Strategy Lead, Wellcome
£79.9k
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Global charitable foundation for science research
Job no longer available
Global charitable foundation for science research
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
£79.9k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
Wellcome's mission is to support science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Candidates will ideally have experience in working for charitable foundations, health research funders or research organisations in a Strategy Lead or equivalent role
- Experience in working in partnership with Senior Leadership teams and Executive Leaderships teams is also desirable
- Experience of managing a diverse team, who work on a broad range of programmes at a given time
- Substantial experience of a broad range of strategy work (such as research and analysis, idea development, scoping, options appraisals, decision making framework development, outcome definition and iteration, strategic problem solving and issue resolution and creative facilitation) in a large organisation to create significant value ; Substantial experience of working within or with scientific research organisations, with knowledge of a range of biomedical research fields
- Experienced in developing strategy within a complex organisation, including working with internal and external stakeholders. Experience of working closely with and presenting to senior officials in a large organisation to set and track the impact of organisational strategy and delivering corporate strategic initiatives, employing appropriate project and/or programme methodologies. Experience of managing or assuring delivery of corporate priority programmes
- Has experience a team through both line and matrix management. Proven ability to build, manage, lead and motivate a diverse team, ensuring that people with the right range of skills and experience are recruited and retained, and that their skills and professional capabilities are maximised within an inclusive work culture
- Substantial experience of bringing simplicity to complexity, setting standards and supporting flexible strategy development for major, interdisciplinary programmes in complex systems; Experience identifying, successfully rolling out and ensuring effective use of impact measurement systems to inform decision making. Experience of delivering work priorities at pace, where no direct power is held, and success is only possible by building the active support of others
- Commercially astute and comfortable working with significant organisational risk and ambiguity. Rapid information gathering, assessment and decision making, while working across multiple stakeholders in senior leadership and executive roles, including at Board level
What the job involves
- Work closely stakeholders with senior and executive leadership roles to continue the work on Wellcome’s approach to developing strategies that look to the future and the communities it is trying to impact. Create stimulating, inclusive approaches and discussion forums for Wellcome’s teams, the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and Board of Governors to gather, share and learn from these external insights. Unlock Wellcome’s potential by providing advice, challenge, independent support and thinking. Partner with Wellcome teams to identify, examine and bring resolution to cross cutting topics that will enable Wellcome to have a greater impact e.g. developing new and evolving organisational positions and processes
- Lead strategy development processes across Wellcome where required (e.g. the team has recently been working with the challenge areas to develop their medium term strategic goals)). Remain up to date with strategic approaches and priorities for both international and organisations across UK
- Work in partnership with interdisciplinary teams (in particular Wellcome’s data insights team) across Wellcome to bring in expert research and analysis and support teams in the delivery of their strategies, ensuring they push the boundaries of what they are trying to achieve, use Wellcome’s differentiators and contribute to Wellcome’s overall unified strategy
- Identify and ensure consistent and proportional application of appropriate standards, technical methodologies and/or frameworks are used to define and deliver outcome focussed strategies for programmes of varying nature, scale and complexity – ensure those frameworks provide a structure that supports strategies that are outcome focussed, evidence based and their impact can be measured whilst being simple and flexible enough for clear communication and real world decision making
- Bring diverse perspectives in. Engage with diverse thought leaders and apply an inclusive lens to scan the external horizon for major global trends, opportunities and alternative future scenarios that cut across Wellcome’s strategic priorities, geographic locations, areas of work and society itself which may shape its ways of working, long-term impact and direction. Incubate new ideas and strategic initiatives as needed, ensuring they are ‘mainstreamed’ in the appropriate part of Wellcome at the right time in the development process
- Contribute to a diverse and inclusive culture across the organisation, collaborating across departments
Application process
- Monday, 4 September 2023
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The Wellcome Trust was originally founded in 1936 to fund medical research and has since grown into the UK’s largest private scientific research fund, and one of the wealthiest charities in the world. Disbursing over £1 billion in funds a year, it has provided funding to numerous medical research projects in its focus areas of mental health, climate & health and infectious diseases. These include the Cancer Genome Project and the Ebola Emergency Initiative.
Wellcome's 2022 decision to divest itself of its shares in fossil fuels has also relieved it of a persistent source of controversy, as this was potentially hindering the credibility of its climate change research. Wellcome has since partnered with the World Economic Forum to collect data on how climate change is affecting health worldwide.
The company is also moving to adjust to a more global role. The majority of its funding has historically been allocated to UK firms, but as climate change and infectious diseases know no borders, neither does research into solutions to these problems. ln 2019 it established an office in Berlin to strengthen its scientific links in the EU and to allow it to more easily fund important research outside of the UK.
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Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Holiday – 25 days’ holiday a year plus bank holidays (and we usually close between Christmas and New Year)
- Pension (defined contribution plan) – you contribute at least 3% and we pay in 15% of your salary
- Income protection – to maintain your income if you have a prolonged illness or disability
- Life assurance – four to six times your basic salary if you’re a member of our pension plan
- Interest-free travel season ticket loan
- Private medical insurance – we pay the cover, you pay the tax (and you can pay to add dependants)
- Gym and fitness classes – free membership to on-site gym and subsidised fitness classes and treatments
- Employee assistance programme – free, independent 24/7 help and advice for work-related issues as well as problems affecting your home life
- Mental health support – our network of mental health first aiders can be a first point of contact, or help while you're receiving professional help
- Health assessments (free and voluntary) – after you’ve been here for one year, then every two years after that
- Occupational health – annual eye tests and flu jabs, as well as job-related vaccinations
- Flexible working – we make every effort to support flexible working, including flexible working hours and remote working (we respect people's different working preferences and the need for a healthy work-life balance)
- Flexi-leave scheme – you can buy or sell up to five days of your holiday entitlement a year
- Staff social club – a range of sports teams and fun events throughout the year
- Volunteering – we give you up to four days' paid leave a year to contribute to our local community
- Give As You Earn – allows you to make tax-free donations to the charities you care about
- Cycle-to-work scheme – we offer at least 25% discount on bikes and cycling equipment and we have secure cycle storage, lockers and showers
- Subsidised restaurant and cafe
- Wellcome Collection discounts – 20% off food, drink and gifts from our cafe, restaurant and shop
- Discounts through Perkbox – shopping, restaurants, cinema tickets, phone insurance and gift cards
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Jeremy Farrar
(Director)Has been Director of the Wellcome Trust since 2013. Before that was Director of Oxford Clinical Research Unit, working on research and clinical trials for diseases in Vietnam.
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