Job overview
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NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight is seeking a Senior Commissioning Manager for Acute and Specialised Care to join our team and lead strategic commissioning, redesign and change programmes. Working across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight the role is responsible for leading commissioning, redesign, transformation and associated change and improvement activities to improve the quality of, and access to, services for our population..
If you bring recent experience of designing, commissioning, and procuring services, analysing complex data and effectively managing contracts, this is an outstanding opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of people across our region.
Main duties of the job
You will analyse data and intelligence to inform commissioning projects and ensure services represent the best value and outcomes within the available resources, identifying opportunities to improve outcomes and experience, and deliver efficiencies. You will also have responsibility for developing and delivering commissioning activities throughout the whole commissioning cycle, including leading on procurement, market and contract management, service development and redesign. Along with recent experience leading service redesign, commissioning and contract management, you will have highly developed analytical, planning and organisational skills, and excellent communication skills.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the job description and person specification for more details. If you think this role is for you, please contact Emma Lewis, Deputy Director of Acute and Specialised Care on emma.lewis50@nhs.net or Dan Parr, Associate Director of Acute Care on daniel.parr6@nhs.net. We are looking to recruit and interview in week commencing 21 September 2026.
Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.
- Experience of working collaboratively with key stakeholders.
- Experience of presenting internally and externally to a variety of stakeholders.
- Ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive and contentious information.
- Ability to give formal presentations at senior level.
- Ability to write clear, concise and balanced reports for consideration.
- Ability to negotiate and influence stakeholders.
- Ability to sensitively impart unwelcome news to stakeholders on occasion.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and trust.
Desirable
- Experience working with clinicians and clinical leads
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Ability to make judgements on a range of complex issue where there are conflicting views or incomplete information and/or a number of courses of action, using experience to make inferences and inform decision making
- Highly developed planning and organisational skills.
- Ability to contribute to the development of short-, medium-, and long-term plans which deliver organisational objectives.
- Ability to undertake equality and quality impact assessments, and deliver equality and diversity improvements.
- Ability to determine, prioritise and manage work to deliver priorities within timescales.
- Ability to work with, engage and motivate staff, colleagues and stakeholders in planning and implementation of change.
- Ability to work without supervision, working to tight and often changing timescales, in a busy environment.
- Flexibility and resilience, ability to cope with uncertainty and change.
- Attention to detail and accuracy, reliable under pressure and able to concentrate whilst dealing with frequent interruptions.
- Ability to interpret complex national strategies and policies and apply them to own area of work, proposing policy or other changes.
- Ability to provide training, advice and support.
- Ability to devise, maintain and improve information systems.
Qualifications and experience
Essential
- Educated to Masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
- Programme/ project management qualification and/or management qualification, or equivalent level of experience.
- Experience of working in a similar role with the NHS.
- Experience of leading service development, redesign and change across organisations.
- Experiencing of researching best practice and making recommendations to deliver optimal outcomes for all stakeholders.
- Experience of managing and monitoring budgets, and working knowledge of financial processes.
- Experience of designing, commissioning and procuring services, and of managing contracts.
- Experience of planning and organising a broad range of complex activities, formulating and adjusting plans and strategies if required.
- Experience of producing strategies and/or policies and/or plans.
- Experience of line management and providing indirect management/ leadership of project teams, working groups or similar.
Analytical and problem solving skills
Essential
- Good analytical skills with ability to analyse, interpret, challenge and present a range of complex information and data, and to develop a range of options.
- Ability to draw qualitative and quantitative information from a range of services and present it in a clear and concise way.
- Ability to effectively plan, analyse and resolve problems.
- Ability to seek out, identify and implement opportunities for service improvement, to anticipate problems before they arise and offer appropriate solutions.
- Excellent problem solving skills and ability to respond positively to sudden unexpected demands or changes.
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This advert is for Senior Commissioning Manager with NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB in Omega House. It is listed as a Manager and corporate role. The advertised salary is £57528.00 to £64750.00. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 13 Sep 2026.
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