# NWLP Director of Portfolio and Strategic Delivery > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for North West London Pathology. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/nwlp-director-of-portfolio-and-strategic-delivery/a2534d1d-9f83-443d-9919-400f35addc32 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/nwlp-director-of-portfolio-and-strategic-delivery/a2534d1d-9f83-443d-9919-400f35addc32.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** North West London Pathology - **Location:** St Mary's Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Director - **Grade:** Band 9 - **Salary:** £121,528 - £138,529 Pa Inclusive - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-27T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-13T10:31:12.633Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/North_West_London_Pathology/Pathology/Pathology-v8331108 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8331108?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.nwlpathology.nhs.uk/ ## Job Content ### Job overview We are seeking an exceptional Director of Portfolio and Strategy to join our NWLP team and continue to shape the future of pathology services. Driven by visionary leadership, strategic investment and transformative initiatives, NWLP has grown into one of the UK’s most forward-thinking diagnostic service providers. We are recognised as pioneers in England for establishing one of the first fully integrated NHS pathology networks. As a key member of the NWLP Executive Team, you will: - Provide strategic and operational leadership for a complex and far-reaching portfolio of programmes and projects for NWLP. - Ensure the effective management of the NWLP portfolio, aligning programmes and projects with the organisations strategic objectives. - Maintain strong partnerships across NHS organisations, integrated care systems and external stakeholders across organisational and system boundaries. - Operate with a very high degree of autonomy, interpreting national policy, system priorities and organisational strategy to shape the portfolio and strategic delivery agenda. As a thriving pathology network, NWLP continues to have an exciting future ahead as we work to deliver our strategic goals, focusing on our people, operational excellence, sustainability, innovation, technological advancement, and delivering value for our clinical users and patients. ### Main duties of the job - To provide inspirational leadership to the NWLP senior management teams and senior leaders and professionals across the organisation in service of delivering the NWLP vision and strategy. - Implement change management strategies that support the cultural and operational shifts required for transformation, ensuring staff engagement and buy-in at all levels. - Develop project scopes, budgets and programmes. Prepare highly complex and detailed reports and business cases that require sustained concentration and intensive focus to ensure they accurately reflect strategic objectives and financial impacts. - Drive the development of business cases for NWLP for major projects, securing investment and funding as required. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert. ## Person Specification ### Skills and Abilities **Essential** - Highly developed leadership, influencing and negotiation skills - Strong analytical and decision-making capability - Ability to manage complexity, uncertainty and competing priorities - Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building skills ### Knowledge and Experience **Essential** - Significant experience operating at Director or equivalent senior leadership level within a complex NHS or comparable organisation - Proven experience of leading large-scale transformation and change across organisational and system boundaries - Experience of influencing Executive-level stakeholders and system partners (e.g. ICBs, NHS England) - Strong financial management experience, including budgetary control and investment decision-making **Desirable** - Experience of operating at executive level across NHS organisational boundaries. - Knowledge and understanding of clinical services delivery, development, redesign, and best practice. - Knowledge and clear understanding of the background of laboratory diagnostics current challenges and future trends. ### Education and Qualifications **Essential** - Postgraduate qualification or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in relevant area. - Evidence of continuous professional development - MoP certified to Practitioner Level or equivalent experience managing portfolios and strategic delivery **Desirable** - Other project or programme management Qualification (e.g Prince 2, Agile) - Continuous improvement qualification ## Documents - [our strategy (pdf, 4.2mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3015) - [functional requirements (pdf, 104.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10654054) - [nwlp director of portfolio and strategy jd (pdf, 748.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10654537) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.