Strategic Change Project Manager

ZipRecruiter; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 53,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health charity in the UK is seeking a Strategic Change Project Manager to develop and execute projects within their Strategic Change portfolio. The ideal candidate will have experience in leading projects within a large organization, along with project management qualifications. The role offers a hybrid work model, competitive salary, and a range of employee benefits including generous holiday allowances and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus flexible bank holiday options

Pension matched up to 7.5%

120+ learning and development offers

Flexible working patterns

Holiday buying and selling scheme

Life insurance

Retail discounts

Qualifications

• Experience leading and executing projects in large organizations.
• Ability to manage project teams effectively.
• Experience developing business cases including options appraisals.

Responsibilities

• Develop and evaluate projects in the Strategic Change portfolio.
• Collaborate with Business Leads to define project objectives.
• Manage projects within complex change programmes.

Skills

Project management

Agile methodologies

Change management

Analytical skills

Interpersonal skills

Problem-solving skills

Education

Project management qualification

Change management or business analysis qualification

Job description

Overview

Strategic Change Project Manager x 2
12 months fixed term contract
Full time (34.5 hours)
Hybrid between home and our Macmillan office (London, Shipley or Glasgow office)
£53,000 - £58,000 per annum

At Macmillan you'll find talented people working together to do whatever it takes to support people living with cancer. We're going all out to find even better ways to help even more people who need our support. Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions.

About the role

In this role you will be responsible for developing, planning, executing and evaluating projects in our Strategic Change portfolio – ensuring alignment to the wider vision and strategic direction of Macmillan and maintaining a focus on outcomes.

You will be working collaboratively with Business Leads across Macmillan, you will define the project’s objectives and drive progress throughout its life cycle.

The role will be deployed flexibly in line with organisational priorities, managing standalone projects, and projects within complex, cross-organisational change programmes, to agreed time, cost and quality criteria.

This role requires candidates to have demonstrable experience of operating in a very similar or comparable role.

About you

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills and experience:

• Demonstrable experience of initiating, leading, planning and executing projects and project teams to deliver within a large, complex organisation.
• Recognised project management qualification and experience of applying waterfall and agile delivery approaches to complex projects. Change management and/or business analysis qualifications and experience would also be desirable.
• Experience of developing robust and concise business cases including options appraisals.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships at all levels.
• Demonstrable analytical and problem-solving skills, flexing and adapting to changing circumstances.
• Preferable experience of managing projects involving procurement, technology implementation, people change, service development and process improvement.
• Experience of matrix managing project teams.

In return, we offer a range of benefits including:

• 25 days holiday plus flexible bank holiday options, increasing by 1 day every year of service up to 30 days
• Pension matched up to 7.5%
• 120+ learning and development offers, with access to external professional qualifications
• Flexible working patterns, such as compressed hours, flexibility to work earlier or later around our core working hours of 10am-4pm
• Holiday buying and selling scheme, life insurance, free wills, retail discounts and much more

Recruitment Process

Application deadline: Monday 29th September 2025

Interviews: Friday 10th and Monday 13th October 2025

To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all of our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed so that shortlisting is based solely upon the suitability of the candidate’s experience.