Senior Project Manager - Productivity

• Lead and deliver productivity and service improvement projects across clinical and corporate services.
• Support the identification, development and implementation of opportunities that improve productivity, efficiency and value for money.
• Develop robust business cases, implementation plans, benefits realisation frameworks and performance reporting arrangements.
• Work closely with clinical, operational, workforce, digital and finance colleagues to facilitate change and support delivery of agreed objectives.
• Monitor project progress, risks, issues, dependencies and benefits, ensuring appropriate governance and escalation arrangements are maintained.
• Analyse complex information and translate data into actionable insight to support decision making.
• Present findings and recommendations to senior leaders, programme boards and governance groups.
• Support the Trust's wider financial sustainability, service transformation and improvement agenda through effective project leadership and stakeholder engagement.

• Leading the planning, mobilisation and delivery of productivity improvement programmes.
• Developing project plans, delivery milestones, governance arrangements and reporting mechanisms.
• Working with service, clinical and corporate teams to identify opportunities for improvement and support implementation.
• Coordinating multidisciplinary working groups and maintaining effective stakeholder engagement throughout project lifecycles.
• Establishing and monitoring project benefits, ensuring improvements are measurable, sustainable and aligned to Trust priorities.
• Identifying, managing and escalating project risks, issues and dependencies.
• Producing high-quality reports, presentations and papers for senior management and governance forums.
• Supporting the development of productivity methodologies, benchmarking approaches and improvement tools.
• Contributing to the Trust's financial sustainability objectives through delivery of recurrent productivity and efficiency improvements.
• Providing expert advice and support on programme and project management methodologies, continuous improvement approaches and benefits realisation.

Essential

• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
• Relevant Masters qualification or equivalent experience of working as a senior operational or strategic manager in a relevant field
• Evidence on ongoing CPD activity

Essential

• Extensive project management experience including: Project planning, reporting and risk management, Financial management, Delivering change projects within agreed timescales
• Experience of managing project teams
• Experience of working at a senior level in a large organisation in a political environment engaging effectively with stakeholders