Healthcare Operational and Financial Improvement Consultants in Manchester

Full‑time positions available at Consultant and Senior Consultant levels.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate workshops and deliver evidence‑based insights.
• Manage relationships with complex and senior stakeholders.
• Provide hands‑on support to clients in solving operational and supply‑chain challenges.
• Drive improvements in operational and financial productivity.
• Design and deploy organisational PMO structures.

Qualifications:

• Core experience delivering tangible improvement in healthcare operational environments from patient‑facing roles to corporate and commercial roles.
• Previous experience in delivering large‑scale cost improvement and productivity using project‑management principles.
• Core experience working and delivering within the healthcare sector – essential requirement.
• A track record of realising business benefits and improved outcomes in a healthcare setting.
• Wider experience deploying advanced techniques such as digital technologies, change management, operational risk management and supply‑chain management is advantageous.
• The ability to demonstrate leadership skills in large and diverse project teams.
• Experience working in partnership with clinical and operational teams to deliver improved performance.
• Confidence to work across multiple levels of an organisation, influence senior stakeholders and navigate challenging discussions.
• Ability to demonstrate core consulting skills such as presentation skills, stakeholder management and building rapport quickly.
• Strong consulting skills, including structured problem‑solving, data‑driven analysis, stakeholder engagement and translating insight into practical recommendations.
• Experience in one of the following sub‑sectors: healthcare in public and private sectors, DHSC, NHS Trusts, healthcare delivery providers.
• Ability to work independently, develop excellent relationships with stakeholders internally and externally, and deliver the highest customer service and business standards.
• Excellent interpersonal and team‑working skills; a natural integrator, comfortable navigating across system finance, care model design, governance, capacity and workforce modelling, clinical and operational excellence and working as part of wider teams.
• A drive for personal and professional progression.

Benefits:

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare.
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy five additional days.
• Generous company pension scheme.
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity‑based initiatives.
• Annual performance‑based bonus.
• PA share ownership.
• Tax‑efficient benefits (cycle‑to‑work, give‑as‑you‑earn).

We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, or any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from under‑represented groups.