Commercial Director
London Ambulance Service NHS Trust, North Southwark, Southwark
Commercial Director
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London Ambulance Service NHS Trust, North Southwark, Southwark
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 3 weeks ago, 3 Jul | Get your application in now before you miss out!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
Job ref: 5da9abe2b9964aa0b4cfd2d8f4621b55
Location ref: North Southwark, Southwark
Full Job Description
Growing commercial income is one of LAS' seven core strategic priorities. To support this, the Chief Executive and Chief Financial Officer have worked with the wider Executive Team to develop a three-year commercial strategy that sets out a more structured and ambitious approach to commercial activity.
To deliver this strategy, LAS is creating a new Commercial Director role with overall responsibility for increasing revenue and improving profitability from commercial activity across the Trust. The post holder will be personally accountable for delivery of commercial income and surplus targets and for the overall performance of the commercial portfolio. The role will be central to building a more mature commercial function and delivering the strategy's financial ambition to grow from a current baseline of around £4m annual commercial revenue to ~£8m, generating approximately £1m surplus by 2028/29, with clear accountability for delivery against agreed trajectories and milestones., The Commercial Director role will focus on:Commercial portfolio performance and accountability - establishing a clear, consolidated view of revenue, costs, margins and risk across commercial activity to support prioritisation, decision-making and ownership of financial performance.Revenue growth, bid leadership and opportunity development - developing new revenue streams and expanding existing activity by coordinating bid writing, undertaking commercial due diligence, supporting contract mobilisation and shaping competitive offers, while engaging external stakeholders to articulate LAS' value proposition.Commercial contract management and negotiation - leading negotiation of new agreements and ensuring existing contracts are actively managed to maximise financial return, control costs and mitigate commercial risk.Enabling effective and profitable delivery - working with internal directorates and external partners to ensure commercial opportunities are operationally viable,
appropriately resourced and delivered in a way that achieves the intended income and surplus.
The role will be reporting to the Director of Finance and will be based at our headquarters in Waterloo although there will be some reasonable travel across our different sites.