Project Manager – Transformation – Data Intelligence

Job Summary

NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is a unique organisation that works to save and improve lives every day.

We are looking for project manager who is passionate about data to join the NHSBT Data Intelligence Programme. This sits at the heart of NHSBT’s modernisation and transformation agenda, as meaningful data and analysis are key to unlocking insights to drive improvements in donor and patient care through innovative, efficient, and high-quality services. The programme is a central enabler of the organisation’s ambitions to ensure blood stock resilience, improve clinical quality, and deliver more efficient, safe, inclusive, and resilient operations — while providing a faster, timelier, and reliable source of intelligence for our managers.

Everything we do is ultimately about improving care and outcomes for donors and patients and we are bringing together professionals with the vision, influence, and expertise to unlock the full potential of data in NHSBT. So, if you share our passion and want your work to make a meaningful, measurable impact on healthcare across the UK, we’d love to hear from you.

As a Project Manager you will manage the Data Intelligence Transformation project, ensuring timely completion and alignment with business strategies, budgets, and operational needs. Your responsibilities will include:

• Overseeing the project under the Programme and Portfolio Manager's guidance, maintaining high professional standards and compliance with all relevant regulations.
• Deputising for the Programme and Portfolio Manager as needed, supporting project and programme assurance across the organisation.
• Contributing to Transformation portfolio planning, reporting, and the development of NHS Blood & Transplant Portfolio, Programme, and Project Management tools and methods.
• Maintaining project documentation, such as board update packs, project plans, runbooks, and RAIDD logs.

You may be required to travel and spend time away from base, which will involve working irregular hours and overnight stays when required, with prior notice.

• Significant project management experience, including managing risk and change, production of robust business cases, managing and monitoring budgets
• Experience of using project management tools and software to support scoping, planning, implementing, and monitoring progress. Experience of managing resources, including those not under direct line management control
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office tools, in particular Microsoft Project,Powerpoint, Word, Excel and Visio
• Knowledge of how to effectively close projects and implement lessons learnt throughout the project lifecycle

• Evidence of training in project management methods (e.g. PRINCE II practitioner, agile, waterfall)
• Masters’ degree in relevant subject or demonstrable knowledge and experience to Masters’ level
• Demonstrates commitment to own continued professional development (CPD)

Please view the attached recruitment profile which is a summary of the detailed Job Description and Person Specification for the full personal attributes we require for the role. You will need to demonstrate these throughout the recruitment process.

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you’ll 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.

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