Assistant Director - Business Development & Policy in London inLondon PUBLISHED FRI 7 MAR 2025 Jump to job information section

We are the NHS Confederation, the voice of healthcare leaders.

As the only membership body for the whole healthcare system, we are uniquely placed to bring together, support and speak for leaders and organisations across the sector. We join the dots between different parts of the health and care system; we understand the challenges our members face.

Building relationships with industry is a key way we help our members and inform our work. Partnerships can help the NHS get up stream, adopt technology, work differently and achieve greater efficiency and effectiveness in a challenging time.

We have a great opportunity for some someone with a wealth of understanding of the health policy landscape, to apply this to our business development programme. This includes building new commercial partnerships, joint ventures, a programme of events, sponsorship and exhibition and more.

We are looking for a leader to help us diversify our income and expand our ambition to support our members to improve, whilst generating revenue to invest back in our work on behalf of the NHS.

If thats you, read on.

As the Assistant Director Business Development & Policy, you will lead two teams:

• our Business Development team, driving our sponsorship and exhibition opportunities across our programme of events, as well as securing partners to co-create and fund our policy work on behalf of members
• our Industry Engagement & Policy team, which works with colleagues across the organisation to shape and deliver new commercial offers and account manage our key commercial partners. The team supports commercial partners around content they present as part of our events, including the programme for NHS ConfedExpo, our major event for NHS leaders, which we deliver in partnership with NHS England.

This role will also work closely with directors across the organisation to develop new commercial opportunities, helping shape and design these, then incubating them until they go live and become BAU and a core part of our offer to members and wider stakeholders. This includes new offers in the leadership and improvement space, consultancy and more.

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About you

You will be an innovative, creative and opportunistic leader, with excellent commercial and relationship management skills. Youll be able to apply your understanding of the healthcare system and challenges facing our members, to expand and achieve our commercial ambitions.

You will thrive on collaborative working, with senior leaders across our organisation, understanding our influencing and impact goals, but keeping a close eye on the bottom line. As a highly organised and proactive colleague, you will contribute pace and effectiveness to our commercial efforts.

We are creating additional post to support your role, so you will be an experienced team leader, ensuring you support and develop your team, and build their skills, helping them achieve their personal ambitions, as they help us achieve the organisations aims to expand and grow.

The word ambition appears a lot here, we are very ambitious; if you are too, this is the role for you.