Healthcare Consulting Cost and Productivity Manager
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About The Role
The Enterprise Operations Transformation Cost and Productivity team sits within the Consulting line of Service. This role is specifically for applicants interested in healthcare projects within the Consulting Cost and Productivity business. We aim to support our clients to deliver financial and operational improvements with pragmatic, hands‑on solutions to ensure sustained future success.
Skills
* Strategic business planning
* Rapid cost reduction planning and implementation, including procurement and workforce optimisation
* Adaptive change management
This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly successful and growing team, with excellent career progression opportunities. The post can be based in Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff or Reading.
Key Responsibilities
You would work with high‑profile health sector clients in a fast‑paced and highly rewarding environment. You need to have excellent analytical capabilities supported by strong interpersonal skills and tenacity to support the delivery of operational change and financial turnaround. Your role will involve analysis and report writing and working with client staff in hands‑on roles to develop and deliver cost improvement projects. This may involve working operationally and in clinical environments to identify savings, implement cost controls and project‑manage complex programmes of work.
* Developing, planning and supporting the delivery of operational improvement projects
* Developing and implementing cost control programmes
* Assessing and testing financial positions and forecast, and strategic planning with business case and scenario testing
As a manager in our team, you will be responsible for coaching and overseeing the work of junior staff and being the primary day‑to‑day contact with client teams. You will also report to more senior staff and take the lead on managing risk and compliance issues on client engagements as well as costing proposals and managing budget oversight.
Due to the hands‑on nature of our work, we are often required to work closely with our clients on site. You will therefore need to be willing to travel and be flexible around your working location. Where possible, we will take your preferences into account and strike a balance between meeting your career development/personal needs and those of the business and our clients.
The Skills And Experience We Are Looking For
* Must possess an ACA, ACCA, CIPFA, CIMA or equivalent qualification or have equivalent work experience
* Strong analytical skills (financial and non‑financial), including use of Microsoft Excel. NHS‑specific information analytics desirable
* Report writing skills including use of Microsoft PowerPoint
* Excellent verbal and written English
* Previous experience in or exposure to complex stakeholder environments
* Strong commercial awareness and willingness to participate in marketing and business development
* Strong interpersonal skills and comfortable communicating with all levels
* A commitment to continued personal development
* Proven project and time‑management skills
* Ability to work to tight deadlines in rapidly moving working environments
* Flexibility to work on diverse projects
* Experience of the NHS desirable
You will be joining a team that welcomes your outlook and knowledge, whilst providing you with the opportunity to develop your skill set further within one of the world’s leading professional organisations. Our team comes from a variety of backgrounds, many with hands‑on experience of working in the healthcare sector including the NHS, so we recognise that this type of work is quite new for some. We support our joiners as best we can to transition successfully to working in one of the world’s leading professional services organisations.
What You’ll Receive From Us
Our benefits are designed to add value and support, recognising and rewarding you fairly for your contributions. We offer a range of benefits including empowered flexibility and a working week split between office, home and client site; private medical cover and 24/7 access to a qualified virtual GP; six volunteering days a year and much more.
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