Director for Business Development

NHS
Position Director for Business Development, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 29 September 2025

Overview This post will provide an exceptionally dynamic, driven individual with an exciting opportunity to join and lead an innovative, growing NHS-based portfolio of ventures that work towards improving peoples lives and mental health in a financially sustainable way.

An interest in working commercially and creatively within the NHS, as well as an exceptional track record of commercial, strategic and operational delivery are essential, as well as a commitment to improving peoples health and lives. The post holder will report to the Executive Chief Commercial Officer, be part of the Commercial Enterprise Senior Leadership Team, and work closely with senior colleagues from within the Commercial Enterprise ventures, clinicians and senior leaders across the Trust and externally to develop partnerships to ensure high quality businesses and investments are created.

Main duties of the job

1. Work with the Chief Commercial Officer to grow and develop Commercial Enterprise and its associated products, services and ventures.
2. Support the CCO in the delivery and iteration of the Enterprise Strategy and any Trust commercial developments and/or strategic projects.
3. Drive forward business developments and opportunities across Commercial Enterprise working across and beyond the wider Trust, aligned to Enterprise and Trust strategy.
4. Horizon scan internally and externally to develop the strategy and associated ventures based on innovation and activities within the Trust, our partners, and beyond.
5. Assist in leading the Commercial Enterprise team with particular responsibility for the development and delivery of the Maudsley Commercial Enterprise Business Plan and activity.
6. Act an internal trusted advisor to the board, Chief Executive, SMT and Clinical Academic Group leadership.

About us Commercial Enterprise and ventures

Commercial Enterprise builds on initiatives going back more than 10 years and helps the Trust to fulfil our core purpose in three ways. First, to provide effective, responsive and efficient support services to our people on any commercial matters. Second, it takes to other organisations here and overseas via a range of platforms, the best approaches with which we serve people; and third it generates vitally needed investment to help us change the lives of people we serve.

Finally, Commercial Enterprise is entering an exciting time, with growing ventures and partnerships alongside new innovations emerging with commercialisation in mind. Consequently, this role represents a unique opportunity within the NHS to work across a diverse enterprise portfolio and drive forward the next exciting stage in our journey.

Job responsibilities Key Responsibilities:

These primary responsibilities are:

1. Corporate responsibility for the development and the implementation of the Trusts Commercial Strategy through Commercial Enterprise
2. Horizon scanning to identify commercial opportunities across the full range of public and private sectors with the ability to proactively set up, negotiate and seal deals that align with the Enterprise Directorate business plan
3. Lead the formulation of the business development strategy of the whole directorate within broader commercial objectives and be able to articulate, present and argue in favour of this plan across an array of forums including the Trust Board and external local and regional ICS and NHSE forums.
4. Support the CCO in developing the Strategy for Commercial Enterprise and be able to independently articulate, present and argue in favour of this plan across an array of forums including the Trust Board and external local and regional ICS and NHSE forums.
5. Lead on the gaining and development of new venture opportunities and operationalisation of new ventures as they come online whether from the public or private sectors both nationally and internationally.
6. Support the separate venture Directors / Managing Directors from Maudsley Learning, Maudsley Development, Maudsley Private Care, Trust Learning and Development and other developing units in the development of their specific strategies
7. Support the development of robust market analysis (national and international) to identify, qualify and understand specific new and existing markets and market developments e.g. information on size, growth rate, trends, profitability.
8. Work with external partners within and outside the NHS both within and outside of the UK
9. Develop appropriate business operating models for Maudsley Enterprise in line with the strategy
10. 2. Commercial Partnership management
11. Work with external parties to develop business opportunities for Commercial Enterprise, and be able to independently articulate, present and argue in favour of this plan across an array of forums including the Trust Board and external local and regional ICS and NHSE forums.
12. Consult with and support CAG leadership in the development of strategic commercial partners. Ensuring that the Trust selects partners on the basis of robust due diligence, market requirements, value add and trust wide strategy. Relationship manage those partnerships alongside the CAG leaders.
13. Providing assurance to the Board of management effective of income streams and risks, as well as accurate current position and forecasts.
14. 3. Commercial Contract Management
15. Provide focus towards exceptional contract management especially in tendering and running of contracts
16. Mange new and existing outsourcing, managed service and commercial contract planning and management
17. 4. Commercial Finance
18. To work with the leadership of Commercial Enterprise and aid the financial modelling of opportunities, both internally with Clinical Academic Teams and externally, working with the Trusts finance department and financial roles within Commercial Enterprise
19. Support the ventures/CCO in the development of their internal business plans, challenging where appropriate and providing a liaison role between Commercial Enterprise and the Trusts finance department and executive.
20. To lead the delivery of options appraisals
21. To be responsible for the setting up of appraisal methods where required
22. 5. Tender, Bid and Grant Management
23. Accountable for the overall delivery of formal tenders through the management of the Head of Operations and Bids authorising go/no go bid decisions and running a highly professional and co-ordinated bid team that deliver outstanding bidding results in both areas of income growth and maintenance of existing services.
24. 6. Team Management/Development
25. Support the CCO and team
26. Provide advice to internal teams around commercial operations, intellectual property and commercialisation.
27. Carry out coaching, development, performance of any direct reports and the Commercial Enterprise senior team. This will require a strong leadership position to be taken ensuring that the Trusts anti-racism strategy is implemented in full in all directorate work and that an array of EDI requirements are fulsomely addressed both internally and in extranlly delivered work, beyond race and ethnicity to include gender, LGBTQ+ and all other protected characteristics.
28. Management of the Commercial Enterprise overall budget.
29. Responsible for the management and training of intellectual property across the whole organisation and delivery/training of commercial skills throughout SLaM.
30. 7. Commercial Project Management
31. Lead and manage the development of non NHS income commercial ventures including structuring the shape of the opportunities and benefit models e.g. joint ventures and partnerships, and set these up in collaboration with external advisors as required
32. To support clinicians and other staff in developing ventures and generate related income and patents.
33. To provide commercial insight and input into business cases and projects as required
34. 8. Product and service development
35. Working with clinical staff and senior managers to identify new business opportunities for new and existing products and services and develop them through an appropriate process. This process should both screen and develop new products through a series of commercial gateways that consider; market positioning, competitor analysis, cost, revenue projections, risk issues, governance, and intellectual property and, promotional channels.
36. 9. Commercial Governance and Trust Committees
37. Prepare papers for, attend and present (alongside or on behalf) of the CCO to the Trust’s Partnerships and Finance and Performance and Invtesment Committee (FPIC) and Executive Leadership Team (ELT)
38. Develop the Business Development agenda working collaboratively with the Chair of the committees (a non-executive director), and CCO to ensure the Board is appropriately appraised on progress of commercial developments.
39. 10. Information Resources
40. To manage and implement information resources to support the documentation, recording and management of intellectual property which are in line with the UK governments guidelines on intellectual property.
41. To ensure that all work completed both in terms of grant and tender work that results in income generation as well as externally delivered work to any parties in whatever unit meet all GDPR and other information governance rules and regulations.
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