Digital Business Administration Manager | The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Manchester seeks a professional to support business administration within Digital Services. You will coordinate with senior leadership teams, provide financial oversight, and contribute to service improvement projects. The ideal candidate has significant experience in managing business operations within healthcare, alongside strong analytical abilities to assess performance data. This role is vital to aligning departmental objectives with strategic goals.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing business administration within a healthcare setting.
• Strong analytical skills to produce performance reports.
• Ability to support and coordinate senior leadership teams effectively.

Responsibilities

• Support and coordinate the Office of the CIO for business administration.
• Monitor the delivery of digital strategy to meet standards.
• Provide financial oversight in partnership with the digital SMT.

Skills

Financial oversight

Project coordination

Service delivery improvement

Report analysis

Job description

Overview

This is a key role in supporting the Office of the CIO and Digital SMT to help monitor, co-ordinate, and assure on the administrative business operations of the Division of 100+ staff. This includes but not limited to supporting the oversight of: Financial monitoring and planning (budgets £10million+), contract management (100+ contracts), business case development and review and monitoring of compliance against standards. You will be responsible for the supervision, development and appraisal of the Business Administration team only. You will provide support and input to projects within Digital Services and across the Trust as assigned.

Responsibilities

• Provide support and co-ordination to the Office of the CIO and the Digital senior leadership team to help them manage all aspects of Digital Services business administration to meet objectives, meet defined standards and maintain an excellent service to help Christie staff care for our patients.
• Working in partnership with the digital SMT, Trust corporate and clinical departments in monitoring the delivery of digital strategy and improvement goals to meet key national and local standards.
• Provide support and co-ordination to the senior leadership team in service change and reform ensuring alignment with the strategic direction of the Trust.
• Support the teams in their development and implementation of improved service delivery, by evidencing and communicating achievement.
• Demonstrating the support of excellent financial oversight and understanding, working in partnership with the digital SMT and the finance team to support and co-ordinate the development and implementation of cost control, realisation of savings, and adherence to excellent procurement practices.
• To be a resource and active participant in specific service development projects across Digital, particularly with communication and monitoring of Digital business activities.
• Work closely with the Senior Management Team to help monitor strategic development and change management.
• Help and support the Digital SMT communicate complex information in a simple and understandable way to non-technical staff.
• Analyse and produce monthly reports of business planning performance data including comparison with contractual related information.
• Monitor the delivery of activity, raising concerns in a timely manner and identifying appropriate corrective actions.
• Follow and lead on improvement of existing processes which enable consistent and accurate business information collection to inform future planning, service improvement and re-design within the organisation.
• Provide input into the planning of any service development including change within the division/directorate as appropriate, ensure that divisional/directorate objectives are affordable within available resources consistent with organisational strategy.

About Christie

The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% of patients are referred to us from other parts of the country. We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years. We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.

General activities

• Work closely with the Senior Management Team to help monitor strategic development and change management.
• Help and support the Digital SMT communicate complex information in a simple and understandable way to non-technical staff.
• Analyse and produce monthly reports of business planning performance data including comparison with contractual related information.
• Monitor the delivery of activity, raising concerns in a timely manner and identifying appropriate corrective actions.
• Follow and lead on improvement of existing processes which enable consistent and accurate business information collection to inform future planning, service improvement and re-design within the organisation.
• Provide input into the planning of any service development including change within the division/directorate as appropriate, ensure that divisional/directorate objectives are affordable within available resources consistent with organisational strategy.

This advert closes on Friday 3 Oct 2025