Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
£86,114 per annum

About the Role
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts, providing a comprehensive range of hospital and community services across south London and specialist care nationally. The Trust is home to leading centres including the largest dental school in Europe, a £160 million Cancer Centre, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, and one of the largest critical care units in the UK. In 2021, the Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals joined the Trust, creating a world-renowned heart and lung centre.

This senior operational and strategic delivery role supports the implementation of a major, long-term international co-branding and strategic partnership approved by the Trust Board. The postholder will lead programme mobilisation, contract delivery, and ongoing partnership management, ensuring contractual commitments are met and delivery is coordinated across clinical, operational, and corporate teams.

The role acts as the day-to-day lead for the partnership, translating contractual requirements into operational delivery plans, establishing governance structures, coordinating teams, and managing performance, risk, and reporting. The successful candidate will help position Guy’s and St Thomas’ as a world-leading provider of private healthcare, strategic partnerships, co-branding opportunities, and consulting projects.

Key Responsibilities
- Lead mobilisation and delivery of a complex co-branding partnership including governance setup and readiness to commence services
- Act as primary interface between the Trust and international partner
- Coordinate delivery across clinical groups and corporate teams
- Oversee delivery against contractual KPIs and reporting, escalating risks and issues
- Support contract management, performance assurance, and relationship management
- Prepare senior-level updates and assurance reports for internal stakeholders

Main Duties
- Support development, negotiation, and delivery of high-impact international and UK partnerships and consulting projects aligned with the Trust’s international commercial strategy
- Lead delivery of new projects, strategic initiatives, and commercial relationships to grow international income and enhance global presence
- Work closely with clinical leads and operational teams to align partnership delivery with governance and clinical priorities
- Collaborate with Specialist Care, Commercial Education and Events, and CITI teams to identify shared commercial opportunities
- Support evaluation of new inbound opportunities and prepare strategic proposals and business cases
- Represent the Trust at industry forums and strategic discussions
- Build and manage high-value relationships with international clients, healthcare organisations, and government bodies
- Clearly communicate the Trust’s international offer including private patient services, partnerships, consulting, education, and events
- Oversee project budgeting, invoicing, financial tracking, and risk management
- Prepare regular reports and board-level papers on project performance and strategic alignment

International Working
This role requires international travel to support delivery, relationship management, and governance activities. Applicants must be comfortable working across different healthcare systems and cultures. Arabic language skills are advantageous but not essential.

Working for Guy’s and St Thomas’ Consulting
The Consulting team delivers commercial projects and strategic partnerships worldwide, generating income reinvested into frontline NHS clinical services. The team supports the Trust’s international reputation and helps diversify income streams beyond core NHS funding.

Flexible Working
The Trust supports flexible working arrangements to help employees achieve a healthy work-life balance, considering individual circumstances and service needs.

Experience
- Minimum of three years’ managerial experience within NHS organisations, government health bodies, or international partners, preferably with commercial responsibilities
- Significant experience in developing, designing, and implementing projects or partnerships, including healthcare consulting or partnership delivery
- Proven track record of commercial and strategic working with senior managers and directors
- Experience negotiating and managing complex commercial agreements
- Experience working across clinical and corporate teams to deliver formal agreements
- Experience managing senior stakeholder relationships professionally
- Experience of international work, large-scale partnerships, or commercially funded programmes is highly beneficial
- Experience presenting information at Board level and proposal development is desirable

About You
- Excellent relationship manager with strong communication, negotiation, and presentation skills
- Reliable and able to deliver complex projects in challenging circumstances, escalating issues appropriately
- Self-starter with autonomy, highly organised, detail-oriented, adaptable to changing priorities
- Strategic thinker who can lead detailed project delivery
- Proven team player with a positive attitude, able to build trust and respect at all levels
- Willingness and ability to undertake international travel as required
- Ability to influence senior colleagues and manage complex commercial approaches is desirable
- Resilient and able to work autonomously in a high-profile, fast-moving environment
- Strong sense of quality and professionalism, leading by example

Qualifications
- Degree or professional qualification, or equivalent experience in healthcare, business, or international relations
- Price 2 / MSP Practitioner qualification is desirable

Desirable Knowledge and Skills
- Understanding of commercial work in the NHS and international healthcare markets, systems, policies, and regulations
- Ability to analyse complex financial and non-financial information
- Strong understanding of healthcare service delivery and commercial contracting in UK and/or international markets
- Experience identifying international opportunities and building overseas stakeholder relationships