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Operations Director

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Job Introduction
Operations Director - Healthcare

Hybrid (UK-wide travel) | £100,000+ package (DOE) + Benefits

Are you a proven operations leader with a track record of driving retention, growth, and excellence across complex healthcare contracts? This is a high-impact role for a commercially astute and people-focused Operations Director ready to shape the future of service delivery in one of the UK's most vital sectors.
About the Role

You'll take full ownership of a portfolio of healthcare contracts, ensuring every site delivers exceptional patient and client experiences while achieving commercial and operational success.

Your focus will be on retention, performance, and growth-building trusted client partnerships, developing high-performing teams, and ensuring sustainable, compliant, and profitable operations across your region.

This role demands a balance of strategic oversight and operational visibility-you'll lead remotely but stay closely connected to frontline teams and clients, ensuring the highest standards of care, safety, and service.
Key Responsibilities

Client & Contract Leadership

  • Strengthen long-term client partnerships through exceptional service delivery and retention strategies.
  • Drive operational excellence and continuous improvement across all contracts.
  • Act as the key strategic interface for clients, ensuring alignment with clinical, commercial, and compliance priorities.

People & Performance Leadership

  • Inspire, develop, and empower multi-site teams to deliver outstanding results.
  • Build a culture of accountability, wellbeing, and inclusion.
  • Lead through change with clarity, confidence, and empathy.

Commercial & Financial Delivery

  • Own full P&L responsibility across multiple contracts.
  • Drive margin improvement, cost efficiency, and sustainable growth.
  • Use data, insight, and performance metrics to shape strategy and decision-making.

Operational Excellence

  • Champion safety, compliance, and patient experience as non-negotiables.
  • Embed innovation and technology to enhance service delivery and reporting.
  • Ensure full regulatory and contractual compliance at all times.

What You'll Bring

  • Proven success managing multi-site, multi-stakeholder operations-ideally within healthcare, facilities, or complex service environments.
  • A demonstrable track record in contract retention, performance improvement, and client satisfaction.
  • Strong commercial acumen with the ability to interpret data and deliver results.
  • Inspirational leadership style-strategic, people-first, and performance-driven.
  • Exceptional communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.

Why Join Us?

  • £100k+ package with performance-linked benefits.
  • A values-led organisation committed to quality, inclusion, and innovation in healthcare.
  • Hybrid working with autonomy and trust.
  • The opportunity to shape service delivery that directly impacts lives.

Ready to lead with purpose and performance?
Apply now to take ownership of a major healthcare operations portfolio-and help deliver the standard of excellence every patient and client deserves.

Operations Director

Compass Group UK & Ireland
Chertsey KT16 9FG, UK
Full-Time

Published on 10/10/2025

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