Regional Director

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Regional Director to lead our team in the Northeast of England. You will be accountable for NHS & private customer relationships; commercial growth; and retention and delivery of services in your business area. You will be responsible for all commercial and management matters for your region including, but not exclusively, customer engagement, strategy development, business development, account management, operational management, operational excellence and governance. This role will cover the North-East and Yorkshire and as such we are looking for applicants who live within the region.

You will be responsible for:

• Customer engagement and relationship development with existing and prospective customers in your region.
• Identifying, negotiating and implementing new commercial initiatives with existing and new customer base.
• Ownership of tender / proposition development and submission for prospects in region, supported by bid programme management and workstream contributors.
• Delivery of regional performance targets across financial and non-financial measures.
• Researching, proposing and developing the regional strategy and overall commercial objectives.
• Defining the regional annual and long-term objectives and agreeing plans to achieve them.
• Leading the local management team, consistent with the regional strategy and commercial objectives agreed by the UK Board.
• Ensuring local managers are supported in delivering growth, operational excellence and productivity within their respective clinical services.
• Engaging internal and external specialists to progress clinical engagement with customers and prospective customers in the region.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Proven senior leadership experience within the public or independent health sector.
• Strong commercial acumen with experience in negotiating contracts and driving business growth.
• In-depth understanding of the NHS and regional health sectors, including current and future trends.
• Exceptional communication and relationship management skills, with experience working with senior NHS executives and consultants.

About Alliance Medical:

Alliance Medical are Europe’s leading independent provider of imaging services. We combine service excellence and innovative imaging technologies to improve patient care and support NHS and independent organisations with their ongoing imaging requirements. Our approach has delivered consistent company growth for more than 30 years.

We operate a robust pre-employment screening process for all roles which includes proof of professional registration and qualifications, DBS checking and occupational health assessments. We live by our company values to ensure the highest level of patient care:

• Our Values: Leaders, managers, and supervisors have a particular responsibility to be role models in terms of how they demonstrate these values themselves and how they engage their teams to work in this way. We work together and in partnership for all our patients. We respect expertise and combine it to achieve more. We never compromise. We strive to deliver the very best in everything we do to ensure the highest quality of care. We treat our patients and each other with compassion, dignity and respect.

Learning: Knowledge and understanding comes from learning. At Alliance Medical we are committed to ensuring that each and every one of us keeps on learning and that we continuously look for improved ways of working. Efficiency in healthcare means more patients get better care. We constantly seek new ways to use the scarce resource of healthcare more intelligently so that more people can live longer, fuller lives. We act with transparency and honesty in everything we do, where staff are encouraged to speak up to ensure a safe and secure environment for our patients.