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About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Project Manager to coordinate and manage early-stage initiatives within the Scientific Research and Innovation space. This role will provide structure, governance, and delivery leadership to guide initiatives from concept through recommendation, testing, or production readiness, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and generating insights for future decisions.
Responsibilities
- Lead the delivery and coordination of early-stage pilots & PoCs across the Research and Innovation portfolio.
- Establish clear project structure and governance, including purpose, scope, expected value, success measures, and risk management.
- Collaborate with Research Teams, Product Managers, Platform Managers, and Technology teams to define delivery approaches.
- Support teams in navigating and complying with relevant governance processes, including AI governance and safety reviews.
- Produce and embed effective reporting and communication methods to track progress, outcomes, risks, and decisions.
- Support the development of recommendations, investment cases, and business cases.
- Identify and manage dependencies, risks, and opportunities across multiple pilots and workstreams.
- Manage the transition and handover of successful pilots to relevant teams.
Requirements
- Significant project management experience leading technology, digital, data, or AI-related initiatives.
- Experience working in environments involving emerging technologies, innovation programmes, or experimentation initiatives.
- Experience working with agile delivery approaches and cross-functional teams.
- Demonstrable experience of planning, structuring, and delivering work in ambiguous or evolving environments.
- Strong understanding of project governance, risk management, business case development, and investment decision-making.
- Proven ability to manage budgets, forecasting, and resource planning.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
- Confident facilitator, able to drive clarity, alignment, and decision-making.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Curious and proactive, able to identify risks, gaps, and opportunities.
- Action-oriented, adaptable, and comfortable operating in evolving or ambiguous environments.
- Internal candidates should ideally have completed their 6-month ‘getting started’ period.
- Internal candidates must advise their current line manager of their application.
- Internal candidates applying for a secondment must have discussed their intention to apply and gained approval with their line manager.
- Internal candidates must have been in their substantive role for at least 6 months if previously on secondment.
Skills
- Project Management
- Technology Delivery
- Agile Methodologies
- Stakeholder Management
- Communication
- Facilitation
- Analytical Skills
- Problem-Solving
- Risk Management
- Budget Management
- Forecasting
- Resource Planning
Location
- Office-based with high flexibility
Work Type
- Fixed Term Contract
- Full-Time
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- £54,000-£64,000
Benefits
- Generous benefits package
- Wide range of career and personal development opportunities
- High-quality tools
- Policies and processes to improve work-life balance
About the Company
- We’re the world’s leading cancer charity, dedicated to saving and improving lives with our research.
- We work to reduce the impact of cancer on people’s day-to-day lives through our research, influence and information.
- We are beating cancer – step by step, day by day.
- Our work means that people with cancer live better lives through earlier diagnosis and kinder, more effective treatments.
- Find a purposeful career that will empower you to grow and collaborate with like-minded experts.
Equal Opportunity
- Our vision is to create a charity where everyone feels like they belong, benefits from and participates in, the work we do.
- We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, in particular those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under-represented.
- We want to see every candidate performing at their best throughout the job application process, interview process and whilst at work.
- We therefore ask you to inform us of any concerns you have or any adjustments you might need to enable this to happen.
- Unfortunately, we are unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18, so that we can protect young people from health & safety and safeguarding risks.