Programme Manager - (Maternity Cover - 12 months FTC)

We are on the search for an experienced Programme Manager with a passion for driving impactful projects. We’re seeking someone to collaborate closely with internal teams, external partners, and suppliers. You’ll be helping us build capabilities that support our participant recruitment programme, a vital part of our mission. You’ll play a pivotal role in driving successful product delivery across 2 workstreams, shaping the success of this programme. We are looking for someone who has excellent facilitation and coaching skills who can respond quickly to change, thriving in, and helping to make sense of ambiguity bringing collaboration and focus to key workstreams. 

 Our Future Health will be the UK’s largest ever health research programme, bringing people together to develop new ways to detect, prevent and treat diseases. We are a charity, supported by the UK Government, in partnership with charities and industry. We work closely with the NHS and with public authorities across all nations and regions of the UK.

Our plan is to bring together 5 million volunteers from right across the UK who will be asked to contribute information to help build one of the most detailed pictures we have ever had of people’s health. Researchers will be able to use this information to make new discoveries about human health and diseases. So future generations can live in good health for longer.

What you’ll be doing: 

• Programme Management Expertise: Help drive 2 key workstreams to build comprehensive delivery plans drawing on expertise from Product, Technology, Operations, Science and Ethics. 

• In-Team Leadership: Coach and guide our teams through a mixture of traditional and Agile practices. We’re all about collaboration! 

• Operational Excellence: Establish efficient ways of working, unblock obstacles, and liaise with other Delivery Managers to untangle interdependencies. 

• Progress Reporting: Keep everyone in the loop by providing regular updates on project milestones and delivery. 

• OKR Champion: Help us stay on track by updating and aligning our Objectives and Key Results. 

• Team Enablement: Be the facilitator who empowers our busy team, freeing them from administrative burdens. 

Who you are: 

• Delivery Dynamo: Your strong delivery background is essential. You thrive in discovery stages with multi-disciplinary team and understand the business impact beyond the software development lifecycle. 

• Outcome-Oriented: Conversations and workshops are your playground. You focus on deliverables that solve real user and business problems. 

• Collaboration Catalyst: You build relationships easily and work closely with cross-functional teams, including Product, Design, Engineering and external vendors. 

• Streamlined Delivery: You’re comfortable leading diverse technology and digital projects, ensuring smooth execution across competing priorities. 

• Best Practices Champion: You’re an enabler, adept at standardizing ways of working and driving best practice. 

• Strong Communicator: You are a strong communicator who can build and maintain momentum in project teams. You will have solid organisational skills with the ability to lead delivery of multiple initiatives while managing multiple dependencies 

Requirements

Though we don't expect you to have experience within each bullet point, experience as a Delivery Manager or Project Manager with either; agency, startup, Health-tech, consumer product or significant digital service / product experience would set you up for success in this role. 

• Proven experience with discovery and early stage teams (digital products/services). 

• Proven ability to organise and structure a newly formed team’s delivery  

• Demonstrable delivery success (digital product/service delivery). 

• Proficiency in tools like Confluence, JIRA, Miro, and MS Sharepoint. 

• Vendor management expertise. 

• Strong stakeholder relationship skills. 

• Data-driven insights and reporting. 

• Track record of managing multiple projects. 

• Agile product development familiarity. 

• Healthtech, research or biotechnology experience (desired but not essential). 

Benefits

• Salary band £55,000 - £65,000
• Generous company pension package with employer contributions of up to 12%.
• 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays.)
• Continuous career development with regular appraisals and learning and development opportunities.
• A lovely new office in Holborn, Central London – we offer flexible and remote working arrangements.

Join us - let’s prevent disease together.

Applications close on Wednesday 20th of November.