Overview
An ambitious Delivery Manager role within Cancer Grand Challenges (CGC), responsible for leading the delivery of CGC’s next phase and shaping its future direction. The role involves managing complex, multi‑stakeholder projects across a large organisation, ensuring governance, stakeholder engagement, and successful on‑time, on‑budget delivery.
Responsibilities
* Lead the delivery of CGC’s next phase and shape its future direction.
* Manage complex, multi‑stakeholder projects, ensuring they are completed on time and within budget.
* Collaborate across teams, establishing appropriate governance with stakeholders.
* Develop clear project plans, including deliverables, milestones, dependencies, owners, risks, issues, and mitigations, and monitor progress with adjustments as needed.
* Identify and plan resource needs, governance structures, and delivery support.
* Provide secretariat support to CGC governance forums and internal strategic groups.
* Coordinate and draft papers and reports for CGC leadership and governance groups.
* Lead development, delivery, and reporting against the CGC annual operational plan, business plan, and risk register.
* Own the management of contracts between CRUK and NCI that underpin the CGC initiative.
* Support contractual negotiations with future funding partners in collaboration with CRUK legal, finance, and strategic partnerships.
* Facilitate project or portfolio boards and steering groups at a senior management level.
Qualifications
* Proven experience as a Project Leader, Programme Manager, or Delivery Manager with a track record of delivering complex projects.
* Experience with transformation programmes and associated tools.
* Strong data interpretation skills, with the ability to extract and articulate key points accurately.
* Experience facilitating senior management boards and steering groups.
* Strong financial literacy, including budget management and financial reporting.
* Excellent relationship‑building skills, capable of influencing stakeholders and building consensus.
* Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, able to collaborate at all organisational levels.
* Track record of driving continuous improvement and developing forward‑looking plans.
* Strong problem‑solving and critical‑thinking abilities, capable of making decisions in fast‑paced environments.
Visa Sponsorship
Only candidates eligible to work in the UK may apply. Cancer Research UK does not offer visa sponsorship.
Benefits
We provide a supportive working environment, a generous benefits package, and a range of career and personal development opportunities. Our policies promote work‑life balance and overall wellbeing.
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