Job Title: Technical Project manager, Operational Delivery
Location: London
Job Type: Permanent role, hybrid working with 3 days in the office
Please note: we are accepting applications until May 22nd. The advert may close earlier if we receive a high volume of relevant applications.
Agencies: We will only work with recruitment partners on our preferred supplier list and will not engage with speculative CVs submitted.
Are you passionate about making life science life changing and delivering impact for patients? We want to hear from you.
About the role:
This new role of Technical Project Manager, Operational Delivery will sit within our growing Strategy, Planning and Performance team.
This role exists to create the conditions for successful delivery: enabling teams to collaborate effectively, responding constructively to change, and ensuring that technology solutions are deployed safely, efficiently, and with measurable business value.
The Technical Project Manager will lead the end-to-end delivery of complex initiatives, ensuring that solutions are delivered iteratively, efficiently and in alignment with business and technical objectives.
About you:
Responsibilities include:
Project Leadership and Delivery:
- Lead end-to-end delivery of complex technical projects, ensuring outcomes are delivered to agreed scope, timelines, and quality standards.
- Develop and maintain delivery plans, RAID logs, dependencies, and resource forecasts across multiple workstreams
- Coordinate cross-functional engineering, data, and product teams to ensure smooth execution and alignment.
- Ensure project teams follow appropriate delivery methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid) based on project needs.
- Represent the Strategic Planning & Performance function in cross organisational meetings and governance boards when required.
- Act as the main interface between delivery teams, business owners, suppliers, and technical specialists on behalf of the function.
- Identify opportunities to streamline tools, templates, processes, and governance within the PMO, ensuring they are effective, scalable, and user friendly.
- Build strong, trusted relationships with stakeholders at all levels, ensuring clarity, alignment, and timely decision making.
Agile Ways of Working:
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies (Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Reviews, Retrospectives) and support teams in applying Agile practices effectively.
- Maintain a clear, prioritised backlog with business and product owners and SMEs, ensuring work is well-defined and ready for delivery.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, using metrics and team feedback to optimise flow and performance.
Scrum Master-Style Team Enablement:
- Identify and remove impediments, escalating where necessary to unblock team progress.
- Coach team members and stakeholders in Agile behaviours, collaboration, and self-organisation.
- Work as part of a Project Management team to protect teams from external disruption and maintain focus on committed sprint objectives.
Stakeholder Engagement & Communication
- Maintain clear, proactive communication with stakeholder, including status reporting, risk updates, and decision requests.
- Manage expectations, facilitate governance forums, and ensure stakeholders remained aligned with project delivery.
- Coordinate with vendors or implementation partners to ensure integrated, coherent delivery.
Essential experience required:
- Agile Delivery & Frameworks: Understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Lean) and experience in applying them in real delivery environments. Including facilitation across Agile ceremonies, backlog refinement, and iterative planning.
- Technical Delivery: Solid grasp of modern technology delivery (e.g., cloud services, APIs, integration patterns etc)
- Project & Delivery Management: Expertise in planning, monitoring, and controlling delivery across scope, risks, dependencies, and timelines. With a strong grounding in both Agile and traditional project management techniques and familiarity with hybrid delivery environments.
- Stakeholder & Communication Skills: Ability to manage senior stakeholders, run effective governance forums, and support decision-making.
- Problem Solving & Continuous Improvement: Mindset oriented towards experimentation, adaptation, an incremental enhancement
Desirable:
- Previous experience gained in a Life Sciences or Healthcare setting would be beneficial
Education:
- Professional certification in project or programme management (e.g., PRINCE2, MSP, PMP)
- Professional certification in Agile Delivery or Methodologies (e.g., CSM, PSM, APMG, SAFe)
Skills & abilities:
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to align operational activities with broader organisational goals and priorities.
- Problem Solving: Skilled at identifying root causes of underperformance and implementing effective solutions.
- Influencing and Communication: Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels.
- Collaboration: Adept at working across functions and building consensus in complex environments.
- Adaptability: Comfortable navigating ambiguity and change, with a proactive approach to continuous improvement.
- Agile Thinking: Embraces the iterative mindset behind Agile Delivery and promotes collaboration and transparency.
- Results Orientation: Focused on delivering measurable outcomes and driving value through operational efficiency.
About us:
LifeArc is a not-for-profit life science organisation, leading the way for change in rare diseases in the UK and supporting promising initiatives in global health. We seek out research in areas of unmet need that has great potential, providing support to help it become breakthroughs that change lives.
What we can offer you:
Focused on finding life changing solutions for underserved patients, our people thrive in an inclusive, and supportive environment that prioritises their health and wellbeing. Our multidisciplinary approach guarantees our people growth opportunities, while our culture of innovation and collaboration drives the impact we make delivering on our purpose of ‘putting patients at the centre of everything we do’.
LifeArc is committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible and developing a culture that values differences. As a Disability Confident Employer, we guarantee an interview to candidates with a disability or long-term health condition who meet the essential criteria for the role.
Please note that in certain situations, such as high volumes of applications, it may not be practical to interview all eligible candidates. In these cases, we may need to select those who best meet the essential criteria. (At LifeArc, the Disability Confident Scheme’s ‘minimum criteria’ is referred to as ‘essential criteria’)
Salary will be determined by qualifications and experience along with other exceptional benefits. Because we understand everyone has different requirements, our flexible benefits allow you to choose those which are important to you. Our pension scheme offers employer contributions of up to 12%, private health insurance, and annual leave of 31 days PLUS bank holidays.
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people from minority ethnic backgrounds, for example, are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At LifeArc we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so whatever your background or lived experience, if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. Our top priority is finding the best candidate, and you may be just right for this or other roles.
We all have potential. At LifeArc, you’ll discover what you can really do with it.