Job Summary
We are looking for an exceptional individual to join the Pathology CSU management team as a Business Development Manager.
This role offers an outstanding opportunity to play a key part in delivering sustainable and high-quality services for patients and clinicians across Leeds and beyond.
The Pathology CSU is going through a time of significant changes with a transition to the Centre for Laboratory Medicine based at St James hospital and a new regional I.T. system, and further development plans to work more effectively with our partners in nearby Trusts.
The successful candidate must have excellent communication skills and a proven track record in service and process development within a Pathology environment, as well as leadership skills and the operational grip to support consistent delivery of key patient-centred pieces of work.
The Pathology CSU has seen significant changes with technological and scientific advances in recent months and this provides a great deal of scope for business development as we seek to maximise the benefits of these.
Main duties of the job
The post holder provides management support to the CSU providing a key business development function within the Pathology CSU. He/she will have responsibility for developing and delivering our business development strategy to support the CSUs role as a specialist regional and national provider of Pathology services.
The post holder will work closely with members of their CSU as well as the Trust contracting team and external stakeholders in the strategic development of the services provided by the CSU. This will include the development of relationships with key internal and external partners.
The post holder will ensure the CSU functions as an integral part of the Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust and that CSU and Trust-wide objectives are achieved simultaneously.
Devolved responsibility for both pay and non-pay budgets in the CSU
Be able if required to take responsibility for staff who may work Trust wide across several disciplines and clinical specialties
Assist in the performance management of the CSU
Have the ability to line manage administrative, clerical and secretarial staff within the CSU and take management responsibility for their personal development and performance review if required
Responsible for the co-ordination of the procurement of medical and scientific capital equipment (Via MSE bids)Assist in the operational aspects of major service and capital planning
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent professional qualification
- Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development, including a management qualification or post graduate diploma
- Management qualification or post graduate diploma.
- Career progression through continuing professional development.
- Willingness to undertake training and development as identified through the PDP process
Desirable
- Masters level in a related field
Skills & behaviours
Essential
- Management of complex budget
- Operational planning and implementation including strategic planning and options appraisal, and change management
- Demonstrates strong analytical skills, literacy and numeracy
- Experience in working in partnership with others to develop, implement and evaluate policies and strategies, including managing change
- Ability to work under significant and sustained pressure and to highly demanding and often conflicting timescales.
- Ability to maintain systems for keeping abreast of changes in the NHS and their impact on the CSU
- Commitment to team working with the ability to take personal responsibility for difficult decision making
- Ability to monitor, maintain and improve service delivery
- Awareness of strategic direction and ensure local business plans take account of the overall direction of the Trust
- Ability to communicate and network effectively, negotiate and influence others taking into account the multi-professional and organisational cultures
- Ability to produce a range of documents to varying audiences, both internal and external to the Trust some of which is of a confidential, sensitive or contentious nature
- Possess change management skills to include service reconfiguration
- Ability to establish processes and systems within the CSU to develop and monitor financial and business plans across specialist services working collaboratively with other CSU
- Negotiation and influencing skills and diplomacy
- Effective team leader and team player with the ability to work flexibly in a diverse and highly demanding organisation
Additional Requirements
Essential
- Change management skills including service reconfiguration
- Analytical skills, literacy and numeracy. Ability to analyse data and formulate reports
- Understanding and experience of information analysis essential for communicating business, finance and workforce plans
- Able to develop effective working partnership skills within and beyond employing organisation
- Presentation skills using a variety of options and software packages.
- Manage clinical and business risks developing action plans to improve performance.
- Ability to manage teams based on different sites across the organisation
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrates an understanding of both the NHS culture and of the cultures of the different health professional groups
- Sound understanding of the NHS modernisation agenda to include priorities from, National, Local and Trust Targets
- Work within the Trusts Standing Orders and Standing Financial Instructions and Clinical Governance arrangements
- Work within the Trusts Capital and Corporate Planning procedures
- Understanding and experience of effective information analysis, data interpretation and presentation, and software applications essential for communicating business, finance and workforce plans
- Good sound knowledge and understanding of writing comprehensive business cases
- Ability to proactively innovate potential revenue streams, devising pricing strategies / mechanisms and service level agreements.
- Experience in devising and delivering business plans and strategies
- Work within the Trusts HR guidance and toolkits for HR processes to include workforce planning, recruitment and selection, honorary contracts
- Understanding of Trust Policy and Procedure, e.g. HR/Risk Management/Clinical Governance
- Understanding of management and operational arrangements in the Trust
- Knowledge of the working of the NHS and wider healthcare system within England
- Workforce and capacity planning and developing business cases
- Experience of working in a Pathology environment
- Day-to-day people management including appraisal and objective setting, recruitment and retention
Desirable
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Closing Date: 20 November 2025
