Bold innovation. Cross-functional collaboration. Impacting the future.
Senior Project Manager
£50,000 - £60,000 (+ Benefits)
Reports to: Lead Project Manager
Grade: P3
Department: Chief Operating Office
Contract: Fixed-term contract ending on the 31 March 2026
Hours: Full time 35 hours per week
Location: Stratford, London Office-based with high flexibility (1-2 days per week in the office)
Visa sponsorship: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is
not able to offer visa sponsorship.
Closing date: 27 August 2025 23:55
This vacancy may close earlier if a high volume of applications is received or once a suitable candidate is found, therefore we strongly recommend that you apply early to avoid disappointment. If you require more time to apply as part of a reasonable adjustment, please contact
[email protected] as soon as possible.
Recruitment process: Two competency-based interviews
Interview date: From the week commencing 08 September 2025
How do I apply? We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion. CVs are required for all applications; but we won’t be able to view them until we invite you for an interview. Instead, we ask you to fully complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you quickly, fairly, and objectively.
At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.
We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That’s why we’re looking for someone talented, someone who wants to develop their skills, someone like you.
Cancer Research UK’s Technology team is currently delivering a range of ambitious, modern change initiatives and programmes across the organisation to ensure we maximise the value of our resources while delivering operational transformation and management, and an employee and supporter experience that enables us to be an inclusive, well-governed, agile, and sustainable organisation. This involves delivering and managing a variety of projects to drive change across a range of products and services used by 4,000+ staff, 600+ shops, and thousands of supporters.
We are searching for a Senior Project Manager (Technology) to join our Project & Delivery Management team. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring end-to-end delivery of a range of medium to large change projects or programmes. This will involve facilitating teamwork and collaboration, providing quality stakeholder engagement, reporting on timeframes and budgets, and matrix managing our talented project teams.
If you’re an experienced Technology Project Manager looking for an opportunity to deliver a diverse range of purpose-driven projects that truly make a difference, we’d love for you to join our mission.
What will I be doing?
- Facilitating and leading the end-to-end delivery of a range of medium to large change projects or programmes across Technology.
- Collaborating with Sponsor, Business Owner(s), and project team to clearly define project vision, outcomes, key milestones, decisions, and project roadmap.
- Applying an Agile mindset to effectively deliver a range of complex projects while collaborating across teams and ensuring appropriate governance with stakeholders.
- Identifying and planning project resource needs, governance, and structure.
- This includes identifying and managing all risks, issues, and opportunities with the project team, as well as collaborating with the project team and partners to identify options and recommendations for project delivery.
- Identifying stakeholders and ensuring effective stakeholder engagement.
- Leading the day-to-day project activity and team ensuring effective collaboration and planning.
- Managing escalations appropriately to ensure decisions are made by the appropriate representatives based on evidence while considering risks, costs, benefits, and options.
- Managing project budgets, forecasting, and tracking external and internal project resources while providing regular reporting on project cost, benefits, and status.
- Facilitating an end-to-end approach to delivery, ensuring consideration of change and support throughout the project.
- This role is responsible for matrix-managing several project teams and many stakeholders.
What are you looking for?
- Experienced Project Manager with a background in delivering Technology projects and change programmes in large organisations.
- Experience working with an Agile mindset and the project lifecycle within different methodologies (e.g. Agile, Waterfall).
- Background in business change management with the ability to shape a ‘good practice approach’.
- Has effectively managed project budgets while taking responsibility for tracking and reporting.
- Strong stakeholder engagement with the ability to influence others effectively (including at a senior level), articulate a case for change, and gain stakeholder support.
- Proven ability to work independently and autonomously whilst managing day-to-day workload and priorities (and the workload of others).
Our organisation values are designed to guide all that we do.
Bold: Act with ambition, courage and determination
Credible: Act with rigour and professionalism
Human: Act to have a positive impact on people
Together: Act inclusively and collaboratively
We’re looking for people who can believe in and embody these organisation values and can use them to drive forward progress against our mission to beat cancer.
If you’re interested in applying and excited about working with us but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience we’d still love to hear from you.
What will I gain?
We create a working environment that supports your wellbeing and provide a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools. Our policies and processes enable you to improve your work-life balance, take positive steps in your career and achieve your personal wellbeing goals.
You can explore our benefits by visiting our careers web page.
Additional Information
For more information about working with us please visit our website or contact us at
[email protected].
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Our vision is to create a charity where everyone feels like they belong, benefits from and participates in, the work we do. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, in particular those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under-represented.
We want to see every candidate performing at their best throughout the job application process, interview process and whilst at work. We therefore ask you to inform us of any concerns you have or any adjustments you might need to enable this to happen. Please contact
[email protected] or
020 3469 8400 as soon as possible.
Unfortunately, we are unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18, so that we can protect young people from health & safety and safeguarding risks.
