Job vacancy: Innovation Lead (Commercial and Partnerships), Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Marylebone

Job summary

Main area: Innovation Lead (Commercial and Partnerships)
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8c
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time
Job ref: 289-CR-36

Employer: Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Ferguson House, 15 Marylebone Road
Town: Marylebone
Salary: £85,431 - £97,148 pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 31/08/2025 23:59

Innovation Lead (Commercial and Partnerships)

NHS AfC: Band 8c

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Programme Leadership

· Lead delivery of OLS commissioned Innovation Exchange activity, ensuring alignment with health system need.

· Shape strategic direction and growth of our innovation ecosystem workstreams, ensuring high-quality delivery and robust stakeholder engagement.

Partnerships Management

Build and maintain trusted relationships with relevant stakeholders including NHS, academia, SMEs, life sciences companies, VCs.
Connect innovators to NHS demand; broker collaborations that enable adoption and spread of impactful innovation.
Support SMEs and commercial innovators to navigate NHS systems, health economics, and real-world validation.’

Innovation Adoption & Scale

Support NHS partners in selecting, implementing and evaluating high-impact innovations, focusing on scalable, evidence based solutions.
Work across ICHP’s missions and ICS priorities to embed innovation.

Commercial & Business Development

Identify and develop new business opportunities securing contracts and strategic partnerships with NHS organisations and industry.
Develop commercially viable offerings and support the design of new products and services that support ICHP and system priorities.
Lead bids, tenders, and funding proposals, collaborating with internal teams and external partners.

Person specification

Knowledge and experience

Essential criteria

Experience in delivering complex healthcare-related improvement projects and programmes, and working alongside senior clinical and operational professionals
Experience of working at a senior level in health service, local authority, academic, or related field
Experience in delivering complex healthcare-related improvement projects and programmes, and working alongside senior clinical and operational professionals
Experience of supporting industry partners at different levels of maturity from start-ups to established industry players
Well-organised, able to prioritise, and flexible to with emergence of issues in a rapidly changing, dynamic environment. Ability to anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery
Competent at working with quantitative and qualitative data to deliver relevant, robust, and action-oriented conclusions

Values, behaviours and personal attributes

Essential criteria

Demonstrable commitment to the organisation’s values, which are: collaboration, courage, quality, and impact. Commitment to focus on quality, to promotes high standard, and to consistently improve patient outcomes.

Skills and Capabilties

Essential criteria

Competent at working with quantitative and qualitative data to deliver relevant, robust, and action-oriented conclusions

Timewise helps businesses to attract and develop the best talent through flexible working.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Abeer Itrakjy
Job title: Associate Director – Innovation and Implementation
Email address: [email protected]

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Innovation Lead (Commercial and Partnerships)

NHS AfC: Band 8c

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Working for our organisation

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Person specification

Knowledge and experience

Essential criteria

Values, behaviours and personal attributes

Essential criteria

Skills and Capabilties

Essential criteria

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