Senior Planning and Costing Manager

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Leading the business development across the range of physical and mental health services. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that business procedures are efficient, effective and business focussed and protect the organisation from risk.
• The Trust expert for mandated National Cost Collection returns and leading the enhancement of overall quality of costing intelligence and its use across the Organisation.
• Leading the corporate service benchmarking and analysis of data to gauge efficiency and value for money
• Leading the implementation of the Trust pricing and costing policy and provide expert pricing and costing support and guidance in the evaluation of business developments.
• Overseeing the business planning process to monitor activity and ensure alignment with budget setting and operational planning.
• Leading and managing the costing team

You will be comfortable and successful working with a range of senior internal and external stakeholders, and in particular in building excellent working relationships with operational and other non-financial teams.

You will be confident, tenacious, have an enquiring mind, and be keen to further your personal development. Another key requirement is the ability to work under pressure and adapt to changing priorities in a positive and flexible way.