Senior Strategy Lead

The Senior Strategy Lead is a newly established role responsible for providing rigorous, high-quality strategic analysis and insight to support and challenge the organisation's development and implementation of strategy. The post holder will sit within the Transformation team and operate with substantial analytical autonomy, supporting the team in shaping strategic options, evidence, tracking progress, and recommendations that inform decision-making at trust, NWL Acute Provider Group, and system level., Strategic analysis and problem-solving: Lead complex analytical and research activity to support strategic decision-making, working with a high degree of independence and pace, often across ill-defined or contested problem areas. Strategic narrative and insight: Synthesise complex qualitative and quantitative information into clear, compelling, data-led narratives that support decision-making at senior level. Stakeholder engagement and influence: Communicate with clarity and authority across a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, co-designing analysis, influencing priorities and outcomes through effective presentation, dialogue and facilitating engagement. Strategic capability building: Build organisational strategic capability by coaching and supporting colleagues in the effective use of strategic frameworks, analysis tools, and approaches. Strategy implementation: Coordinate the governance and systems underpinning the effective implementation of strategy, including analysis of strategy KPIs, reporting progress on strategic initiatives, leading progress review process of enabling strategies, and project managing trust-wide priority strategic initiatives.

The role requires structured, hypothesis-led problem solving, strong analytical judgement, programme management skills, and the ability to translate complex evidence into clear, decision-focused insight for senior clinical, managerial, and public audiences.

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond. Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people. We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.