About this role
Job summary
About the role
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.
About us
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
Job description Job responsibilities
To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Education and Qualification Essential
Essential oEducated to Master's degree level or equivalent level of experience oClear evidence of continued professional development in strategic, analytical, or problem-solving practice.
Desirable
oProfessional qualification or advanced training in statistics, analytics, economics, or a STEM-related discipline. oAdvanced post-graduate degree (e.g. MBA, PhD, or equivalent)
Knowledge and Experinece Essential
oExperience in strategy, transformation, or management consulting roles, demonstrating advanced problem-solving capability and analytical rigour. oExtensive experience of developing and synthesising complex quantitative and qualitative analysis, including financial and non-financial information, to inform senior decision-making.
Desirable
oExperience of developing and reviewing strategic business cases or investment proposals. oStrong knowledge of healthcare sector, NHS policy, operating context, and system dynamics. oExperience of working with Board and Executive Directors of NHS organisations
Skills, abilities, and attributes Essential
oAdvanced Microsoft Excel skills, including the development of complex analytical and scenario models. oAdvanced PowerPoint and written communication skills, with the ability to structure clear, compelling, decision-focused narratives. oHighly developed analytical skills, with sound judgement in interpreting complex, ambiguous, or incomplete data. oAbility to distil complexity into clear insight and communicate it effectively to senior and non-technical audiences. oStrong interpersonal skills and ability to build rapport and credibility with a wide range of colleagues oProven tact, diplomacy and political awareness oHigh level of organisation, self-motivation and flexibility in approach and attitude oDemonstrated ability to communicate confidently and credibly at senior and Board level.
Desirable
oAwareness of the practical application and limitations of artificial intelligence and advanced analytics, including in healthcare settings. oExperience using programming or analytical languages (e.g. Python or R) to support exploratory, strategic or statistical analysis. oExperience creating dashboards using QlikCloud or PowerBI.
Heart values Desirable
oDemonstrate commitment to Trust HEART values: honesty, equity, accountability, respect, and teamwork. oDemonstrate 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.
Certificate of Sponsorship 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).
Employer details Employer name London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
Address Northwick Park Hosptial
Watford Road
Harrow
HA1 3UJ
Employer's website https://www.lnwh.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)