Clinical Engagement and Implementation Manager - Diagnostics

Clinical Engagement and Implementation Manager - Diagnostics

Daresbury, Warrington WA4, UK •

Wakefield, UK

Posted Friday 7 November 2025 at 01:00 | Expires Friday 30 January 2026 at 00:59

ob Title
Clinical, Engagement and Implementation Manager - Diagnostics

Function:
Commercial

Location:
Wakefield/Daresbury/Hybrid

Contract type:
Permanent

Salary: £54,884 with potential to rise to £64,570 over 3 years

Closing Date: 29th January 2026

We have an exciting opportunity to be part of the newly formed clinical team our diagnostics category.

You will be responsible for ensuring the clinical and patient voice is heard in the national procurement setting, writing model service and product specifications, providing specialist clinical knowledge to inform procurement strategies, support NHS Trusts to ensure they are getting best value for money with product and service. Assessing and supporting innovation, sharing, and driving best practice.”

Assuring the clinical quality and safety of products and activity within a Category. Specialist Clinician or Industry product specialist with significant demonstrable and relevant experience working within the specific category product/s areas for a significant part of their career.

Focussed category product specialist and subject matter experts with a hands on and working knowledge of the category products and the clinical care associated with the category that they are placed in. Stakeholder management through a clinical engagement process, working across clinical and non-clinical stakeholder functions including regular presentations to teams of specialist clinicians and managing suppliers as part of portfolio activity.

Influencing uptake and the continuous improvement of the commercial offers by the suppliers through these projects.

Making recommendations for opportunities with products from across the market which promote standardisation, are clinically sound and have fiscal responsibility for best use of the budget. Chairing supplier / NHS product and award meetings/ events, ensuring that informed decisions are made which align to the parameters of the national framework agreement.

Every day you will …

• Use data from a wide range of sources to analyse key themes and identify possible impacts on the business. Comprehensive commercial understanding of the frameworks and market to take line level data and modelling this as clinical practice. Conducting complex analytics to review “current clinical practice needs” vs “future clinical practice needs” whilst ensuring that the end users are complying with national initiatives and programs and understand how decisions made may impact on these.
• Act as subject matter expert in an area of technology, policy, regulation, or operational management for the team. Maintain external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging external regulation and industry best practices through continuing professional development, attending conferences, and reading specialist media
• Communicate the local action plan; explain how this relates to the function's strategy and action plan and to the broader organisation's mission and vision; motivate people to achieve local business goals
• Ensure the organization is not exposed to undue risks by using risk management systems to achieve specific goals within a designated area of the business. Identifying risks associated with products and changes in product portfolios to ensure quality is maintained in the interests of the end users and patients with avoidance of unintended consequences following any procurement activity or supplier changes in the market.
  
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