Principal Technology Delivery Manager

Barbican, London | Hybrid Working (1 day per week in office) | Fixed Term Contract: 6 Months | Full-Time

Competitive Salary Available, Depending On Experience

37.5 hours per week

At Nuffield Health, our purpose is to build a healthier nation. As Principal Technology Delivery Manager, you'll play a pivotal leadership role in delivering the technology, digital and data initiatives that enable this ambition.

Leading delivery across a significant portfolio of programmes and projects, you'll drive outcomes, remove barriers, and ensure our teams consistently deliver high-quality solutions that make a real difference to our colleagues, customers and patients.

This is a highly visible, hands-on leadership role, combining strategic portfolio oversight with the ability to step into complex delivery challenges and drive them to successful resolution.

As our Principal Technology Delivery Manager, you’ll

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of a portfolio of technology, digital and data initiatives, ensuring delivery is on time, within budget and of the highest quality.
• Provide portfolio-level governance, reporting and assurance, maintaining real-time visibility of delivery progress, benefits realisation, risks and financial performance.
• Act as the senior escalation point for delivery challenges, proactively removing blockers and resolving cross-functional issues.
• Own portfolio budgeting, forecasting and financial management, ensuring investment decisions support strategic priorities and deliver value.
• Lead capacity planning and resource management across the Unit, balancing demand and capability to optimise delivery outcomes.
• Line manage, coach and develop Delivery Managers, fostering a high-performance culture focused on continuous improvement and delivery excellence.
• Champion best practice across agile and project delivery methodologies, driving a benefits-focused approach and raising delivery capability across Technology.

To succeed as a Principal Technology Delivery Manager, you’ll bring:

• Significant experience leading complex technology portfolios and programmes within large-scale environments.
• Proven leadership of Delivery Managers and high-performing delivery teams.
• Strong expertise in financial management, resource planning and supplier/vendor management.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence at senior and executive levels.
• Demonstrable success driving delivery excellence, continuous improvement and measurable business outcomes.

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options.

At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.

Apply today… It starts with you.