We’re at the start of a brand new programme focused on Feedback, Engagement and Recontact and we need a talented Programme Manager to support teams who are operating in startup mode to explore and make sense of this new opportunity and help us take our first steps.
You’ll be an adept agile practitioner with excellent facilitation and coaching skills who can respond quickly to change, thriving in, and helping to make sense of ambiguity. You will use your experience to remove obstacles, manage risks, communicate progress and ensure excellence. Although not essential, we’re particularly interested in hearing from you if you have experience working with distributed teams.
At Our Future Health, our mission is to transform the prevention, detection and treatment of conditions such as dementia, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and stroke. We’re looking for people to join us on our journey. If you’re looking for a new challenge where you can contribute to helping future generations live in good health for longer, then we’re keen to speak with you.
What You’ll Do:
- Programme Management Expertise: Help our teams who are currently in startup mode with discovery work across our feedback and recontact propositions.
- In-Team Leadership: Roll up your sleeves and guide our team through Lean and Agile practices. We’re all about collaboration!
- Operational Excellence: Establish efficient ways of working, unblock obstacles, and liaise with other Delivery Managers to untangle interdependencies.
- Progress Reporting: Keep everyone in the loop by providing regular updates on project milestones and delivery.
- OKR Champion: Help us stay on track by updating and aligning our Objectives and Key Results.
- Team Enablement: Be the facilitator who empowers our busy team, freeing them from administrative burdens.
Who you are:
- Delivery Dynamo: Your strong delivery background is essential. You thrive in discovery stages with multi-disciplinary team and understand the business impact beyond the software development lifecycle.
- Outcome-Oriented: Conversations and workshops are your playground. You focus on deliverables that solve real user and business problems.
- Collaboration Catalyst: You build relationships easily and work closely with cross-functional teams, including Product, Design, Engineering and external vendors.
- Streamlined Delivery: You’re comfortable leading diverse technology and digital projects, ensuring smooth execution across competing priorities.
- Best Practices Champion: You’re an enabler, adept at standardizing ways of working and driving best practice.
- Strong Communicator: You are a strong communicator who can build and maintain momentum in project teams. You will have solid organisational skills with the ability to lead delivery of multiple initiatives while managing multiple dependencies.
Requirements
Your background will see you having experience in some of the following:
- Proven experience with discovery and early stage teams (digital products/services).
- Proven ability to organise and structure a newly formed team’s delivery
- Demonstrable delivery success (digital product/service delivery).
- Proficiency in tools like Confluence, JIRA, Miro, and MS Sharepoint.
- Vendor management expertise.
- Strong stakeholder relationship skills.
- Data-driven insights and reporting.
- Track record of managing multiple projects.
- Agile product development familiarity.
- Healthtech, research or biotechnology experience (desired but not essential).
Experience as a Delivery Manager or Project Manager with either; agency, startup, Health-tech, consumer product or significant digital service / product experience would set you up for success in this role.
Benefits
- £55,000 - £65,000 per annum basic salary.
- Generous company pension package with employer contributions of up to 12%.
- 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays.)
- Individual development budget.
- Flexible and remote working arrangements and a lovely new office in Holborn, Central London.
Join us - let’s prevent disease together.
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Last updated on Jul 16, 2024