About this role
Job summary
The NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) is at the centre of the NHS's digital transformation, helping organisations make better decisions through data, real-time insight and emerging AI capabilities. By bringing together information from across health and care, NHS FDP is enabling a fundamental shift in how services are planned, delivered and improved. It provides the foundation for smarter, more proactive healthcare, empowering frontline teams with the tools, insights and visualisations needed to improve patient outcomes, optimise resources and transform the delivery of care across the NHS.
The Senior Delivery Manager plays a key role within the Federated Data Platform (FDP) Local Product Team, supporting the successful delivery of innovative digital products that improve operational performance and patient outcomes across NHS provider trusts, systems and Integrated Care Boards (ICBs).
Working within a multidisciplinary environment, the post holder will be responsible for maintaining the delivery cadence and operational management of products progressing through the FDP Product Lifecycle Framework, from incubation and pilot through to adoption and scaling. The role will bring together clinical, operational, technical and supplier teams, ensuring activities are coordinated effectively and delivery remains on track.
Please see attached assignment brief.
Main duties of the job
Job Dutieso Lead the planning, coordination and delivery of product initiatives across incubation, pilot, implementation and adoption phases, ensuring milestones, dependencies and delivery plans are actively managed.o Drive delivery governance by maintaining clear reporting on progress, risks, issues, decisions and escalations, ensuring alignment with agreed objectives, timelines and success measures.o Work collaboratively across product, supplier, technical, clinical, operational, assurance and FDP teams to maintain delivery momentum and ensure requirements are met.o Support implementation, adoption, benefits tracking and continuous improvement with provider organisations, ICBs and frontline users, sharing learning and best practice across the Local Product Team.
This role is suited to an experienced delivery professional with strong organisational, stakeholder management and problem-solving skills who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment and delivering tangible outcomes through digital transformation. We are looking for candidates who can evidence the essential criteria; it would be advantageous if candidates also have one or more of the desirable knowledge and experience.
About us
NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.
Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms -- enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.
In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.
If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR).This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.
Job description Job responsibilities
You can find further details about the role,including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside theorganisational structureand person specificationin the attached Job Descriptionand other supporting documents.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Educated to master's level or equivalent qualification/delivery experience.
Skills Essential
Supporting the teams in achieving the best possible team make-up required depending on the context and situation by recognising opportunities for improvement, eliminating impediments and facilitating changes to the teams. Managing a broad range of diverse stakeholders, understanding their needs, managing expectations and building consensus. Ability to facilitate discussions about high risk and complexity within constrained timescales. Identifying impediments and blockers that get in the way of delivery. Actively addressing complex risks, issues and dependencies. Planning and organising a broad range of complex activities, formulating and adjusting plans to reflect changing circumstances.
Experience Essential
Extensive experience of applying agile values and principles (from the agile manifesto) and lean thinking into practice to enable a multi-disciplinary user-centred development team and/or team of teams, to successfully deliver value through digital features or a product or service.
Desirable
Proven experience delivering change and continuous improvement initiatives supported by technology, with a strong understanding of wider transformation activities, risk management and maintaining service.
Knowledge Desirable
Knowledge and experience of governing, assuring and managing risks associated with AI-enabled products, ensuring safe, compliant and effective adoption in a regulated environment. Practitioner-level understanding of operational and clinical workflows across care settings, with the ability to identify process optimisation opportunities and articulate a compelling case for change, including risks, benefits and strategic outcomes.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details Employer name NHS England
Address National
7-8 Wellington Place, Leeds or 10 South Colonnade London
Leeds/London
LS1 4AP
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/working-for/ (Opens in a new tab)