Senior Business Operations Manager (maternity cover)
Health Innovation East has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Business Operations Manager to join our rapidly expanding Health Informatics team
Salary: £51,646 – £58,202
Hours of work: 37.5hrs/week (full time)
Deadline: 11:59pm Sunday 21 June 2026
Date of interview: Monday 29 June 2026
A bit more about the role
The Health Informatics team has specialist skills in delivering complex, technical programmes of work that include providing secure environments for storing and accessing health and other sensitive data to support health and care delivery, research, and innovation.
This is a fixed-term maternity cover position in a senior operational role within a high-performing and innovative team. You will play a key role in ensuring the effective and efficient delivery of the Health Informatics portfolio, while working closely with senior leadership to drive improvements in how the team operates, ensuring alignment with organisational priorities and enabling high-quality delivery across a diverse portfolio of projects.
This is a varied and fast-paced role, encompassing responsibility for core business operations, including recruitment, procurement, financial management, and contract oversight. You will contribute to the pipeline of new work by supporting bids and developing costings, oversee budgets and contracts, and act as a central point of contact for associates and contractors. In addition, you will lead on coordinating team processes and activities, support the delivery of events, and play an active role in team development initiatives.
Given the breadth of responsibilities, the role is well suited to a highly organised, proactive individual who is comfortable working across multiple systems, stakeholders, and priorities within a dynamic environment.
This is a chance to join a fast growing, dynamic company, whose purpose is to turn great ideas into positive health impact. Citizens, academia, health services and industry achieve more working together than in isolation. As part of a national network, we make this happen by bringing together all partners in the health sector, to develop and deliver innovative care. We are an independent company funded mostly through public money from the NHS, but we work with a wide range of innovative organisations in the public and private sectors.
This post is based in our Cambridge office, with opportunities for hybrid working. Flexible working hours compatible with the role can be considered (including the possibility of working part time). There will be a requirement to attend some in-person meetings both within the Eastern region and nationally.
How to apply
To apply please submit your CV and a covering letter by 11:59pm on Sunday 21 June 2026 to recruitment@healthinnovationeast.co.uk specifying your motivation for applying and how you meet our person specification.
Download the job description and person specification
Please ensure that your application contains a positive declaration of your right to work in the UK. If you are shortlisted, you will need to provide the appropriate evidence of your right to work in the UK as we will not be able to progress your application further without this evidence.
For an informal discussion about this role, please contact informaticsoperations@healthinnovationeast.co.uk.
If you are shortlisted for interview, these will take place on Monday 29 June 2026 in person, at our office in Cambridge.
We offer, in addition to a competitive salary, a pension scheme with up to 10% matching company contributions, access to an employee assistance programme, learning & development opportunities, and 27 days paid leave in addition to bank holidays.
We are committed to the employment and career development of people living with a disability. As part of this commitment, we operate a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants living with a disability who in the collective opinion of the selection panel meet the essential criteria for the role for which they have applied. If you wish to be considered for this scheme, please advise recruitment@healthinnovationeast.co.uk by no later than the closing date above.
We really encourage applications from suitably qualified candidates, particularly from diverse backgrounds, so that we truly represent the rich diversity of our region. Please consider filling in an equality and diversity monitoring form. The completion of this form is entirely optional and there are no consequences for your application if you choose not to provide such information. It will not be seen by anyone involved in shortlisting applicants for interview, or anyone involved in the interview itself. The information provided will be kept confidential and will be used for monitoring purposes only.
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