Job vacancy: Senior Commercial Business Manager, The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, 317 01 Freeman Hospital

Job summary

Main area: 317 Partnership & Relationship Management
Grade: Band 8b
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 317-2025-12-019

Employer: The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Freeman Hospital
Town: 317 01 Freeman Hospital
Salary: £62,215 - £72,293 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 10/04/2025 23:59
Interview date: 28/04/2025

Senior Commercial Business Manager

Band 8b

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 15,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.6 billion.

We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts each day, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To take a leading role within Business, Research, Innovation and Commercial, with line management responsibility for the Private and International Patient Business Office to drive the generation of revenue from commercial opportunities (CO).
To provide hands on commercial expertise to the Trust. This would include working with the Private and International Patient Business Office, assessing customer needs, providing up-to-date market analysis, defining commercialisation route and relationship of the opportunity to the Trust and developing business cases.
To set up and define a project prioritisation process which is aligned with the Commercial Unit’s vision and mission.
To manage a pipeline of COs and provide Assistant Director - Service and Business Development up-to-date and concise status reports, ideally using a visual dashboard methodology.
Working alongside the Assistant Director, take a leading role in the development and implementation of a strategic approach to maximising income generation and inward investment, bringing a commercial approach to external investment from collaborative joint ventures and other sources.
With Colleagues, take responsibility for:
Implementing a strategy to manage Intellectual Property (IP) in the Trust, supporting new company formation and/or licencing, as appropriate.
Developing and deploying a range of commercial partners to meet the needs of our educational, training and workforce development activities.
Drive and promote the NuTH Brand and reputation, identify, developing and managing initiatives to win and grow commercial activity and income for the Trust.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Person specification

Qualifications & Education

Essential criteria

Degree level education supplemented by postgraduate qualifications or significant relevant experience equivalent to a Master’s Degree level in an area of healthcare and or business development

Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria

Extensive senior commercial experience gained within multi-discipline large private sector organisations from the healthcare or life sciences field
Good understanding of Project Management
Successful track record at a senior management level in a complex organisation for a significant period. Highly developed understanding of health service issues and knowledge of the NHS

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria

Proven ability to lead and develop multidisciplinary and large teams within a commercial environment
A proven ability to research, analyse and assess company performance and future prospects based on market analysis, and company financial information
IT literacy, with the ability to produce high quality documents, presentations and financial models
Ability to work under pressure, managing multiple projects to tight deadlines
Adaptability and flexibility; capable of effectively dealing with high degrees of ambiguity and establishing a direction for others
Able to analyse complex problems and deliver practical, pragmatic, focussed results
Ability to work autonomously, with creativity, drive and flexibility

Desirable criteria

Project Management skills and or Business Development

Important note on completion of reference section of Application Form

All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.

Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.

Mindful employer. Being positive about mental health.

Better Health at Work Award - Maintaining Excellence

Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Helen Steadman
Job title: Asst Director Service Business Development
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 01912231001

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Senior Commercial Business Manager

Band 8b

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