Senior Programme Delivery Manager

Health Innovation East has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Programme Delivery Manager  to join our rapidly expanding Health Informatics team.

Salary: £49,645 – £56,796

Hours of work: 37.5hrs/week (full time)

Deadline: 11:59pm Sunday 31 May 2026

Date of interview: two stage process – Thursday 18 June and Friday 26 June 2026

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. The post holder will take responsibility for project managing multiple parallel projects within our portfolio, devising robust 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.

This is a chance to join a fast growing, dynamic company. We believe that great ideas only make a difference for our health when they are put into practice. Whether we’re working with global companies, pioneering start-ups, universities or health providers we help the best innovations in health and care reach the people, places and problems where they deliver most benefit. As the region’s experts in health innovation implementation our team includes healthcare professionals, specialist technologists and commercial advisors; our collective skill set is at the forefront of the advances being made across health and care.

This post is a hybrid role with 2–3 days per month required in our Cambridge office (although you can choose to work in the office more frequently if preferred) and Adhoc attendance at additional in-person meetings both within the Eastern region and nationally. Flexible working hours compatible with the role can be considered (including the possibility of working part time).

How to apply

To apply please submit your CV and a covering letter by 11:59pm on Sunday 31 May 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

Interview Process:

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 Thursday 18 June 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 26 June.

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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