Director, Digital Health Care, TST , UKI

Director  - Digital Healthcare -  Technology Consulting, UKI

London and Regional Offices

At EY, you will have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture, and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.  

The opportunity and What we Look for

EY is experiencing an increasing demand for its Health consulting expertise. We are seeking to expand our team of skilled and experienced Directors who are already delivering impact and value for our health clients across the UK or Ireland.

We are currently looking for a highly skilled and experienced Digital Health Director to join our growing Digital Health Practice. This role is pivotal in driving the continued growth of our practice by leading high-impact projects with our public and private health clients across the UK. The successful candidate will work directly with clients to understand their business needs, lead the design of digitally enabled health and care services, and implement solutions that improve patient outcomes and care delivery processes.

EY Technology has a ‘Technical Career Path’ to provide our talent with a career path that offers structure for performance management for those with deep technical skills. The demand for our services is higher than ever and we need experienced individuals who will grow and succeed with us.

Your Responsibilities

Strategic & Client Leadership

• Lead strategic relationships with Health Board-level and senior executives across Providers, ICSs, regional and national health organisations.
• Act as a trusted adviser on the pursuit, design, and end-to-end delivery of large scale, high-impact digital health projects and programmes.
• Oversee multiple complex technology programmes using AI and data, ensuring delivery excellence, commercial performance, risk management, and high-impact outcomes.

Practice Leadership & Sector Growth

• Drive market strategy, proposition development, and thought leadership for the Health practice embedding Digital and Technology into everything we do
• Building and managing relationships with EYs Digital and Technology alliance partners and supporting collaborative go to market strategies

• Identify and lead business development pursuits to drive growth in the Digital Health Practice. This includes utilisation of existing relationships/networks translating market need into key strategic drivers for growth.

• Act as a visible ambassador for EY’s values and quality standards within the sector.
• Provide technical leadership to on-, near- and off-shore technical teams, vendors and external partners to ensure the successful and compliant delivery of client engagements.

Business Development & Revenue Growth

• Own and grow a significant revenue portfolio, with accountability for pipeline generation, conversion, and multi‑year client relationships.
• Lead development of major proposals and bids, including acting as Bid Lead for high‑value pursuits.

People Leadership & Culture

• Leadership responsibility to support the management, mentorship, professional development and growth of junior colleagues, developing key capabilities and Digital Healthcare domain expertise in line with the Healthcare Technology Strategy

• Champion diversity, inclusion, psychological safety, and wellbeing across project teams.

Skills and Attributes for success

• Proven ability to lead and manage large scale, multi-year, high-impact digital health programmes.

• Deep experience in technical roles at a consulting/professional services company, System Integrator or customer environment in Enterprise

• Proven client experience in leading delivering projects utilising both Waterfall and Agile methodologies

• Experience of designing and implementing IT roadmaps and blueprints, creating value through Service Architecture, developing Cloud and Digital strategies, specialising in two or more of the core IT Strategy disciplines:
  • Transformation Delivery
  • IT Strategy & Enablement
  • IT Service Management
  • IT Operating Model
  • Service Architecture
  • IT Sourcing

• Significant experience of digital health and ICT enabled transformation.

• Strong understanding of UK (in particular NHS) healthcare landscape to include systems, policies, and operational challenges.

• Proven business development and client relationship management skills.

• Technical expertise in healthcare standards and electronic health record systems.

• Experience of leading and delivering complex Digital Healthcare engagements aligned to Government Digital Service (GDS) standards and NHS Digital Frameworks and standards (e.g. NHS Service Standards, DTAC, Clinical Safety Standards and Accessibility Standards)
• Significant experience developing and leading teams/engagements across data management, data integration, and data quality tools, alongside proven expertise in applying data governance best practices.
• Demonstrated experience of developing and or delivering Digital Healthcare strategies and transformation programmes for complex or multinational organisations across Healthcare or allied Public Sector organisations
• Able to lead the interaction with client organisations to write business or investment cases. Experience with Healthcare/Public sector Business case process  is desirable to include SOC, OBC and FBC lifecycle and aligned to Green Book guidance.
• Knowledge of modern data architectures, cloud platforms and digital technologies
• Interest in further developing and integrating operations with technology skills

What we offer

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings, and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

The exceptional EY experience. It’s yours to build. 

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