Senior Commissioning Manager

Essential

• Educated to Masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
• Programme/ project management qualification and/or management qualification, or equivalent level of experience.
• Experience of working in a similar role with the NHS.
• Experience of leading service development, redesign and change across organisations.
• Experiencing of researching best practice and making recommendations to deliver optimal outcomes for all stakeholders.
• Experience of managing and monitoring budgets, and working knowledge of financial processes.
• Experience of designing, commissioning and procuring services, and of managing contracts.
• Experience of planning and organising a broad range of complex activities, formulating and adjusting plans and strategies if required.
• Experience of producing strategies and/or policies and/or plans.
• Experience of line management and providing indirect management/ leadership of project teams, working groups or similar.

Essential

• Ability to make judgements on a range of complex issue where there are conflicting views or incomplete information and/or a number of courses of action, using experience to make inferences and inform decision making
• Highly developed planning and organisational skills.
• Ability to contribute to the development of short-, medium-, and long-term plans which deliver organisational objectives.
• Ability to undertake equality and quality impact assessments, and deliver equality and diversity improvements.
• Ability to determine, prioritise and manage work to deliver priorities within timescales.
• Ability to work with, engage and motivate staff, colleagues and stakeholders in planning and implementation of change.
• Ability to work without supervision, working to tight and often changing timescales, in a busy environment.
• Flexibility and resilience, ability to cope with uncertainty and change.
• Attention to detail and accuracy, reliable under pressure and able to concentrate whilst dealing with frequent interruptions.
• Ability to interpret complex national strategies and policies and apply them to own area of work, proposing policy or other changes.
• Ability to provide training, advice and support.
• Ability to devise, maintain and improve information systems.

Essential

• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.
• Experience of working collaboratively with key stakeholders.
• Experience of presenting internally and externally to a variety of stakeholders.
• Ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive and contentious information.
• Ability to give formal presentations at senior level.
• Ability to write clear, concise and balanced reports for consideration.
• Ability to negotiate and influence stakeholders.
• Ability to sensitively impart unwelcome news to stakeholders on occasion.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and trust.

Desirable

• Experience working with clinicians and clinical leads

Essential

• Good analytical skills with ability to analyse, interpret, challenge and present a range of complex information and data, and to develop a range of options.
• Ability to draw qualitative and quantitative information from a range of services and present it in a clear and concise way.
• Ability to effectively plan, analyse and resolve problems.
• Ability to seek out, identify and implement opportunities for service improvement, to anticipate problems before they arise and offer appropriate solutions.
• Excellent problem solving skills and ability to respond positively to sudden unexpected demands or changes.