Clinic Operations, Partnership Manager - 12-month FTC

Ellison Institute of Technology; Oxford; Sur place; GBP 65 000 - 95 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Enhanced holiday

Pension

Life Assurance

Private Medical Insurance

Cycle to Work Scheme

Nursery Salary Sacrifice

Employee discounts

Travel opportunities

Résumé du poste

The Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) is seeking a Clinical Operations, Partnership Manager to join the Commercial Projects team in the Legal, Commercial and Compliance division on a fixed-term 12-month contract.

This role leads management from EIT’s side of the partnership with our clinical services delivery partner, and co-ordinates operational delivery to ensure we successfully build, launch, deliver and grow our EIT Oxford Clinic to deliver impactful and innovative healthcare services to

Qualifications

• Proven stakeholder and partnership management within clinical operations.
• Strong negotiation and influencing capability to secure frameworks and scopes.
• Commercially and financially astute with budgeting and forecasting experience.
• Understanding of UK healthcare systems and regulatory frameworks.

Responsabilités

• Liaise with the external clinic partner and internal stakeholders to manage operational delivery.
• Provide regular reporting to Clinic Committee and cross-functional leadership on performance.
• Oversee budget and forecast for Clinic operations and program expenditure.
• Coordinate procurement and approvals for EIT Clinic activities and programs.
• Support marketing and launch activities for the Oxford Clinic with project teams.
• Monitor governance, scopes of work, and escalation paths across partnerships.

Connaissances

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Financial forecasting

UK healthcare knowledge

Leadership

Description du poste

Join us at EIT:

At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionaryscientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovatorsto tackle humanity’s greatest challenges in four transformative areas:

• Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology
• Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture
• Climate Change & Managing CO₂
• Artificial Intelligence & Robotics

This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you’ll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org.

Your Role:

At EIT we are looking for a Clinical Operations, Partnership Manager to join the Commercial Projects team within the Legal, Commercial and Compliance division of EIT on a fixed term 12-month contract. This role leads management from EIT’s side of the partnership with our clinical services delivery partner, and co-ordinates operational delivery to ensure we successfully build, launch, deliver and grow our EIT Oxford Clinic to deliver impactful and innovative healthcare services to the local community.

Your Responsibilities:

Liaison and Partnership Stewardship

• Serve as the primary point of contact for EIT’s Clinic operating partner, and their affiliates, ensuring regular engagement and communication.
• Develop and maintain trusted, senior-level partner relationships through proactive outreach, relationship management, and stewardship of key partnerships based on agreed governance structures.
• Negotiate to deliver on EIT’s preferred position on scopes of work, amendments to the delivery frameworks, and establishment and monitoring of performance expectations
• Identify opportunities to expand and strengthen the partnership, for example to facilitate collaboration on innovation or clinical research proposals to advance medical humane endeavours.
• Working with existing best practices (Asana, Confluence etc.) where available, establish a robust Partnership Management Framework to drive the appropriate rhythm, tracking, reporting and visibility of the progression to shared goals.

Management of Operations to deliver on the EIT Clinic Partnership

• Act as trusted EIT representative for external meetings with our EIT Clinic partner regarding operational delivery of the clinic in Oxford, and any additional agreed programs or active partnerships.
• Provide clear communication and reporting to the Clinic Committee, Collaboration Leads, EIT Central Operations leadership (Legal, Commercial, Compliance, Finance, other) on a regular basis and other internal stakeholders upon request.
• Manage internal stakeholder communications regarding Clinic Operational performance and progress and act as a main point of contact across EIT for any concerns or escalations.
• Working hand in hand with EIT Delivery stakeholders (Estates, Facilities, IT etc.) regularly monitor and evaluate operational pre-opening and post-opening progression against the agreed project priorities and timelines and manage deviations as appropriate based on the escalation process.
• Support business planning for ongoing clinical operations and infrastructure, based on agreed terms.
• Working with central communications team and following agreed scheduling, lead or co-lead EIT communications and narratives (internal and, if required, public facing) regarding clinical operations and programme progress.
• Week to week, oversee Clinic program budgets and operational expenditure.
• Provide support for Clinic-related financial forecasting and resource planning.
• Where required for EIT Clinic-related procurement, act as a nominated approver and/or requisition raiser.
• Act as the main point of contact regarding EIT Clinical operations, for the EIT Finance Team and, with the Director, Commercial Projects review month to month Clinic budget performance.
• Provide industry expertise to support and oversee the design, launch, and management of EIT’s Clinic marketing and launch activities, led by our Clinic partner.

Essential Skills, Qualifications & Experience:

• Clear and confident communicator.
• Proven stakeholder and partnership management skills within clinical operations, with the credibility to engage senior leaders.
• Strong negotiation and influencing capability, ensuring agreed frameworks, scopes, and expectations are effectively secured.
• Commercially and financially astute, with the ability to oversee budgets, monitor expenditure, and support accurate forecasting.
• Understanding of UK healthcare systems and regulatory frameworks, leading or overseeing clinical operations across a team, department or programme.

We offer the following benefits:

• Enhanced holiday. Our annual leave allowance is 25 days plus 8 bank holidays and an additional 3 days between Christmas and New Year. You will also have the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days annual leave in January and July.
• Pension - Employer contribution 7.5%, minimum employee contribution 5%
• Life Assurance.
• Income Protection
• Private Medical Insurance as standard for you, your partner and any dependents. Including hospital Cash Plan
• Employee discounts
• Electric car scheme
• Nursery Salary Sacrifice scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Family Planning
• Neurodiversity support including advise and assessments
• Coaching & Therapy services

Working Together – What It Involves:

• You must have the right to work permanently in the UK with a willingness to travel as necessary.
• You will live in, or within easy commuting distance of, Oxford (or be willing to relocate).