Senior Strategy Manager

1 week ago


Manchester, United Kingdom Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity to join Manchester Foundation Trust in this key role within Group Informatics responsible for the assurance and delivery of the Informatics Portfolio made up of change initiatives ranging from service improvements to large scale digital programmes.

The Head of Group Informatics Portfolio & Strategy will lead the the Portfolio Office in the organisation, prioritisation, scheduling and assurance of the full range of digital initiatives.

The Portfolio office will assure, report and liaise across Group Informatics and work in partnership with the Digital Delivery Team and Informatics leads in the strategically led delivery of digital change.

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The Head of Group Informatics Portfolio and Strategy reports to and supports the Director for Digital Strategy, Portfolio, & Governance, in the effective delivery of their strategic vision and is responsible for shaping and leading the Group Informatics Portfolio Office (PO) function.

They lead and champion a robust and appropriate portfolio management office discipline across Group Informatics to ensure that the constituent programmes and projects, in parallel to operational BAU activities, which form the overall portfolio of work, delivers its contribution to Group Informatics, and the wider MFT strategic objectives.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of 2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts.

We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.


Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.


We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Diversity MattersMFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve.

All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post.

If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at evidence of continued professional development relating to programme or project management and PMO such as P3O or ISEB PPSO
Masters level degree or equivalent within a Business or IT specific subject
Substantial experience in the direct management of multiple Programme-level PMO functions across a complex change delivery environments, including a complex NHS organisation
Substantial demonstrable experience in designing and delivering best practice PMO functions and services across complex organisations including NHS experience
Direct experience and application of project and programme management methodologies within complex organisations, including NHS
Significant experience and a proven ability to deal effectively with senior stakeholders across internal and external organisational functions
Experience of leading Portfolio-level PMO functions, ideally in an NHS context
Wide exposure to change delivery approaches incorporating range of delivery methodologies such as waterfall, agile, ASAP
Understands scope of influence and has engaged senior management to adopt new ways of working
Evidence of the design and analysis of change performance metrics to monitor and control performance

Ability to provide and receive highly complex, highly sensitive or highly contentious information, where developed persuasive, motivational, negotiation, training, empathic or re-assurance skills are required.

Ability to formulate long-term, strategic plans which involve uncertainty and which may impact across the whole organisation
Evidence of reinvigorating an existing PMO team structure or the turnaround of a failing service

Ability to undertake shift working including out-of-hours, weekend and Public Holidays

Ability to travel

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

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