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About the Role

This role is responsible for shaping and delivering high-impact technology and product initiatives within the Office of the Chief Technology & Product Officer (CTPO). The Principal Project Manager will bring clarity, structure, and momentum to complex projects, ensuring effective collaboration and strong governance across a diverse portfolio, including a major ITSM/CMDB transformation programme.

Responsibilities

• Manage complex projects end to end, ensuring successful delivery through planning, reporting, and risk/issue management.
• Build strong, trusted relationships with senior leaders, Service Management, Product, Service Design, and suppliers.
• Provide oversight across the CTPO portfolio, strengthening governance, improving visibility, and supporting decision-making.
• Coordinate programme and governance boards, ensuring clear, timely, and transparent reporting, escalation, and updates.

Requirements

• Experience leading complex projects in large, matrixed environments.
• Ability to build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and executive leaders.
• Strong track record of delivering end-to-end programmes with meaningful impact.
• Confidence in setting up and managing project governance and risk management in complex delivery environments.
• Ability to bring structure, clarity, and calm to fast-moving and evolving portfolios.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate complexity into clear insight.

Skills

• Project Management
• ITSM/CMDB Transformation
• Portfolio Management
• Governance
• Risk Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Communication

Location

• London
• Canary Wharf
• Cambridge
• Leeds

Work Type

• Blended working
• Hybrid working
• Remote working (up to 30 days abroad annually)

Experience Level

• Principal

Education Level

• Project Management certifications are desirable but not essential.

Salary/Compensations

• £70,000

Benefits

• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
• Additional leave for long service
• Option to apply for up to 30 days of remote working abroad annually
• Blended working arrangements
• Flexible working
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave benefits
• Defined contribution pension (Genomics England double-matches up to 10%)
• Life Assurance (3x salary)
• Electric Vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Give As You Earn scheme
• Individual learning budgets
• Support for training and certifications
• Reimbursement for one annual professional subscription
• Employee recognition programme
• Referral scheme
• Subsidised gym membership
• Free Headspace account
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme
• Eye tests
• Flu jabs

About the Company

• Genomics England is a global leader in enabling genomic medicine and research, focused on creating a world where everyone benefits from genomic healthcare.
• Building on the 100,000 Genomes Project, we support the NHS’s world-first national whole genome sequencing service and run the growing National Genomic Research Library, alongside delivering numerous major genomics initiatives.
• Our mission is to provide the evidence and digital systems so that by 2035 genomics could play a role in up to half of all healthcare interactions, whilst securing the UK’s position as the best place to discover, prove and benefit from genomic innovations.
• We are accelerating our impact and working with patients, doctors, scientists, government and industry to improve genomic testing, and help researchers access the health data and technology they need to make new medical discoveries and create more effective, targeted medicines for everybody.
• Behind the Healthcare and Research outcomes, Genomics England delivers through designing, developing and operating complex healthcare software systems.
• We're on the cusp of big changes with the real prospect of genomics becoming the fabric of everyday healthcare through the lifetime – from birth to old age.

Equal Opportunity

• Genomics England is actively committed to providing and supporting an inclusive environment that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion best practice.
• We are proud of our diverse community where everyone can come to work and feel welcomed and treated with respect regardless of any disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, or social background.
• Genomics England’s policies of non-discrimination and equity and will be applied fairly to all people, regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, being pregnant or recently becoming a parent, race, religion or beliefs, sex or sexual orientation, length of service, whether full or part-time or employed under a permanent or a fixed-term contract or any other relevant factor.
• Genomics England does not tolerate any form of discrimination, harassment, victimisation or bullying at work.
• We aim to remove barriers in our recruitment processes and to be flexible with our interview processes. Should you require any adjustments that may help you to fully participate in the recruitment process, we encourage you to discuss this with us.