Head of Sector Insights and Commercial Strategy
Department: GCF - Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
Closing Date: 26 February 2025 12:00 am
Salary:£80,000 - £97,760 + GCO Pension, GCO Terms. Up to 15% performance-related-pay available on accreditation.
Location: London SW1H 0EU, Leeds, Liverpool, Reading. Occasional travel required between government offices to meet key internal stakeholders.
In DHSC, we are proud of our purpose – to enable everyone to live more independent, healthier lives for longer. To achieve this, and create a great place to work, we have four values: we are inclusive, we constantly improve, we challenge, and we are agile. If this sounds like an environment you’d like to work in, we’d love to hear from you.
The Commercial Directorate is a strategic and enabling function that supports all DHSC’s commercial interactions with third parties and ministers in delivering their agenda. Our mission is to ensure that health and care policy is implemented at best value for the taxpayer.
This is an exciting time to be part of the DHSC Commercial Directorate (CD) with an ever-growing need for policy and commercial professions to work closely to solve some of the most fascinating challenges in health and care. The Head of Sector Insights and Commercial Strategy post sits in the Sector Insights and Commercial Strategy Team (SI & CS) of the Commercial Strategy and Partnerships division which is part of the CD.
The role is to lead a multi-disciplinary team in their work to ensure commercial and market considerations are embedded in policy design. This role specifically leads the work on sector insights and commercial strategy for Secondary Care and Integration and Global Health.
The team offers an inward and outward facing service to senior DHSC policy officials, Ministers, and our ALBs. We provide long-term strategic commercial advice and support to major policy agendas with significant market forces in play. The department spends or influences billions of pounds through commissions and market policy, outside of core procurement and contracting. The team operates as a trusted partner with policy colleagues, taking commissions for fieldwork, industry consultation, market research, policy options appraisal and implementation design. Projects within the team are broad ranging and examples include social care reform, medicines pricing, life sciences collaborations, obesity interventions.
Locations: The successful candidate(s) will be able to agree a contractual workplace from those locations listed in this advert. When selecting your location listed in this job advert please be aware that this will be your contractual base location with a requirement to spend a minimum of 60% of your working time in this organisational workplace.
Your time spent on official duties at workplace locations other than your contractual office such as supplier, customer or partner locations required to perform your role is included in the 60% attendance. This requirement will however take into consideration any reasonable adjustments agreed upon appointment for people with a disability, flexibilities agreed for those with specific caring responsibilities, or other similar temporary flexibilities.
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