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Senior Programme Manager

NHS
London, GBR
Full-time
Onsite
Discovered 2 weeks ago
Programme managementCommercial strategyProgramme mobilisationGovernance and reportingRisk, issue and dependency managementProcurement and route-to-market development

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Role overview

Senior delivery role in the NHS England Commercial Function, reporting to the Assistant Director of Commercial.

Leads significant elements of the function's first-year programme and ongoing activity, turning an evolving commercial design into delivered capability.

Works across NHS England Commercial, DDaT, Investment Areas, Regions, providers and the supplier market.

Programme delivery and strategy

  • Mobilise agreed elements of the Commercial Function by designing and embedding processes, governance forums, reporting routes and ways of working.
  • Manage programmes containing multiple projects and workstreams through planning, resourcing, progress reporting, and risk, issue and dependency management.
  • Serve as an escalation point for project managers.
  • Support the Programme commercial strategy and alignment with NHS England strategy, Government Commercial Function policy and relevant DDaT, cyber and data standards.

Demand, procurement and suppliers

  • Assess Programme demand and review regional plans with Investment Areas and the EPMO to consolidate the investment pipeline.
  • Identify commercial risks, dependencies and opportunities to aggregate demand.
  • Lead or contribute to major procurement, including Delivery Partner procurement, from route-to-market and requirements through process management, evaluation, award and mobilisation.
  • Establish supplier segmentation, market intelligence, price benchmarking and strategic supplier relationships to strengthen resilience and market readiness.

Programme background

The Frontline Productivity Programme aims to raise digital productivity across the NHS frontline and translate technology and IT infrastructure investment into improvements in productivity, patient safety and care quality.

The programme sets national strategy and guardrails, allocates funding through NHS England Regions, and provides standards, guidance and specialist expertise.

Funding confirmed for 2026/27 to 2029/30 covers frontline infrastructure and cyber, Connecting Care Records, Electronic Patient Records, productivity technologies and change management.

Across the spending review period, the programme represents £0.8bn capital and £1.4bn revenue, alongside provider investment of £0.3bn capital and £0.6bn revenue.

Workplace and office attendance

  • Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend an average of at least 40% of their time working in NHS England offices.

Employment and onboarding notes

  • NHS employees who are successful at interview may have an Inter Authority Transfer initiated through the Electronic Staff Record and may opt out.
  • Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available.

Requirements

  • Experience as a programme manager, with commercial credibility and experience delivering complex programmes of work.
  • Ability to operate effectively with ambiguity while a function and its ways of working are being defined.
  • Ability to work across NHS England Commercial, DDaT, Investment Areas, Regions, providers and the supplier market.

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