Associate Director, Healthcare Advisory

**JOB DESCRIPTION**:
**NEW GROUND WON’T BREAK ITSELF.**

In Public Services Advisory, we have worked on some of the UK's largest and most high profile public sector clients, infrastructure projects and public policy programmes. At their core these assignments focused on creating value across the whole of the UK(and internationally) providing infrastructure and services that deliver economic and social benefits for current and future generations.

Every day our teams help people in businesses and communities to do what is right and achieve their goals. Our purpose is to make a difference by working hand in hand with our public and private sector clients on significant public sector projects and issues.We are a team that has public service at its heart. The team works both virtually and from seven Grant Thornton offices - London, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Manchester and Leeds. The team is made up of the following sectors and disciplines:

- Transport
- Net zero
- Healthcare
- Real Estate and Assets
- Defence
- Financial modelling and analytics

In Healthcare we are creating one of the leading NHS advisory and consultancy businesses in the UK. We have ambitious plans which involve the creation of a multidisciplinary team of more than 30 professionals - a team which has public service at its heart.We work hand in hand with the NHS to help it to get better value for money and manage risk. We offer a full range of financial and commercial advisory and consultancy services to the NHS. We will help the NHS to deliver capital projects, collaborative structuresand arrangements, contracting, clinical coding, financial analysis and assurance, modelling, data analytics, performance improvement, system transformation and the integration of healthcare, social care and life sciences.

If you enjoy working on a wide-reaching range of projects that will help businesses and communities flourish, you’ll fit right in.

We’re happy to talk flexible working and consider reduced hours and job shares, we’ll support you to balance your work and life.

**A look into the role**

As an Associate Director within our Healthcare team in Public Services Advisory, you will:

- Support in the development and implement of our strategy for the Healthcare sector
- Contribute to the delivery of complex projects to quality, timeliness and financial targets and be responsible for delivering smaller projects
- Lead of the development of smaller proposals and support the development of complex proposals
- Contribute to business development, building relationships with people and organisations in the Health sector
- Build and maintain strong relationships with your team and our clients
- Coach and develop junior colleagues and inspire people to reach their potential
- Develop methods and knowledge in the healthcare team
- Contribute and promote thought leadership pieces in the Health sector.

**Knowing you’re right for us**

Joining us as an Associate Director, the **minimum criteria**you’ll need is a university qualification or relevant experience. A professional qualification (e.g. ACA, CIPFA, CIMA, CFA, Prince2) is desirable and you will have:

- Significant experience of working with or within the public sector, or have a desire to work with the public sector
- A portfolio of experience of managing major transactions/assignments with a range of organisations in particular projects and capital projects with the NHS
- A track record in business development in your sector and winning competitive tenders
- Worked in teams where you have had line management/ oversight responsibilities
- Evidence of taking ownership for setting and delivering team goals and monitoring individual project targets in terms of utilisation, revenue and gross margin
- Strong understanding and demonstrable experience of contractual requirements and commercial issues relevant to your sector
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with experience of reporting and presenting to clients or relevant stakeholders
- A commitment to diversity and inclusion
- Good project management skills with a record of delivering projects to time, quality and financial deadlines
- Good inter-personal skills with the ability to build and develop a network of clients

It would be great if you had some of the following skills, but don’t worry if you don’t tick every box, we’ll help you develop along the way.
- Understanding of NHS operations, performance and finance
- Awareness of current NHS policy and issues
- Good inter-personal skills with the ability to build and develop a network of clients

**Knowing we’re right for you**

Embracing uniqueness, the culture at Grant Thornton thrives on the contributions of all our people, we never settle for what is easy, we look beyond to deliver the right thing, for everyone. Building an inclusive culture, where we value difference and respectour colleagues helps our people to perform at the best of their ability and realise their potential.

Our open and accessible culture means you’ll interact with leaders who are interested in you and everything you bring to our firm. The things that set you apart, we value them. That’s why we give you the freedom to bring your whole self to work and pursueyour passions inside and outside of work.

**Beyond the job**

Life is more than work. The things you do, and the people you’re with outside of work matter, that’s why we’re happy to look at flexible working options for all our roles, and we’ll always do our best to keep your work and life in balance.

The impact you can make here will go far beyond your day job. From secondments, to fundraising for local charities, or investing in entrepreneurs in the developing world, you’ll be giving back to society. It’s that drive to do the right thing that runs throughour every move, grounded in our CLEARR values - Collaboration, Leadership, Excellence, Agility, Respect and Responsibility.