Associate Strategic Healthcare Planner (Health and Life Sciences)

Overview

In this role you will help grow and elevate healthcare strategy and planning as a leading service for NHS and private sector clients in the UK and overseas. You will lead and contribute to strategic analyses, models, and service models while ensuring quality delivery and client satisfaction. You’ll manage projects and teams on major commissions and support business development and tender activities. This position combines clinical/design insight with strategic planning to shape healthcare outcomes at scale. You will work within a global, collaborative HS+P team to deliver impact.

Pay / Benefits

• work-life balance
• hybrid working policy (home two days a week)
• Thrive wellbeing programme
• Virtual GP service
• gymflex up to 40% discount
• flexible working arrangements

Responsibilities

• Deliver healthcare strategy and planning advisory services across projects of varying breadth
• Lead project teams on major commissions and ensure quality delivery
• Support annual new business development targets and contribute to tender responses
• Provide technical inputs such as demand and capacity modelling, models of care, and briefing
• Facilitate client engagement and manage relationships within a portfolio
• Write reports, briefs, and contribute to business cases; peer review colleagues’ texts
• Develop service models and support quality assurance; assist in budget and project delivery management
• Mentor/train new team members as the business grows

Key requirements

• Extensive knowledge of health services and/or health facilities from clinical practice, health provider roles, or healthcare design-related professions
• Experience in healthcare strategy and planning with ability to apply Hospital 2.0 guidance
• Ability to undertake technical inputs (strategic analysis, modelling, briefs, schedules) and manage client-facing work
• Proven ability to lead teams and manage projects within budgets
• Strong client relationship management and account management skills
• Willingness to contribute to business development and bid/tender activities

• Interpersonal skills
• Facilitation skills
• Excellent writing skills
• Demand and capacity modelling
• Models of care
• Clinical/functional briefing

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