Partner, Health Systems | Northern Office, Manchester or Leeds (hybrid)

The push to meet finance and performance targets, a new NHS operating model including neighbourhood health, and devolution are changing how health systems in the North work. CF is opening an office in the North to support them. We are looking for a Partner to build and lead it, winning work with NHS leaders across the region and growing a local team.

The Role

You will open and lead our new Northern office, in Manchester or Leeds (to be agreed with the successful candidate) and build a local business and team. You will win and lead work with the executive teams of NHS trusts and integrated care boards across the North, carry a personal revenue target, and lead the delivery of the work you win. You will shape CF's strategy and business plan for the North and build the CF brand in the region, and over time potentially in other markets. Reporting to the Managing Partner for Health Systems, you will be a member of CF's senior leadership team. You will develop our people: recruiting, mentoring and acting as a development sponsor, and building a strong local culture that stays closely connected to our London team.

We win work through relationships and insight. You will do well here if you enjoy meeting senior people, getting to the heart of their problem and shaping how CF can help, and if you are comfortable building something without the infrastructure of a large firm.

Requirements

What you will bring

• A well-established network of senior relationships across the North, including chief executives, directors of finance and other executives of NHS providers and ICBs, and NHS England's North East and Yorkshire and North West regional teams.
• A record of winning work and delivering a personal revenue target, with origination as a primary strength.
• Breadth across health systems, with the ability to originate, scope and quality-assure strategy, operational improvement and system transformation work alongside finance and performance.
• At least 15 years in healthcare consulting, or a combination of consulting and senior roles in the NHS, currently at Director, Associate Partner or Partner level.
• Comfort building something new without the support of a large firm, including running engagements hands-on.
• Based in the North, or willing to relocate, with regular travel to London.
• Desirable: experience selling data-led consulting, or opening an office or building a regional practice.

What you will sell

• Financial performance and improvement: provider financial recovery, cost improvement, productivity and system financial planning.
• Strategy and transformation: helping integrated care boards and providers plan and deliver change across their systems, including neighbourhood health, preparing for integrated health contracts and responding to devolution.
• Operational improvement: improving how services run and the quality of care they deliver, including elective recovery, urgent and emergency care and patient flow.
• Data-led consulting: our linked data and data science team sit within our consulting teams and are also available as direct services to clients.

About CF

CF is a specialist health consultancy with offices in London, Dublin and Riyadh, rated gold for Healthcare and Life Sciences by the Financial Times. Our mission is to make lasting improvements in health and healthcare, and to develop leaders in health. We work across the whole health sector, from the NHS and government to life sciences companies and health investors, and our consulting is known for its use of data.

Working at CF

We value being connected to clients and colleagues, so we work four days out of five in person, with clients on site or at our offices. On top of this, everyone has up to 44 extra remote working days a year, which works out at around three days a week in person. Holiday is 30 days, rising by one day for each year of service to 35. Our values are Be Connected, Uphold Standards, Inspire Change and Create the Future. We recruit, promote and reward on skills and contribution alone.

Benefits

• We offer a competitive and flexible reward package designed to support you at work and beyond it. You will benefit from a generous holiday allowance that grows with your career (minimum of 25 days), a strong employer pension contribution, and the freedom to tailor benefits to suit your lifestyle, from wellbeing and fitness to financial protection.
• We are committed to supporting life’s important moments, with enhanced family leave, income and life protection, and access to practical benefits that make everyday life easier, such as interest-free loans and travel support.
• Your wellbeing matters to us. You will have access to a comprehensive wellbeing and employee assistance programme, preventative health benefits, and initiatives that support an active, balanced way of working.
• Above all, we invest in our people; offering flexibility, security, and benefits that grow with you, so you can do your best work while building a sustainable and rewarding career.