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Healthcare Consulting Cost and Productivity Manager

Newcastle-Maitland
Posted 1 day ago
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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 are looking for highly motivated people to join our team. Our work blends hands-on situational and stakeholder management skills, with functional expertise as well as industry expertise and covers:

  • Strategic business planning
  • Rapid cost reduction planning and implementation, including procurement and workforce optimisation
  • Adaptive change management

Our aim is to support our clients to deliver financial and operational improvements with pragmatic, hands-on solutions to ensure sustained future success. This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly successful and growing team, with excellent career progression opportunities.

This post can be based in Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff or Reading.

What your days will look like

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 in order to identify savings, implement cost controls and project manage complex programmes of work.

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You will work with our team to support a range of assignments including:

  • Developing, planning and supporting the delivery of operational improvement projects
  • Developing and implementing cost control programmes
  • Assessing and testing of 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. This could require working away from your base office location on a regular basis and regular overnight stays may be required. 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.

This role is for you if:

  • Must possess an ACA, ACCA, CIPFA, CIMA or equivalent qualification (or a equivalent) or have equivalent work experience. This includes international candidates who qualify through experience in their home country.
  • Strong analytical skills (financial and non-financial), including use of Microsoft Excel. Experience of NHS-specific information analytics is highly desirable but not essential.
  • 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 a 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 is desirable but not essential.

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No matter where you may be in your career or personal life, 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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Skills

Strategic business planning
Cost reduction planning
Workforce optimisation
Change management
Financial turnaround
Operational improvement
Cost control programmes
Financial analysis
Microsoft Excel
Report writing
Microsoft PowerPoint
Stakeholder management
Project management
Business case development
Scenario testing
Commercial awareness

Location

Newcastle-Maitland, New South Wales, Australia

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