Senior Programme Delivery Manager (SDE Technical Transformation Programmes)
Health Innovation East has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Programme Delivery Manager to join our rapidly expanding Health Informatics team.
Salary: £51,646 – £58,202 depending on experience
Hours of work: 37.5hrs/week
Deadline: Wednesday 30 September
Date of interview: Stage one – 12 October (via Teams), stage two – 23 October (in-person)
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 role is part of the Programme Delivery function within the Health Informatics Team. A significant proportion of this role will focus on delivery of nationally funded technical transformation programmes within the Eastern England Secure Data Environment (EE-SDE), including the Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Zenith/AIRR programmes. The postholder will coordinate delivery across NHS organisations, universities, Secure Data Environments, information governance specialists and technical teams to develop reusable infrastructure, governance and operating models that can be adopted across the wider UK health data research ecosystem.
The post holder will take responsibility for managing project plans with input from subject matter experts and ensuring their successful delivery throughout the project life cycle. The postholder will drive working groups and meetings to facilitate identification of risks, interdependencies, and critical paths, and develop relevant mitigation plans alongside the PMO Lead, escalating where necessary to the Head of Health Informatics Programme Delivery and Technical Transformation Project Leads.
The successful candidate will work to build strong and meaningful relationships with key external stakeholders and have the ability to recognise and work to address the articulated and unarticulated needs of stakeholders, taking a holistic perspective when approaching challenges and decision-making. You will collaborate with internal teams including IT, DevOps, data governance, and programme delivery leads to maintain project momentum and to ensure our deliverables are successfully met on time.
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 Wednesday 30 September 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.
The interview will be conducted in two stages. The first stage will be a short screening call via Microsoft Teams with the recruiting manager, scheduled to take place on Monday 12 October 2026. Candidates who are successful at this stage will be invited to attend a second-stage, in-person interview at our office in Cambridge on Friday 23 October 2026.
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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