# Senior Planning and Costing Manager > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-planning-and-costing-manager/a2556f52-b2ad-4895-aadf-943af2c05c2a - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-planning-and-costing-manager/a2556f52-b2ad-4895-aadf-943af2c05c2a.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Gloucester - **Region:** South West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,582 - £77,368 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-15T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-21T15:51:06.472Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Gloucestershire/Gloucester/Gloucestershire_Health_Care_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Costing_Planning/Costing_Planning-v8020399 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8020399?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.ghc.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The Senior Costing and Planning Manager provides a central  role in the costing and planning processes across the organisation. You will join a small dynamic team within the Finance directorate that is responsible for a broad range of activities including business planning, business development, contract management and pricing and costing decision support. You will be an integral member of the team and will require working with a diverse range of people both within and outside the Trust. You will be a qualified Accountant, possess expert NHS financial and accounting knowledge, have strong analytical ability, and an excellent eye for detail. In this role you will have significant opportunity to use your initiative and learn about key strategic and operational challenges. ### Main duties of the job Your key responsibilities will be: - Leading the business development across the range of physical and mental health services. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that business procedures are efficient, effective and business focussed and protect the organisation from risk. - The Trust expert for mandated National Cost Collection returns and leading the enhancement of overall quality of costing intelligence and its use across the Organisation. - Leading the corporate service benchmarking and analysis of data to gauge efficiency and value for money - Leading the implementation of the Trust pricing and costing policy and provide expert pricing and costing support and guidance in the evaluation of business developments. - Overseeing the business planning process to monitor activity and ensure alignment with budget setting and operational planning. - Leading and managing the costing team You will be comfortable and successful working with a range of senior internal and external stakeholders, and in particular in building excellent working relationships with operational and other non-financial teams. You will be confident, tenacious, have an enquiring mind, and be keen to further your personal development. Another key requirement is the ability to work under pressure and adapt to changing priorities in a positive and flexible way. The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The Planning and Business Development within Finance Directorate is responsible for a broad range of activities including: - The delivery of business planning - Promotion of business development including managing tender applications, and seeking new funding streams - Income contract management for both NHS and non-NHS commissioners - Provision of cost modelling to support the introduction of new services, and developments to existing services - Managing and developing costing process, systems and reporting, including the production and submission of the annual national cost collection - Use of local and national benchmarking information to identify opportunities for improvement and efficiency including corporate benchmarking and productivity The Trust is required to work in line with the Government’s UK Visa and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information about sponsorship for certain roles, please visit - https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas ## Job Details The Senior Costing and Planning Manager provides a central  role in the costing and planning processes across the organisation. You will join a small dynamic team within the Finance directorate that is responsible for a broad range of activities including business planning, business development, contract management and pricing and costing decision support. You will be an integral member of the team and will require working with a diverse range of people both within and outside the Trust. You will be a qualified Accountant, possess expert NHS financial and accounting knowledge, have strong analytical ability, and an excellent eye for detail. In this role you will have significant opportunity to use your initiative and learn about key strategic and operational challenges. ## Job Description Your key responsibilities will be: You will be comfortable and successful working with a range of senior internal and external stakeholders, and in particular in building excellent working relationships with operational and other non-financial teams. You will be confident, tenacious, have an enquiring mind, and be keen to further your personal development. Another key requirement is the ability to work under pressure and adapt to changing priorities in a positive and flexible way. The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification. ## Responsibilities The Planning and Business Development within Finance Directorate is responsible for a broad range of activities including: ·      The delivery of business planning ·      Promotion of business development including managing tender applications, and seeking new funding streams ·      Income contract management for both NHS and non-NHS commissioners ·      Provision of cost modelling to support the introduction of new services, and developments to existing services ·      Managing and developing costing process, systems and reporting, including the production and submission of the annual national cost collection ·      Use of local and national benchmarking information to identify opportunities for improvement and efficiency including corporate benchmarking and productivity The Trust is required to work in line with the Government’s UK Visa and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information about sponsorship for certain roles, please visit - https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of managing a Finance Function in a complex NHS organisation - Complex financial planning experience and working in a strategic context. - Evidence of leading on a change initiative. - Experience of financial management **Desirable** - Previous line management experience - Significant experience of mandated National Costing Collections. ### Qualifications **Essential** - Qualified Accountant **Desirable** - MBA ### Specialist Skills **Essential** - Expertise in advanced financial modelling using spreadsheets and databases, and proven advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Business Information Warehouses - Expert knowledge of finance and accounting practices, procedures and policies particularly pertinent to the NHS including legislation **Desirable** - Clear understanding of broader NHS and government policies and strategies and the impact of these on Care Services - Experience of working with a range of software packages to interpret and communicate data ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 520.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10306837) - [person specification (pdf, 176.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10306836) - [staff benefits - ghc (pdf, 618.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2522) - [additional information for applicants (pdf, 408.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2656) ## 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.