Senior Project Manager

General Dental Council; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 47,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days holiday and 8 bank holidays

Flexi-time scheme

Employer pension contributions up to

Buy/Sell annual leave

Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption

Life assurance and income protection

Staff discounts

Job summary

The General Dental Council is seeking a Senior Project Manager in Birmingham to drive business improvement and organisational change. You will lead the specialist project management team delivering the GDC’s portfolio of strategic projects and partner with colleagues across the organisation to implement practical solutions.

You will distil complex issues, develop actionable plans, and keep governance, risks and stakeholders engaged.

Qualifications

• Proven track record delivering complex business improvements and programmes.
• Experience with waterfall, agile and hybrid project methods.
• Ability to translate complex issues into clear problems and actions.
• Strong governance, risk management and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and mentoring others.

Responsibilities

• Lead the portfolio of strategic projects across the organisation.
• Identify opportunities for improvement and delivery of practical solutions.
• Balance strategic thinking with practical delivery during change initiatives.
• Ensure projects deliver measurable benefits with effective governance.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Change management

Project leadership

Analytical thinking

Job description

Senior Project Manager

Salary: £47,189 - £55,516

Location: Birmingham – Hybrid (2 days working from our Birmingham office, 3 days working from home)

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full-time

About the role

We're looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager who thrives on driving business improvement, leading organisational change and making complex challenges easier to solve. The successful candidate will play a key role in our specialist project management team delivering the GDC’s portfolio of strategic projects.

Working across a diverse range of projects, you'll partner with colleagues from across the organisation to identify opportunities for improvement, simplify complex business issues and deliver practical, sustainable solutions. You'll be responsible for leading change that improves the way we work, ensuring projects deliver measurable benefits while maintaining effective governance, managing risks and engaging stakeholders.

Success in this role means being able to distil complex, multi-disciplinary issues into clear problems, develop practical solutions and bring people with you throughout the change journey. You'll balance strategic thinking with practical delivery, helping the organisation navigate change with confidence while managing and developing Project Managers and Project Officers (maximum of 2).

About you

You’ll be an accomplished project and change professional with a passion for improving business processes and delivering meaningful organisational change.

• A proven track record of delivering complex business improvement and transformation programmes and using waterfall, agile and hybrid methodologies.
• The ability to simplify complexity by analysing multi-disciplinary issues, identifying root causes and developing practical, achievable solutions.
• Strong change management skills, with experience supporting people through organisational change and embedding new ways of working.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence, challenge constructively and build consensus across a wide range of audiences.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and coordinating multiple projects with proportionate levels of governance and control and competing priorities.
• Excellent analytical, communication and presentation skills, enabling you to translate technical or complex information into clear, accessible messages for different audiences.
• A continuous improvement mindset, always looking for opportunities to improve processes, reduce complexity and deliver better outcomes.

About Us

The GDC is the UK-wide regulator of all dental professionals, across seven professional titles. Our primary purpose is to protect patient safety and maintain public confidence in dental services. To achieve this, we register qualified dental professionals, set standards for the dental team, investigate complaints about dental professionals' fitness to practise, and work to ensure the quality of dental education.

Our work matters and so do our people. We are committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion by recruiting and strengthening our teams with team members from different backgrounds, life experiences and viewpoints. Equality and diversity are not just words; they are what makes our teams strong and able to deliver. We want to be champions of diversity and to have a sense of belonging in the workplace, where everybody has the chance to contribute and to share what is important to them.

Benefits

The GDC is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace that provides an environment that reflects our values and culture and allows employees to flourish.

To support this, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, including flexible working arrangements from day one and employee networks that aid growth and development.

Some of our benefits include:

• 27 days’ holiday (plus 8 bank holidays) - rising to 30 days (plus 8 bank holidays) after 2 years’ service
• Flexi-time scheme
• Employer pension contributions up to 10%
• Buy/Sell annual leave
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption leave from 1 years’ service
• Life assurance, income protection plan and enhanced sick leave policy
• Staff discounts, including retail, eye care contributions and discounted gym membership

Closing and Interview Dates

Closing date: 23:59 on Sunday 11 October 2026

First interviews: week commencing 19 October 2026

Second interviews: week commencing 26 October 2026