Senior Programme Manager, Anthony Nolan
£100k
Office located in Hampstead, London
Blood cancer charity
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Blood cancer charity
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
£100k
Office located in Hampstead, London
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make lifesaving connections between patients in need and incredible strangers ready to donate their stem cells.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience leading large scale, multi year transformation programmes, with a strong track record of delivering complex, outcomes focused change in operationally critical environments
- Excellent programme governance, financial control, and risk and dependency management skills, with the ability to establish and run robust assurance frameworks
- Strong digital, data and technology fluency—you can confidently engage with technical, data and platform concepts, translate between technical and non technical stakeholders, and ensure solutions are feasible, aligned and grounded in real operational need
- Deep experience of hybrid agile delivery at programme scale, including coaching teams and embedding effective delivery practices across multiple workstreams
- Enterprise level change leadership capability, with experience shaping culture, driving behavioural change, and leading people through ambiguity at pace
- Outstanding stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence, build credibility, and act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders across clinical, operational, technology and corporate teams
- Demonstrable leadership of multi layered teams, including line management, matrix management and third party partner leadership, with an inclusive, collaborative and empowering leadership style
- Experience managing and optimising third party partnerships, including software development partners, managed services providers and strategic suppliers
- A continuous improvement mindset, using data, feedback and lessons learned to refine approach, improve ways of working and enhance delivery outcomes
What the job involves
- Hours: 35 per week (standard Anthony Nolan working hours)
- We are looking for a Senior Programme Manager to join our Technology team
- You will lead the DTS For the Future programme, a multi year initiative designed to fundamentally transform how DTS teams operate and engage with customers and donors
- You will own the overall programme plan, outcomes and delivery roadmap, coordinating multiple interdependent workstreams to ensure benefits are delivered on time and within budget
- You will establish programme governance, lead benefits realisation, collaborate with senior stakeholders and provide strong, visible leadership across teams and partners
- Review the initial scoping outputs and shape a clear, actionable delivery approach, including deeper discovery where required
- Establish and run effective programme governance, ensuring transparent reporting of progress, risk, scope, budget, benefits and confidence to executive sponsors and boards
- Build and oversee the programme’s benefits realisation approach, ensuring benefits are tracked, owned and delivered across all workstreams
- Collaborate with senior stakeholders across clinical, operational, technology and support teams to maintain alignment and shared ownership
- Lead and support the workstream delivery teams, ensuring dependencies are managed and obstacles removed to maintain delivery momentum
- Drive delivery quality and pace through a hybrid agile approach, coaching teams to adopt and embed effective delivery practices
- Manage third party delivery partners, ensuring they contribute effectively to programme outcomes
- Ensure that robust change management activity is in place to enable teams to adopt new ways of working and realise programme benefits
- Provide strong, visible leadership to internal teams, delivery partners and stakeholders, modelling the behaviours needed for successful transformation
- Coordinate interdependent workstreams and activities to ensure delivery remains on track and aligned to the overall roadmap
Application process
- Closing date
- Please note: We encourage you to apply as soon as possible – this advert may close early if we receive a high volume of strong applications
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Founded in 1974 to find bone marrow donors for people suffering with blood cancer, Anthony Nolan is today one of Britain's largest recruiters of stem cell donors, along with DKMS, the Welsh Blood Service and NHS Blood and Transplant. As only one in four people with blood cancer will find a compatible donor in their family, Anthony Nolan's work saves over 1,000 lives a year worldwide.
Aside from recruiting donors, Anthony Nolan conducts research through the Anthony Nolan Research Institute, with its findings reducing post-transplant complications and increasing quality of life for patients. It also maintains the UK's first dedicated cord blood bank which allows new mothers to donate their umbilical cords for research.
Despite significant advances in blood cancer tratment since Anthony Nolan's founding, there's still a critical shortage of donors, sworsened by a sharp declinesiunce 2019. To combat this, the charity is actively raising awareness of this issue and is also set to open a new stem cell donation centre at Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham to further help address the gap.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Family friendly policies: Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and dependents leave support our colleagues to put their family and loved ones first and maintain a healthy work/life balance
- Flexible working: Many of our colleagues work in a hybrid way, with some time spent working on site and some from home, and we also offer flexible working arrangements where possible
- Learning & development: With a dedicated online learning platform, workshops open to all and run by both colleagues and external providers, a management development plan, and much more, we're fostering a culture of constant learning
- Holidays: 27 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays (and the ability to swap up to two bank holiday days per year!
- Pension: The Anthony Nolan Pension Scheme is open to all eligible employees, with the option for enhanced contributions after 6 months' service
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP): Mental health support through a 24/7 confidential helpline, structured counselling sessions and a wellbeing portal
- Medicash: Claim back medical costs such as dental bills, new glasses and physiotherapy
- Cycle & Green Car Scheme: Order a bike or lease a car through salary sacrifice and save on National Insurance and income tax
- Discounts, Cashback & GymFlex: 1000s of discounts and cashback deals on retailers and consumer orgs, as well as discounted gym memberships by salary sacrifice
- Travel Insurance & Loan: Colleagues and their families are covered by our Group Travel Insurance, and you can purchase a travel card to pay off monthly
- Life Assurance: All colleagues are covered at 4x their annual salaries, so you can be sure that your family will be supported
- Rental Deposit Advance: Apply for an interest-free advance to help you cover the cost of a rental deposit, and pay it off over 12 months
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Henny Braund MBE
(CEO)They are a trustee of The Mix Charity, WMDA and the Association of Medical Research Charities. Prior to joining Anthony Nolan in 2009, henny was a Resources Director for Shelter UK.
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