised individual with solid people management skills. The post holder will manage and enable the CEO’s priorities, providing direct managerial and strategic support to ensure all activity is coordinated and actioned at pace across one of the largest and most complex NHS trusts.

The role involves managing the CEO’s diary and commitments, commissioning and drafting quality briefing materials, and ensuring delivery of CEO actions. The Senior Business Manager will also support the Head of Private Office and Chief of Staff in managing the CEO’s Private Office and undertake any other duties necessary for the efficient running of the Private Office and Corporate Affairs function.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ employs over 24,000 staff, with an annual turnover exceeding £1.7 billion and over 2.6 million patient contacts annually. The Trust is committed to developing services to best meet patient needs, including flexible working patterns and a strong corporate social responsibility agenda.

Experience
- Extensive experience working with very senior individuals, particularly at board level
- Proven ability to work under pressure with strict deadlines and manage complex issues with conflicting priorities
- Experience managing senior management diaries and resolving scheduling conflicts
- Desirable: Experience dealing with complex complaints

About you
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage competing demands and high workloads
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships at all organisational levels
- High-level analytical skills with strategic, tactical, and creative thinking abilities
- High computer literacy
- Strong collaboration skills to foster successful internal and external partnerships
- Leadership skills and effective teamwork
- Ability to meet competing deadlines and work flexibly
- Ability to listen, question, and challenge ideas appropriately
- Commitment to openness, honesty, and integrity
- Self-motivated with a drive for performance and improvement

Qualifications
- Degree level education or equivalent knowledge
- Relevant management training or equivalent experience
- Desirable: Experience working in an executive NHS private office