Operations Director NEW Medirest Posted today £110,000 per year Chertsey Operations

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.

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.

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.

• 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.

• £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.