Senior Project Manager

Nuffield Health Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Nuffield Health Group in London is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead a major transformation programme focused on patient flow across our hospital network. You will bring structure, pace and clarity to a complex delivery landscape while coordinating across clinical, operational and technology teams.

You’ll shape the programme, manage interdependencies and governance, with a proven ability to balance cost, scope and timeline and to engage Executive-level stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Value engineering complex programmes with evidence-based trade-offs.
• Mobilise large-scale transformation programmes across multiple workstreams.
• Strong planning and management of critical paths in complex initiatives.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional delivery teams and governance.
• Financial oversight including budgeting and forecasting; governance experience.
• Engage senior leaders with clear reporting and RAID processes.
• Collaborate across clinical, operational, support and technology teams.
• Excellent communication, organisation and problem-solving skills.
• Pragmatic, outcome-focused approach balancing pace and quality.
• Desirable: PRINCE2, MSP or equivalent qualifications.

Responsibilities

• Shape and value-engineer the programme, prioritising initiatives.
• Develop and maintain integrated delivery plans across workstreams.
• Manage interdependencies, risks, and issues to deadlines and quality.
• Create resource plans and secure workforce commitments.
• Coordinate resources across initiatives with business leaders.
• Own programme budgeting and track costs with Finance for transparency.
• Establish governance, RAID, reporting and delivery controls.
• Build relationships with stakeholders including Executive leadership.
• Coordinate activity across clinical, operational, support and tech teams.
• Identify risks and mitigation strategies to support outcomes.
• Foster collaborative and sustainable ways of working.

Skills

Value engineering

Programme planning

Stakeholder management

Agile

Tools

PRINCE2

MSP

Job description

Senior Project Manager (Project Flow)

Hybrid Working | Barbican, London | Technology | 14-Month Fixed-Term Contract

37.5 hours per week

At Nuffield Health, our purpose is to build a healthier nation. As the UK's largest healthcare charity, we're committed to improving the health and wellbeing of the communities we serve. Through investment in technology, innovation and continuous improvement, we deliver positive change that benefits our patients, colleagues and wider organisation.

Senior Project Manager (Project Flow)

Hybrid Working | Barbican, London | Technology | 14-Month Fixed-Term Contract

37.5 hours per week

At Nuffield Health, our purpose is to build a healthier nation. As the UK's largest healthcare charity, we're committed to improving the health and wellbeing of the communities we serve. Through investment in technology, innovation and continuous improvement, we deliver positive change that benefits our patients, colleagues and wider organisation.

We're looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager to play a leading role in a major transformation programme focused on improving patient flow across our hospital network. This is a high-profile opportunity to help shape and deliver a complex portfolio of initiatives that enhance operational efficiency, improve patient experience and support better clinical outcomes.

Working across clinical, operational, and technology teams, you'll bring structure, pace and clarity to a complex delivery landscape, ensuring initiatives are effectively mobilised, sequenced and delivered while maintaining strong stakeholder alignment across the organisation.

As our Senior Project Manager, you will:

• Actively shape and value-engineer the programme, prioritising and sequencing initiatives to deliver the highest-value outcomes early, while protecting the longer-term strategic foundations the programme depends on.
• Develop and maintain integrated delivery plans across multiple workstreams, applying Agile principles where appropriate.
• Manage interdependencies, critical paths, risks and issues to ensure successful programme delivery to agreed timelines, budgets and quality standards.
• Create and maintain practical resource plans, identifying workforce requirements, onboarding needs and resource commitments across the programme.
• Collaborate with functional and business leaders to secure, coordinate and optimise resources across multiple initiatives.
• Lead programme budgeting activities, working closely with Finance to define, refine and manage costs, track expenditure and ensure financial transparency.
• Establish effective programme governance, including reporting frameworks, RAID management, decision-making forums and governance ceremonies.
• Build strong and effective relationships with stakeholders at all levels, including Executive leadership, providing clear updates and supporting informed decision-making.
• Coordinate activity across operational, clinical, support and technology functions, maintaining momentum and alignment to programme objectives.
• Proactively identify risks, constraints and delivery challenges, implementing appropriate mitigation strategies to support successful outcomes.
• Foster collaborative and efficient ways of working that support sustainable change and successful adoption of programme deliverables.

To succeed as a Senior Project Manager, you'll have:

• A proven track record of value engineering complex programmes, making evidence-based trade-offs between cost, scope, pace and benefit, and bringing forward early value without creating technical debt or undermining future capability.
• Experience mobilising and managing large-scale transformation programmes involving multiple workstreams, stakeholders and dependencies.
• Strong expertise in programme planning, delivery sequencing and management of critical paths across complex initiatives.
• Demonstrable experience in resource planning, workforce mobilisation and coordinating cross-functional delivery teams.
• Strong financial management capability, including budget ownership, forecasting, cost control and reporting.
• Experience establishing governance structures, programme reporting frameworks, RAID processes and delivery controls.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with experience engaging senior leaders and Executive-level stakeholders.
• The ability to work collaboratively across clinical, operational, support and technology teams to deliver successful outcomes.
• Strong communication, organisation and problem-solving skills, with the ability to bring clarity to complex delivery environments.
• A pragmatic, outcome-focused approach, with the ability to balance pace, quality and stakeholder expectations.
• PRINCE2, Agile, MSP or equivalent project/programme management qualification is desirable.

Why join us?

This is a fantastic opportunity to lead a high-profile programme that will make a real difference to patient and colleague experience. You'll join a supportive team and play a key role in delivering meaningful change across one of the UK's leading healthcare charities.