Senior Project Manager

Overview

In this role you will lead significant parts of the Commercial Function’s first-year programme and sustain ongoing activity. You’ll translate an evolving commercial design into delivered capability while navigating ambiguity across NHS England Commercial, DDaT, investment areas, regions, providers and suppliers. You will shape processes, governance, and reporting to support multi-project workstreams and procurement activity. This is a high-impact, cross-functional delivery role that contributes to a national digital productivity programme in the NHS. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams to drive commercial strategy and supplier relationships, delivering tangible improvements in效率.

Responsibilities

• Mobilise elements of the Commercial Function, designing processes, governance forums, reporting routes and ways of working
• Oversee end-to-end lifecycle of multi-project commercial programmes, including planning, resourcing, progress reporting and risk/issue/dependency management
• Develop and align the Programme commercial strategy with NHS England, Government Commercial Function policy, and relevant DDaT, cyber and data standards
• Assess Programme demand and review regional plans with Investment Areas and EPMO to consolidate the investment pipeline and identify risks and opportunities
• Lead or contribute to major procurement activity, including Delivery Partner procurement, route to market development, scoping, timetable management and procurement evaluation
• Establish supplier relationship management activities, including segmentation, market intelligence, price benchmarking and strategic supplier relationships
• Develop and deliver a commercial support offer to Regions and providers, including guidance, templates, contract management frameworks and lessons learned
• Interface with NHS England Commercial, DDaT, the New Hospital Programme and Investment Areas to ensure activity is visible, coordinated and gap-free
• Provide commercial input to Programme business cases and funding decisions across NHS England, DHSC, Cabinet Office and HM Treasury governance
• Manage budgets for allocated programmes, including budgeting, monitoring, forecasting and contributing to resourcing and delivery model decisions
• Produce detailed programme reports for senior NHS England stakeholders and Boards, including DHSC where required

Key requirements

• Significant experience in managing projects to tight timescales and budgets
• Experience in stakeholder management across varied interests and levels of influence
• Experience preparing briefing papers and correspondence for project boards
• Ability to handle highly complex, sensitive information
• Strong analytical skills with option development capability
• Proven ability to build relationships with internal and external partners to achieve strategic objectives
• Masters-level education or equivalent; professional PM qualifications as listed

• Relationship-building with internal and external partners
• Analytical thinking with ability to synthesize complex information
• Communication of complex information clearly
• Programme and project management
• Governance, risk and dependency management
• Budget management and financial forecasting

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