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Job summary

Main area
Commercial
Grade
Non NHS Banding
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (This is a hybrid role – site based with home working)
Job ref
4265 - 8283470
Employer
HUC
Employer type
NHS
Site
HUC HQ
Town
Ascots Lane, Welwyn Garden City
Salary
£95,000 per annum
Closing
23/09/2026 23:59

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Development Director

Non NHS Banding

Job overview

The Development Director will lead HUC’s commercial development and growth agenda, identifying and shaping sustainable opportunities that support the organisation’s strategic objectives, vision and values.

Working closely with the Executive Team and senior colleagues, the post holder will provide strategic leadership across Commercial Modelling, Business Development, and Market Development & Communications. They will bring strong commercial judgement, ensuring complex proposals, assumptions and opportunities are robustly assessed, appropriately governed and translated into clear recommendations.

The Development Director will lead HUC’s growth strategy across geographic expansion, new services, procurement, strategic partnerships and joint ventures, while developing a strong pipeline of opportunities across existing and new markets.

A key focus will be building trusted relationships with commissioners, providers, partners and senior decision makers, positioning HUC as a partner of choice for improving patient access, reducing waiting times, supporting integration, driving innovation and delivering outstanding patient outcomes

Main duties of the job

  • Lead the development and delivery of HUC’s commercial growth strategy, aligned to organisational priorities, vision and values.
  • Identify, assess and shape sustainable growth opportunities across new and existing markets.
  • Develop and oversee a high-value pipeline of opportunities, ensuring effective prioritisation and progression.
  • Provide strategic leadership across Commercial Modelling, Business Development, and Market Development & Communications.
  • Provide expert commercial advice, analysis and constructive challenge to the Executive Team and senior colleagues.
  • Interrogate complex proposals, financial models and assumptions, ensuring robust decision-making and appropriate governance.
  • Lead opportunities relating to geographic expansion, new services, procurement, strategic partnerships and joint ventures.
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with commissioners, providers, partners and executive-level stakeholders.
  • Identify emerging market trends and opportunities to support service diversification and innovation.
  • Lead and inspire the commercial development teams, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation and constructive challenge.
  • Ensure the expertise of the Head of Commercial Modelling, Head of Business Development and Head of Market Development & Communications is effectively integrated to deliver HUC’s growth ambitions.
  • Champion sustainable commercial development that strengthens HUC’s long-term impact and organisational sustainability

Working for our organisation

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, should we receive sufficient applications for the role.

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information about this role please see attached job description and person specification.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Degree Level Education- typically in healthcare managements, business administration, operational management or a related field
Desirable criteria
  • Post-graduate qualification / Master – in health services management, or equivalent in a relevant subject area

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria
  • Significant senior-level experience in bid management for complex bids of £20m+ per annum
  • Demonstrable experience of modelling complex services and sound financial understanding
  • Demonstrable experience leading high-performing teams within a matrix environment.
  • Excellent analytical, communication, negotiation, and influencing skills.
  • Ability to interpret operational understanding to ensure they translate into clear concise commercial models
  • Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at senior leadership level.
  • Evidence of using data analytics to support data driven decision making and service improvements
  • Implementing a culture of high performance and high quality throughout all services with visible accountability at levels
  • Proven understanding of budget management, cost controls and departmental transformation to generate efficiencies.
  • Strong understanding of the NHS, and wider health sector at a senior level with experience of developing and maintaining partnerships within the political landscape
  • Able to successfully deal with a wide range of challenging demands, timescales and diversity of challenges
  • Demonstrable commitment to, and understanding of, equity, equality, diversity & inclusion.
  • Able to collaborate constructively with internal and external partners to create conditions for successful system working approach.
Desirable criteria
  • Extensive knowledge of primary and urgent care services including NHS 111 operational delivery and performance management.
  • Practical experience of project management processes and systems
  • Experience in supporting and contributing to strong integrated governance, learning and improvement
  • Ability to demonstrate understanding and behaviours associated with HUC values
  • Experience of large-scale change management and service redesign projects

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Strong visible leadership and motivation skills, acting with integrity whilst valuing diversity
  • A natural influencer, good communicator / presenter with proven negotiation skills, comfortable debater with sound business and technical reasoning plus commercial awareness with the ability to anticipate alternative scenarios and prepare according.
  • Ability to display a sound and comprehensive understanding of the complex needs of many stakeholders in HUC; engaging successfully with colleagues at all levels and building successful working relationships when it comes to working with our executive, commissioners and agencies.
  • Motivational with a genuine desire & concern for quality & appropriateness of patient services.
  • A problem solver who provides solutions that make a difference with the ability to evaluate complex decision-making processes and ensure outcomes are clearly understood and acted upon.
  • Strong use of data to understand problems, find solutions and evaluate success
  • IT literate with proven use of Office 365 products
Desirable criteria
  • Display resilience, courage and curiosity Service performance management, transformation and change
  • Evidence of experience in and / or has good senior knowledge of the healthcare sector Interested in the use of technology to improve the efficiency of services, patient experience and sustainability

Other

Essential criteria
  • Full valid UK driving licence with access to a car or willing to use public transport where appropriate.
  • Flexible to travel to other sites across the HUC geographical footprint.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Sarah-Jane Newbigging
Job title
People Operations Advisor
Email address
[email protected]
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