Senior Contracts Manager

NHS; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a Senior Contracts Manager has arisen at NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board. The role involves managing contracts, leading teams, and ensuring quality service delivery across various healthcare providers. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong leadership and communication skills, working collaboratively to improve health outcomes for the local population.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in commissioning and/or contracting healthcare services.
• Experience of managing a complex tertiary acute contract.
• Ability to work without supervision and provide specialist advice.

Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of contracts and lead contract negotiations.
• Facilitate and lead complex conversations with stakeholders.
• Support on escalations and manage complex issues.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Analytical Skills

Project Management

Education

Master's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Go back NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board

Senior Contracts Manager

The closing date is 02 June 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the contracts team for a 12 month secondment for senior contracts manager. The post holder will support managers and staff across the ICB to manage the interface with providers and ICBs for all aspects of contract management and provide excellent relationship management.

The successful applicant will be able to recommend next steps, lead and facilitate the actions to resolve complex scenarios and issues, work well within a team in a fast paced environment and the ability to work independently is essential. You will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, be able to work flexibly and the ability to motivate others. We are looking for an individual to manage a portfolio of contracts, covering a variety of different contracts.

The contracts team are responsible for creating contracts, managing the day to day provider and contract management of over 350 providers. You will work closely with other directorates including commissioners, finance, and quality to ensure that the right conversations and measures are in place to maintain the quality of commissioned services.

Main duties of the job

The post requires an experienced, dynamic, and proactive individual with excellent team working and leadership skills to work within a supportive team. The post holder will have line management for individual/s in the team. The senior contract manager will work closely with partners to negotiate, agree, and manage those contracts and ensure they reflect the needs of the local population deliver service quality and make a real difference to health outcomes.

You should be comfortable with leading and managing a portfolio of contracts and others in the team across different workstreams/care programmes, building excellent and productive relationships with providers and ICB colleagues, managing the contracting cycle for your contracts, arranging, and chairing contract meetings, facilitating and leading complex and sensitive conversations between internal and external stakeholders. The post holder will also support on escalations, manage complex issues to successful resolution and lead on papers and projects as required.

About us

Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care System brings together local NHS, councils and voluntary, community and faith sectors to better serve our communities. With a population of circa 1.55 million, our vision is for BSOL to be the healthiest place to live and work, driving equity in life chances and health outcomes for everyone. For an chance to be part of the fantastic opportunity we have as an Integrated Care System, apply for this role today.

As a member of our system you will actively demonstrate system values in all that you do. You will be driven to address health inequalities and create an environment that is inclusive for all people.

In return NHS Birmingham and Solihull can offer you the opportunity to thrive and develop in a team that is supportive, ambitious and inclusive. You will have plenty of opportunities to build your skills and experience, with a chance to work with colleagues across our five Provider Trusts, two Local Authorities, voluntary organisations, Integrated Care Board (ICB) and NHS England to truly effect change and add value.

We know that diversity fosters creativity and innovation and are committed to challenging discrimination, promoting equality of opportunity for all, being a fair and inclusive employer, and creating a place of work in which all of us feel we belong.

Job responsibilities

Please see the job description and person specification document for full details of the role responsibilities.

Person Specification

Knowledge, Training and Experience

• Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
• Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent.
• Extensive experience of commissioning and/or contracting of healthcare services.
• Knowledge and experience of commissioning services in line with commissioning competencies

Planning and Organisational Skills

• Experience of using project management and or management strategic programmes methodology.
• experience of staff management

Knowledge, Training and Experience

• Extensive experience of commissioning and/or contracting of healthcare services.
• Experience of application of the contracting cycle methodology and competencies.
• Experience of preparing and presenting board reports.
• understanding of the background aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement and planning
• Experience of managing a complex tertiary acute contract.
• Knowledge and experience of commissioning services in line with commissioning competencies.
• Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, NHS England, the Care Quality Commission, and individual provider and commissioning organisations

Communication Skills

• Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders both internal and external (including outside the NHS) to the organisation, some at very senior level.
• Good presentational skills for conveying complex concepts.
• Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others.

Analytical and Judgement Skills

• Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery.
• Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution.

Planning and Organisational Skills

• Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time.
• Experience of using project management and or management strategic programmes methodology.
• Abilities for financial and staff management

Autonomy

• Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales Interpreting national policy for implementation

Interpersonal Skills / Abilities

• Working collaboratively with other leaders to achieve excellence in everything we do in BSol
• Being inclusive, supportive and empowering at all times

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board