Senior Programme Manager, Single Unique Identifier Delivery

NHS England; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS England's Product and Platforms Directorate seeks a Senior Programme Manager (Band 8c) to lead the Single Unique Identifier programme and related services within the Demographics Platforms domain. You will oversee complex, high-profile delivery end-to-end, ensuring alignment with NHS England priorities, governance and policy.

The role combines delivery leadership with governance and assurance to define and realise outcomes, benefits and progress.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering complex programmes with measurable outcomes.
• Ability to lead process analysis and improvements across projects, programmes and portfolios.
• Experience developing business cases and investment decisions.
• Knowledge of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) and applying them in delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of the SUI programme and related programmes end-to-end.
• Ensure strong governance across the portfolio.
• Manage plans, risks, issues and reporting.
• Coordinate subject matter expertise across teams and track measurable outcomes.

Skills

Programme management

Governance

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

Job description

NHS England's Product and Platforms Directorate seeks a Senior Programme Manager (Band 8c) to lead the Single Unique Identifier programme and related services within the Demographics Platforms domain. You will oversee complex, high-profile delivery end-to-end, ensuring alignment with NHS England priorities, governance and policy.

The role combines delivery leadership with governance and assurance to define and realise outcomes, benefits and progress.