Senior Programme Manager

You will play the lead role in shaping and delivering long term transformation across Donor and Transplantation Services (DTS) through culture, process, technology and data change.

We’re Anthony Nolan. By uniting people and science, we’re growing our world-leading stem cell register, so everyone who needs a transplant, can find their lifesaving match. We’re currently giving four people a day another chance to live.

Driven by patients, backed by stem cell donors, and powered by science, we won’t stop until we’ve unlocked the cures, treatments and transplants that will transform the future for more patients. And together, we can reach the remarkable day where every patient who needs us can not only survive, but thrive.

If you're inspired by this vision, and feel you have the skills and experience we need to help achieve it, we'd love you to join our lifesaving team.

We are looking for a Senior Programme Manager to join our Technology team.

Title: Senior Programme Manager

Salary: Circa. £100,000 per annum dependent on experience

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 35 per week (standard Anthony Nolan working hours)

Location: Hybrid, with a minimum of 2 days per week on-site at head office in Hampstead, London

Job Summary

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.

Responsibilities:

• 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.

Requirements:

• 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’s in it for you?

• A competitive salary

• 27 days annual leave, pension scheme, childcare vouchers, access to counselling via a 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme

• A stimulating work environment full of opportunities to learn and develop

• Life Assurance of four times annual salary

• Travel season ticket loan, Cycle to work Scheme

• And more! (further details on our

  Life at Anthony Nolanpage)

Please check out the full job description here, and you can read more about what to expect on the

Our recruitment processpage.

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. 

Release your remarkable, join our team and give someone another chance to live.

Anthony Nolan is a Disability Confident Committed and Living Wage accredited employer. 

All applicants must be able to demonstrate the right to work in the UK.

• Department
• Technology
• Role
• Programme Management
• Locations
• Head Office
• Remote status
• Hybrid
• Contract hours
• Full time
• Employment type
• Permanent
• Closing date
• 23 February, 2026

Head Office

So how can you tell if you're Anthony Nolan too?

•  You’re passionateand dedicated to your work
• You’re innovativeand looking for a challenge
• You want to improveand learn every day
• You’re accountablefor your work and take pride in what you do
• You’re people and patient focused– you want to make a difference to people’s lives

These five values are what drive and motivate us across all of our divisions. From lab research and tissue typing, to finance, HR and legal, from patient support and logistics, to fundraising, marketing and communications… everyone has a critical role to play in our lifesaving work.

We’re incredibly proud of the people who work for us – and we’re always on the lookout for more passionate and talented individuals. If you like the idea of joining a team that gives four people the chance of life every day, check out our job listings below.

About Anthony Nolan

Anthony Nolan is the charity that makes lifesaving connections between patients in need and incredible strangers ready to donate their stem cells. Find out more about what we do here. 

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