Senior Digital Transformation Delivery Manager in London

Prostate Progress is Prostate Cancer Research’s flagship digital data programme, supporting prostate cancer research, service improvement, and clinical trial recruitment using patient-reported outcomes and NHS clinical data. This role will provide senior-level project management and delivery coordination across the Prostate Progress programme. The postholder will be responsible for organising, tracking, and supporting delivery across multiple workstreams, ensuring strong governance, clear documentation, and effective coordination between internal teams and external partners. Working closely with the Director of Patient Projects & Influencing, the role will help ensure day-to-day delivery runs smoothly and predictably, enabling senior leadership to focus on strategy and long-term programme development.

Responsibilities

• Programme & project management

Provide day-to-day delivery leadership across the Prostate Progress programme, prioritising activity, resolving delivery issues, and escalating strategically where required. Maintain project plans, timelines, action logs, and risk registers. Track progress against milestones, flagging risks, dependencies, and delays. Support delivery across multiple concurrent workstreams, ensuring activity is coordinated and documented. The postholder will be expected to operate with a high degree of autonomy, using experience and judgement to manage competing priorities and delivery challenges.

• NHS data linkage & data onboarding

Support coordination of the NHS pilot, including attending meetings with NHS partners, SDEs, and internal teams. Track delivery milestones and actions, escalating issues and risks to the Director. Explore and scope opportunities for new datasets in collaboration with the Director, including imaging and image metadata, digital pathology, and NLP-enabled free-text data. Engage with potential partners to understand feasibility, requirements, and delivery implications. Develop and present clear options, delivery approaches, and recommendations to support decision-making. Support delivery and onboarding activity once priorities and approaches are agreed, coordinating activity across internal teams and external partners. Maintain clear records of data onboarding status and timelines.

• Regional coordination & expansion support

Support coordination of Prostate Progress expansion activity in Scotland. Assist with early-stage feasibility work relating to potential expansion into Wales.

• Governance & secretariat support

Act as secretariat to the Prostate Progress Steering Committee, including coordinating quarterly meetings, preparing agendas, papers, and briefing packs, recording actions, and following up on agreed next steps. Support the establishment and coordination of Task & Finish Groups, including organising meetings, tracking actions and outputs, and ensuring findings are captured and fed back into programme delivery.

• Internal communication

Ensure relevant teams are kept informed of progress on data onboarding, recruitment activity, and delivery timelines.

Skills and Competencies

Essential

• Proven experience in project management or delivery coordination within digital, data, health, or research environments.
• Strong organisational and planning skills, with experience managing complex workplans.
• Experience supporting governance processes and senior stakeholder meetings.
• Ability to work across multiple workstreams and coordinate diverse stakeholders.
• Confidence tracking risks, actions, and dependencies.

Desirable

• Experience working with NHS organisations or health data projects.
• Familiarity with research infrastructure, data platforms, or digital transformation programmes.

How To Apply

Please apply by submitting your CV and a short supporting statement (maximum 500 words). In the statement, focus on why you would like the role, and give 2-3 examples of your achievements or things you have learned which directly map on to the requirements of this role. Your insights and previous experience may be drawn from both professional and voluntary contexts depending on which you feel better represents your authentic self and your suitability for the role. There will be a two-stage interview process. The first interview will be online, and the second will be an in-person interview at our offices in London.

For more information about our organisation, visit the Prostate Cancer Research website, the Prostate Progress webpage and our online patient resource, The Infopool. PCR is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals regardless of their race, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.