Manager (Mental Health)

Surgo Health is a Public Benefit Corporation building the world’s most comprehensive and insightful AI-powered data platform that reveals the why behind people’s behaviours. We uncover the unseen drivers of health - people’s beliefs, barriers, and behaviours - and transform that intelligence into scalable products that enable healthcare organizations to drive impact, reduce costs, and advance inclusion.

As Manager, you will sit at the intersection of data, youth mental health, partnerships, and strategy. You will help design and lead a flagship project to understand the behavioural, social, and structural drivers of youth wellbeing in the UK, using cutting-edge AI and data science approaches and grow Surgo’s portfolio.

What you’ll do:

• Love digging into data to understand the why behind young people’s experiences and behaviours.
• Understand the mental health and wellbeing data landscape in the UK and are excited about using novel methods to fill gaps.
• Get energy from engaging partners, shaping strategy, and driving real-world action.
• Communicate clearly, creatively, and persuasively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Want high ownership in a fast-moving, entrepreneurial environment that favours out-of-the-box, analytical thinking.

What you’ll achieve:

• Lead core workstreams on the UK Youth Wellbeing project.
• Manage day-to-day delivery of key workstreams, from scoping and design to insight generation and partner engagement.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams (e.g. data science, behavioural science, research, product) to ensure we deliver high-quality outputs on time.

Own partner relationships and stakeholder engagement:

• Be a front-facing point of contact for UK-based partners, including funders, implementation partners, and youth- and community organisations.
• Develop a deep understanding of partner priorities and pain points, and help them get the most value from Surgo’s data, tools, and insights.
• Help design and facilitate co-creation sessions and workshops with partners and, where relevant, with young people and those who support them.

Lead insight generation and strategic recommendations:

• Work with data scientists and behavioural scientists to uncover the drivers of youth wellbeing from complex datasets and novel AI methods.
• Turn advanced analytical outputs into crisp, accessible insights and recommendations for a range of audiences (funders, policymakers, practitioners, youth advocates).
• Develop compelling presentations, reports, and briefs that clearly show what the data is telling us and how it should shape decisions.

Drive adoption and impact of our work:

• Support partners in translating insights into concrete changes in policy, programmes, and implementation on the ground.
• Help develop strategies, action plans, and measurement frameworks that ensure our work leads to real improvements in youth wellbeing and equity.
• Identify where further data, analysis, or tools could unlock additional impact and feed these back into our roadmap.

Contribute to Surgo’s portfolio growth:

• Help identify new opportunities to grow Surgo’s data, products and offerings and support pitches and proposals.
• Work with colleagues to refine Surgo’s offerings in mental health, bringing a UK and youth wellbeing lens to product and data roadmap discussions.

About you:

• 5–8+ years’ experience in public health, mental health, social or policy research, consulting, strategy, or a related applied field.
• Background in public health, psychology, behavioural science, data science, social policy, epidemiology, or a related discipline.
• Strong understanding of and network in the UK mental health and wellbeing landscape for children and young people—including key actors (government, NHS, charities, foundations, community organisations), policies, and service or support pathways.
• Demonstrated experience working with complex data on mental health, wellbeing, or related outcomes (e.g. surveys, administrative data, education or service data, community or digital data sources).
• Ability to synthesise complex data into clear insights and practical recommendations that drive action.
• Comfortable working with technical teams using advanced analytics and AI, and translating their work for non-technical partners.
• Strong client- and partner-facing skills, with experience building and maintaining relationships, especially with public sector, charity, or philanthropic partners.
• Skilled project manager with excellent organisational abilities; you can juggle multiple workstreams, stakeholders, and deadlines.
• Entrepreneurial mindset, self-motivated, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

Location & travel:

• Location: London. We have a hybrid schedule with 2 days in our London office.
• Travel: Some travel within the UK (e.g. to partner sites, workshops, and events) and occasional international travel may be required.

Benefits:

• Fantastic, fun and collaborative colleagues; opportunity to solve tough challenges in healthcare.
• Ability to be entrepreneurial and tremendous opportunities for growth.
• Public Benefit Corporation with an impact and equity mission.
• Professional Development opportunities.

Surgo Health is committed to fair, equitable, and transparent practices. Our hiring philosophy is to hire for passion and core competencies. We look for problem-solvers and lateral thinkers. We love it if you have done different things with your time. If you think you are ideal for this position, write to us even if your experience doesn’t match all the requirements listed above.

Equal Opportunity and Diversity Policy: Surgo believes a diverse, inclusive staff makes a stronger team and more impactful organization and we are committed to building and developing this team and environment. Qualified people of all races, ethnicities, cultures, ages, sex, genders, sexual orientation, gender identities and expressions, languages, social class, marital status, religions, veterans status, and disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.