Programme and Portfolio Manager

Job summary

Do you want to embark on a transformative journey with NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) as a Programme and Portfolio Manager. In this permanent role, you will be at the forefront of organ donation and transplantation digital services, saving and improving lives. Join our dedicated team and contribute to the strategic planning, delivery, and benefits realisation of a large-scale digital initiative that will have a profound impact on patients lives. Collaborating closely with the Accountable Executive, Programme Board and Delivery Teams you will ensure successful delivery of digital projects and benefits.

We are looking for someone with a proven track record of managing large-scale digital programmes and projects, from business case through to delivery, preferably in healthcare or a related field.

You will have an innovative, problem-solving approach, with strong stakeholder management skills and experience in implementing risk management and governance processes. By being part of a passionate, enthusiastic, supportive, and high performing team, you will build positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

You will contribute to life-saving work, where every day promises diversity and excitement managing critical programmes aimed at enhancing organ donation and transplantation services.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will be responsible for delivery of large-scale change programmes within NHSBT. You will join an enthusiastic team with ambitious plans to deliver an exciting transformation programme across the organisation.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Engaging stakeholders within and across directorates to gather requirements and provide effective tools to plan the portfolio across the directorate.
• Defining and implementing long term strategic plans which need to align with the wider NSHBT strategies and context which impact across the organisation
• Working closely with other programme and portfolio managers / leads in the directorate and across the organisation to ensure alignment on assumptions of cross-directorate resourcing and interdependencies for delivery within agreed time, cost and quality standards, and within risk limits.
• Managing the interfaces and communications with the senior stakeholders, including the Senior Responsible Officer (SRO), the Business Change Lead, the Business Leads and Operational Leads. Preparing and maintaining portfolio and programme plans and publishing these to the SRO and project, programme and portfolio boards as required, responding to challenge and questions about progress on delivery.
• The line management of their team of project management staff, including setting and monitoring objectives and personal development plans ensuring that they are highly motivated,

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need.

Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever.

You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.