Senior Cost Improvement Manager

Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Kent, is currently looking to recruit 3 x Senior Cost Improvement Managers for 12 month FTC contracts on salaries of £91,342 to £105,337/annum

Responsibilities:

- Coordinating input from broad, multi-disciplinary teams, to ensure effective delivery of high value financial improvement schemes at pace.

- Provide expert input on high value schemes including:

- Delivery of high value CIP initiatives

- Examination, analysis and synthesising of Programme areas to identify further opportunities

- Project design and scoping, benefits identification and writing business cases

- Ensure all project and work stream plans are realistic, responsibilities for implementation / delivery are owned and the schedule of benefits delivery / release is congruent with the annual financial and budgeting processes

- Develop relationships and influence to ensure ownership of financial improvement is achieved

- Produce clear visual materials, project documentation, and data for use in reports, local briefings, workshops and meetings for both internal and external presentations on allocated schemes

- Being able to present the progress, findings and impact in a clear, concise and engaging manner

- Responsibility for ensuring plans are developed, maintained and updated consistently across assigned projects, working closely with the PMO team.

- Complete process reviews for project interdependencies, service impact assessments, project approvals, change controls and Quality Impact Assessments (QIA’s) for allocated schemes

- Review and quality assure the content of documentation to assure that goals and outcomes are credible

- Ensure that changes to programme and projects across the portfolio are properly managed and the impact of any changes impact assessed, reported and recorded

- Attend appropriate meetings/boards to oversee, support and challenging Corporate areas ensuring that information is current, risks and issues are flagged, actions and decisions are made and intervening at appropriate times in order to ensure project and programme delivery and to remedy under performance

- To maintain and work within systems designed to monitor and report on the quality of project outcomes and success measures in order to inform sustainability of plans

- Working with the PMO team, manage projects using best practice approaches and tools, for example PIDs, project plans, and report templates.

- Develop relationships and influence to ensure ownership of high value financial improvement projects are achieved and that supportive and sustainable performance management frameworks are put in place

- Ensure clear lines of communication are maintained between work streams and the PMO

- Work across professional boundaries and service areas where there may be significant barriers and offer solutions that secure support from individuals, professional groups and departments

- Develop a network of relationships to ensure ownership is achieved and performance managed by the whole multi-disciplinary team

- Engage key stakeholders and service users in the change process and empowers them to influence and own the outcomes

- Work independently to manage day-to-day tasks and responsibilities effectively without constant direction, and is able to demonstrate reliability, organisation, and initiative in completing work accurately and on time

- Foster a sustainable culture and environment that promotes effective collaboration and the achievement of sustainable financial improvement informed by best practice.

- Be responsible for regular validation of the information used to inform planning process and progress reports on delivery

- Maintain and work within systems designed to monitor and report on the quality of project outcomes and success measures in order to inform sustained

- Financial improvement plans

- Be able to use data including national benchmarking to inform key stakeholders of current state of project progress against plan.

- Able to receive, process, summarise, interpret and effectively communicate highly complex, sensitive and contentious information where there are barriers to acceptance and resistance to change in a highly pressurised environment

- Support development of regular and ad-hoc management information reports that support management decision-making, performance, planning and evaluation

- Responsible for presenting highly complex and complex information to various boards and other internal and external stakeholders using MS Excel software including the use of advanced formula functions in MS Excel and graphic presentational techniques in MS PowerPoint

- Maintenance of all the required trackers including adherence to version control

- To be able to use data to inform key stakeholders of current state of project progress against plan and responsible for validating the information shared

- Analyse and resolve highly complex problems to successful conclusion

- Produce ad hoc analysis as required by the programme, internal or external stakeholders as required

- Ensure that all required data is readily available to feed into business as usual processes and system.

- Take personal responsibility for own professional growth and develop an agreed action plan with line manager

- Maintain own professional competence and credibility

- Adhere to relevant Professional Code of Conduct at all times.

Essential Skills:

- Masters level degree. Project management qualification (e.g. PRINCE 2).

- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development

- Significant experience of working in an Acute Provider at a senior operational level

- Significant experience of working on financial improvement.

- Proven record of accomplishment of delivery in a PMO environment and project delivery.

- Understanding of benchmarking data and complex datasets and its use in the Acute sector to drive financial Improvement.

- Senior experience of achieving challenging financial delivery targets including understanding of current evidence-based practice in financial improvement.

- Experience of working with a wide range of stakeholders and securing their engagement.

- Clear exposure and involvement with senior management from a wide range of disciplines, and experience with delivering results in a matrix structure through impact, influence and credibility.

- Experience in identifying issues and structuring problems, leading quantitative and qualitative analysis, synthesising and developing recommendations.

- Ability to use initiative and sound judgement in managing workload and decision-making to deliver the outcomes

- Excellent inter-personal, communications and influencing skills, both oral and written

- Ability to manage and deliver to deadlines and within resources.

- Advanced level of analytical skills, including analysis of data using Excel / related tools.

- Ability to collaborate constructively with internal and external partners to create the conditions for successful partnership working.

- Ability to influence other people to accept a point of view.

- Resilience, patience, authority, gravitas, and an ability to influence widely.

- Commitment to and focus on quality, promotes high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes.

- Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness

- An enquiring and analytical mind.

- Able to work with a great degree of flexibility

- Drive and energy to make things happen; frequently goes "above and beyond" the call of duty.

- Able to work at flexible hours and across sites.

- Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness.

Desirable Skills:

- Qualification demonstrating Finance understanding/capability

- Understanding of the changing environment and its implications for service delivery and Finance

- High degree of financial acumen

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