Programme Manager
Our Future Health, United Kingdom
Job Description
We are hiring a Programme to support and drive the delivery of our Research amp; Data programme. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the success of our digital transformation strategy, working closely with internal teams, external partners and suppliers who are required to deliver data into, and support the ongoing maintenance of our TRE Platform.
You'll join our team as a pivotal Programme Manager, driving the success of Our Future Health, set to be one of the world's largest health studies. In this role, you'll lead diverse technology and digital programmes, collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Procurement and external vendors, and ensure streamlined delivery across various teams with competing priorities.
You'll be a positive and motivated individual who thrives on problem solving and delivering on both current and changing priorities. We're looking for people that embrace high-profile programmes of work, with significant budgetary responsibility in a rapidly-scaling environment. You'll be adept at building relationships with internal teams and 3rd party providers with the ability to kick-start and maintain momentum across project teams of multi-skilled professionals.
At Our Future Health, our mission is to transform the prevention, detection and treatment of conditions such as dementia, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and stroke. We’re looking for people to join us on our journey. If you’re looking for a new challenge where you can contribute to helping future generations live in good health for longer, then we’re keen to speak with you.
What you’ll be doing:
- Working closely with internal teams, external partners and suppliers who are required to deliver data into, and support the ongoing maintenance of the TREs and Researcher Experience solutions.
- Leading diverse technology and digital projects, collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Procurement and external vendors, and ensure streamlined delivery across various teams with competing priorities.
- Adding additional capacity and support to the RDP Delivery team to help us standardise Ways of working and adopt best practices with vendors as well as integrating FIMs.
- Building relationships with internal teams and 3rd party providers with the ability to kick-start and maintain momentum across project teams of multi-skilled professionals.
- Crafting and executing a roadmap, balancing diverse organisational priorities.
- Managing vendors and 3rd party suppliers for optimal support and outcomes.
- Utilising and promoting best project methodologies and digital tools for distributed team success.
- Providing regular status updates, risk assessments, budgetary oversight, and resource allocation.
- Fostering strong stakeholder relationships, offering innovative solutions to meet diverse business needs.
- Evaluating project outcomes for continuous learning and improvement.
- Working with the broader Delivery function to support continuous improvement, uphold program standards, including maintaining documentation.
What you won’t be doing:
- Working in a siloed environment with no freedom to make decisions.
- Working in a place where you can’t see the impact your expertise makes.
The environment
We’re a rapidly scaling team of talented people who’ve come from start-ups, tech companies, the NHS and health charities. We’re creating something that will be used to transform the prevention, detection and treatment of disease - something that has never been done before on this scale.
We are searching for an organised and tenacious Programme Manager who can enable us to continue to work quickly and in an agile way to create a resource and platforms that will leave a lasting legacy for future generations.
Requirements
To succeed in this role, you will have some of the following:
- Proven experience working on multiple projects with technical engineering teams, ideally building digital products and services.
- Demonstrable experience in a programme management role with proven experience of managing successful delivery of projects, preferably with a digital product and service element.
- Proven experience using software tools to manage and enable projects (we use Asana, Confluence, JIRA, MS Sharepoint).
- Proven experience of working with vendors / 3rd party suppliers with the knowledge of when and how to challenge performance issues.
- Demonstrable ability to foster positive relationships as a primary point of contact for Project Delivery both internally and with external suppliers.
- An appetite to provide exceptional service with the ability to motivate colleagues and external suppliers whilst simultaneously holding them to project milestones where appropriate.
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