Senior Strategy Lead
The Senior Strategy Lead is a newly established role responsible for providing rigorous, high‑quality strategic analysis and insight to support and challenge the organisation’s development and implementation of strategy. The post holder will sit within the Transformation team and operate with substantial analytical autonomy, supporting the team in shaping strategic options, evidence, tracking progress, and recommendations that inform decision‑making at trust, NWL Acute Provider Group, and system level.
The role requires structured, hypothesis‑led problem‑solving, strong analytical judgement, programme management skills, and the ability to translate complex evidence into clear, decision‑focused insight for senior clinical, managerial, and public audiences.
Main duties of the job
Key responsibilities
- Strategic analysis and problem‑solving: Lead complex analytical and research activity to support strategic decision‑making, working with a high degree of independence and pace, often across ill‑defined or contested problem areas.
- Strategic narrative and insight: Synthesise complex qualitative and quantitative information into clear, compelling, data‑led narratives that support decision‑making at senior level.
- Stakeholder engagement and influence: Communicate with clarity and authority across a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, co‑designing analysis, influencing priorities and outcomes through effective presentation, dialogue and facilitating engagement.
- Strategic capability building: Build organisational strategic capability by coaching and supporting colleagues in the effective use of strategic frameworks, analysis tools, and approaches.
- Strategy implementation: Coordinate the governance and systems underpinning the effective implementation of strategy, including analysis of strategy KPIs, reporting progress on strategic initiatives, leading progress review process of enabling strategies, and project managing trust‑wide priority strategic initiatives.
Person Specification
Education and Qualification
- Essential: Educated to Master’s degree level or equivalent level of experience.
- Clear evidence of continued professional development in strategic, analytical, or problem‑solving practice.
- Professional qualification or advanced training in statistics, analytics, economics, or a STEM‑related discipline.
- Advanced post‑graduate degree (e.g. MBA, PhD, or equivalent).
Knowledge and Experience
- Experience in strategy, transformation, or management consulting roles, demonstrating advanced problem‑solving capability and analytical rigour.
- Extensive experience of developing and synthesising complex quantitative and qualitative analysis, including financial and non‑financial information, to inform senior decision‑making.
- Experience of developing and reviewing strategic business cases or investment proposals.
- Strong knowledge of healthcare sector, NHS policy, operating context, and system dynamics.
- Experience of working with Board and Executive Directors of NHS organisations.
Skills, abilities, and attributes
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including the development of complex analytical and scenario models.
- Advanced PowerPoint and written communication skills, with the ability to structure clear, compelling, decision‑focused narratives.
- Highly developed analytical skills, with sound judgement in interpreting complex, ambiguous, or incomplete data.
- Ability to distil complexity into clear insight and communicate it effectively to senior and non‑technical audiences.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build rapport and credibility with a wide range of colleagues.
- Proven tact, diplomacy and political awareness.
- High level of organisation, self‑motivation and flexibility in approach and attitude.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate confidently and credibly at senior and Board level.
- Awareness of the practical application and limitations of artificial intelligence and advanced analytics, including in healthcare settings.
- Experience using programming or analytical languages (e.g. Python or R) to support exploratory, strategic or statistical analysis.
- Experience creating dashboards using QlikCloud or PowerBI.
- Demonstrate commitment to Trust HEART values: honesty, equity, accountability, respect, and teamwork.
- Demonstrate commitment to place Quality at our HEART.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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