In our Senior Analyst role, you will be part of a cross functional delivery team working with NHS customers to deliver programmes, projects, transformation and services. Your role will be to bring advanced analytics and innovative, robust approaches to that team and to inform decision making and enhance impact. You’ll contribute analytical leadership and expertise across a diverse range of programmes supporting both immediate priorities and longer-term development. Your insight will help to embed improvement and deliver better outcomes for our partners and local communities.

• Build robust, complex and transparent models from initial stages to final outputs, using a broad range of analytical methods (includes biostatistics, epidemiology, financial, economic and workforce modelling) utilising a range of software tools including Excel/Power Query, Python and other specialist packages
• Application of a broad range of operational research approaches and techniques including forecasting, decision analysis, statistics, design of experiments and hypothesis testing
• Healthcare demand and activity planning across neighbourhood and system footprints to understand the impact of integrating services
• Problem structuring, root cause analysis and solution design are key activities for the job
• Managing a project which includes managing your own time, leading on analytical project design, planning and scoping are hereby key
• Support the development and implementation of innovative models of care working with multiple partners across the health and social care including the third sectors to support integration
• Engage with a broad range of stakeholders including clinicians, operational management, commissioning colleagues, along with wider stakeholders to contribute to the analytical solution so that they remain central to all decisions
• Act as the key analytical contact on projects responsible for the delivery of the analytical product and outputs, together with effective hand over and training

In our Senior Healthcare Management Consultant role, you’ll collaborate with NHS customers and healthcare organisations to design and deliver impactful change, and operational improvements aligned to the NHS 10-year plan and supporting customers to deliver programmes of work which address the challenges faced across healthcare. This role will have an initial focus on clinical reconfiguration and delivery of large scale, fast paced acute sector programmes as well as the opportunity to lead programmes across cost improvement, service transformation, digital and tech enabled change.

You’ll apply your consultancy and leadership skills to deliver complex projects and programmes that achieve sustainable transformation and enhanced outcomes for patients, communities and teams. Including delivery of cost efficiencies, process and quality improvement.

We are looking for professionals who excel at working in complex systems, identifying challenges, developing meaningful solutions, and leading diverse teams through multifaceted projects and programmes.

Your ability to think strategically while executing operationally will be key to success along with the ability to work with executive clients, senior clinicians and front-line teams to design and deliver solutions.

Attain is defined by our people. We are a collaborative, values-driven team committed to delivering lasting improvements in healthcare.

You will have the opportunity to:

• Design and deliver solutions that improve outcomes, processes and deliver large scale efficiency including clinical reconfiguration
• Work with colleagues who are passionate about improving health and care for local communities
• Lead teams to deliver complex programmes in different systems across the country
• Travel to different parts of the country, working with clients on site to deliver impactful change
• Focus on national and local policy development and share your knowledge and expertise
• Deliver internal work, which helps develop Attain’s solutions and drive business development
• Focus on personal development and career planning to support you to achieve your own personal goals
• Lead values driven teams to deliver large scale programmes and achieve associated outcomes

As a Senior Healthcare Management Consultant at Attain you will have the opportunity to work on a wide range of projects applying your consultancy experience, for example:

• Clinical re-configuration
• Cost improvement programmes
• Service transformation and redesign
• Digital and technology enabled change including process reviews
• Consulting projects including strategy development
• Working across regions, systems, places and at neighbourhood level

Attain offers a genuinely different proposition to traditional consultancies. We are a values-led organisation with a strong mix of public sector values and private sector thinking. A high proportion of our people have worked directly within the NHS, giving us real credibility with clients. Our teams work shoulder-to-shoulder with long-term NHS partners to deliver tangible savings, improve services and make a lasting impact.

We are deeply people-focused, investing heavily in career development, learning and leadership, with clear opportunities to progress within our business and into senior roles leading projects, care sectors and or portfolios. As a growing business, Attain offers exposure to varied, high-impact work, meaningful responsibility, and the chance to shape how we operate. We reward contribution and performance, foster a supportive and inclusive culture, and place real value on doing the right thing, for our people, our clients and the communities they serve.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Leading and developing high-performing procurement teams
• Line and performance management of staff, including capability development
• Providing senior procurement leadership for clients, including overseeing different spend categories
• Operating effectively in hybrid delivery models, with regular on-site presence within Provider Trusts
• Ensuring robust governance, delivery discipline and stakeholder confidence
• Providing expert advice and leadership on procurement compliance (Procurement Act 2023 / Provider Selection Regime / NHS Procurement policy / NHS Standard T&Cs)

You will demonstrate:

• Confident with strong leadership skills
• Agile and adaptable ways of working
• Excellent risk management approach – balance between outcomes/timescales and process/compliance.
• A strong action-orientation and delivery focus
• Resilience in challenging environments
• Clear, confident communication skills at all levels
• Able to provide assurance through delivery to clients
• A commitment to team development and capability building

You will work closely with:

• Clinical leaders
• Operational teams
• Executive and senior leaders
• System and organisational stakeholders

Building trust, credibility, and alignment will be central to your success as a leader.

The role will be in an NHS provider. The working environment is:

• Fast-paced, dynamic and often pressurised
• Frequently operating in turnaround or recovery contexts
• Requires resilience, adaptability, and pace
• There is a high degree of focus on delivering cost savings either tactically or strategically

Attain offers a genuinely different proposition to traditional consultancies. We are a values-led organisation with a strong mix of public sector values and private sector thinking. A high proportion of our people have worked directly within the NHS, giving us real credibility with clients. Our teams work shoulder-to-shoulder with long-term NHS partners to deliver tangible savings, improve services and make a lasting impact.

We are deeply people-focused, investing heavily in career development, learning and leadership, with clear opportunities to progress within our business and into senior roles leading projects, care sectors or portfolios. As a growing business, Attain offers exposure to varied, high-impact work, meaningful responsibility, and the chance to shape how we operate. We reward contribution and performance, foster a supportive and inclusive culture, and place real value on doing the right thing, for our people, our clients and the communities they serve.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Delivering cost improvement savings within NHS providers, with a focus on contract and third-party spend
• Working at pace to deliver an agreed savings target – normally in a pressurised “turnaround” environment – with a clear Return on Investment (ROI) expectation from your individual role.
• Identifying, quantifying and prioritising cost improvement opportunities
• Applying commercial levers, negotiation strategies and market insight to secure improved value for money
• Leading commercial strategies, such as, contract rationalisation / demand management / price-volume / indexation review / benchmarking
• Reviewing contracts to identify saving opportunities, commercial risk and optimisation potential
• Engaging confidently with executive leaders, including Directors of Finance and senior operational leaders
• Operating with a high degree of autonomy while contributing to wider Attain delivery teams
• Operating effectively in hybrid environments, with regular on-site presence on client sites

You will demonstrate:

• A strong focus on delivery of measurable savings. Taking accountability for personal savings targets and those of team members
• Confidence in commercial negotiation and influencing senior stakeholders
• Ability to analyse contracts, financial data and commercial arrangements
• Resilience and adaptability in turnaround and recovery environments
• Clear, confident communication skills, including at executive level

You will work closely with:

• Clinical leaders
• Executive and senior management teams (including Directors of Finance)
• Organisational stakeholders (including finance, procurement and operational colleagues)

Building trust, credibility, and alignment will be central to your success.

The role will be in an NHS provider. The working environment is:

• Fast-paced, dynamic and often pressurised
• Frequently operating in turnaround or recovery contexts
• Highly accountable, with clear expectations around ROI and impact
• Requires resilience, adaptability and pace