Are you a highly skilled and experienced leader in Commercial Consulting with deep expertise in the NHS and broader healthcare systems? NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) is seeking a visionary Head of Commercial Consulting to shape and deliver consulting-led commercial and efficiency strategies that support transformation across NHS Trusts, Integrated Care Systems (ICS), national NHS bodies, and the wider public sector.
In this pivotal role, you will lead client-facing engagements focused on procurement transformation, cost optimisation, contract redesign, and supplier relationship management. Your deep understanding of NHS policy, procurement regulations, and the financial pressures within healthcare will be key to driving impactful change.
This role is hybrid, with a base location of London, Leeds or Manchester and client travel as required.
What you'll be doing:
- Lead the development and delivery of NHS-focused commercial consulting strategies that drive efficiency, integration, and improved outcomes across NHS Trusts, ICSs, national bodies, and the wider public sector.
- Oversee complex client engagements in procurement transformation, contract redesign, and cost improvement planning. Ensuring solutions are tailored to the unique challenges and opportunities within healthcare.
- Support clients in navigating key commercial frameworks and policies, including Public Contract Regulations (PCR), NHS England Commercial Standards, Net Zero, and Social Value, with clarity and confidence.
- Shape and promote NHS-specific commercial propositions aligned to frameworks such as NHS SBS and Crown Commercial Service (CCS), helping clients unlock strategic value.
- Build trusted relationships with senior NHS stakeholders, offering expert guidance on commercial strategy and transformation, and positioning NHS SBS as a partner of choice.
- Drive business development and growth, identifying new consulting opportunities, leading proposal creation and bid submissions, and contributing to a strong and sustainable pipeline.
What you’ll bring:
- Extensive experience delivering commercial consulting services to NHS organisations or equivalent public healthcare bodies, with a strong track record of driving measurable impact.
- Deep knowledge of NHS procurement policy and regulations, including Public Contract Regulations (PCR 2015), and the ability to guide clients through complex governance and compliance landscapes.
- Proven success in business development and sales within a consulting environment, including opportunity identification, bid development, and client engagement.
- Strong understanding of NHS commercial priorities, including Net Zero and Social Value strategies, and the ability to embed these into client solutions and propositions.
- Exceptional stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships across executive, clinical, and operational teams in healthcare settings.
- Commercial and financial acumen, applied to cost improvement planning, contract lifecycle optimisation, and the development of sustainable, value-driven consulting solutions.
It would be great if you had:
- Public sector framework and regulatory experience (PSR, PCR, CCS, NHS frameworks).
If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!
Employment Type: Full-time
Location: London, Leeds or Manchester
Security Clearance Level: BPSS
Internal Recruiter: Amy
Salary: Up to £110k depending on experience
Benefits: Up to 20% bonus, £6,600 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund
Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.
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NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) was created by the Department of Health and Social Care to deliver corporate services to the NHS. A unique joint venture with Sopra Steria, a European leader in digital services and software development, we make life easier for NHS employees, patients, and suppliers, and deliver value for money to the taxpayer. Proud members of the NHS family, we provide finance & accounting, digital, procurement and workforce services to more than half the NHS in England, and our solutions are underpinned by cutting-edge technologies and our teams’ expertise, in-depth understanding of the NHS, and commitment to service excellence.
We share common values and unity of purpose with the rest of the NHS family, are committed to being a force for good, and are dedicated and empowered to act responsibly and sustainably at organisational, team and individual level.
Would you like to join us on our journey?
We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.
