This role is available as a 12 month FTC to support with Maternity Cover.

We are hiring a Programme Manager to ensure the delivery of the Questionnaire Engagement Platform (QEP), including its roll out to participants and integration with other relevant systems within Our Future Health. This is an exciting time to join as you will be implementing a state of the art platform to manage interactions with participants and connect them with health research!

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.

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 a central data platform to support engagement and interaction with participants
• Through effective project management you will ensure quality and security of processes and data for researchers and Our Future Health participants.
• 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.
• 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.
• The ability to derive insights from data, support teams to do their best work, and effectively report up and down an organisation.
• Proven track record of leading and managing multiple projects at the same time with short- and long-term deadlines.
• Strong analytical skills and strategic thinking with an ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to find simple solutions out of complex use cases.
• Understanding of all aspects of an agile product development lifecycle, including; product strategy development, story writing and requirements definition, backlog prioritisation, development, QA and launch.

Benefits

• £65,000 per annum annual salary
• 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.