Health Innovation Manchester is seeking a Corporate Business Manager who brings professionalism, curiosity, and commitment. This pivotal role supports the Chief Operating Officer in delivering strategic operational and workforce priorities, contributing to major projects, and ensuring robust business planning and reporting.
We're looking for someone who thrives in complexity and brings a calm, structured approach. Integrity, purposeful communication, and trusted stakeholder relationships are essential. You'll translate strategic intent into practical delivery and develop systems that promote transparency, assurance, and continuous improvement.
You'll work independently and collaboratively across boundaries, managing competing priorities with agility and sound judgement. Political awareness and emotional intelligence are key to influencing and engaging others, especially around sensitive issues.
This role suits someone operationally capable and forward-thinking who is able to connect innovation, governance, and performance. If you enjoy solving problems, enabling others, and working in a fast-paced, purpose-driven environment, we'd love to hear from you.
The Corporate Business Manager has a pivotal role in working with the Chief Operating Officer to execute strategic business priorities on behalf of Health Innovation Manchester.
The postholder will provide specialist knowledge and expertise in business planning and governance, with a deep understanding of the innovation landscape across GM and nationally.
They will oversee the effective management and planning of a range of strategic and operational projects, whilst ensuring activities and services are planned and managed effectively to ensure successful delivery. They will also design and implement appropriate systems and processes to capture and report on performance data and assurance.
The Corporate Business Manager will be politically astute, a problem solver, with effective communication and influencing skills, and the ability to translate conceptual or complex information into a simple and understandable design or narrative that can be understood by a broad range of stakeholders.
With the ability to work independently and collaboratively at all levels, they will be able to work quickly in response to changing demands and multiple priorities, operating in an agile manner.
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you'll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the 'Supporting Documents' heading. So that you're even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you'll need to take time to read the ' Candidate Essentials Guide' that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how 'we care for you as you care for others'. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you'll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at .
We're looking forward to hearing from you