Engagement and Contracting Manager

at  Bupa

BE AT THE HEART OF OUR BRAVE NEW DIGITAL WORLD!

We thrive on cross-functional team collaboration, we embrace experimenting, and we work with progressive methods and tools. This includes leveraging agile ways of working and keeping human-centered design thinking the focus of everything we do.
This means you’ll be at the heart of finding better ways to help people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. Working in such a customer-focused and rewarding area brings a huge variety of opportunities for professional and personal growth. Our global mission is to help our customers live healthier and happier lives. Just imagine the impact you could make!

The Engagement and Contracting Manager role significantly contributes to the value proposition by negotiating appropriate, quality services and establishing risk management strategies to support the goal of sustainable affordability with contracted hospital providers. The position is accountable for negotiating with an allocated portfolio of hospital providers, managing benefit outlay (including negotiated indexation) within the annual operating budget, and for managing our provider relationships. It also supports implementation of appropriate systems and controls, including agreed actions from the governance uplift program.
This role is also accountable for ensuring the ongoing development and maintenance of relationships with their allocated portfolio of hospital providers including regular formal and informal engagement with providers to surface and resolve issues early, identify streamline opportunities and embed stronger, deeper relationships. It will also work with the Head of Strategic Partnerships & Innovation to support agreed initiatives with strategic partnerships and exploration of new models of care.