Programme Management Office (PMO) Manager

Job overview

Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) is a highly digitised healthcare organisation, recognised as a HIMSS EMRAM Level 7 institution. We are committed to driving innovation and excellence in healthcare through our strategic plan.

Help shape how the Trust delivers productivity and efficiency—improving access to care by reducing unwarranted variation and removing unnecessary activity across inpatient and outpatient pathways, and across corporate and administrative processes.

We’re seeking an experienced PMO Manager to provide robust, risk-based governance and drive consistent, high-quality programme delivery across a strategically significant portfolio. You’ll set the standards for how schemes are identified, planned, tracked and reported—ensuring benefits are realised while safeguarding patient and staff safety and the quality of service provision.

Working in a matrix environment, you will partner with executive, clinical, operational and corporate leaders to: maintain a standardised governance framework; embed clear processes, templates and reporting; surface quality impact and delivery risks early; and escalate concerns appropriately. You’ll also work closely with Analytics and Insights to use data to identify opportunities and demonstrate impact.

If you bring excellent facilitation and negotiation skills, strong programme leadership, a “can-do” approach, and a sound understanding of NHS finance, we’d love to hear from you—safe, kind and excellent in all you do.

Main duties of the job

The role of the programme management office (PMO) function within the improvement and transformation team is to:

Provide and oversee an effective, standardised risk-based governance framework for the productivity and efficiency programme.

Provide standardised documents and clear processes to support divisions and directorates to identify, plan, report and deliver productivity and efficiency schemes.

Provide accurate and timely reporting of the development and delivery of productivity and efficiency schemes, and identification of associated quality impact or delivery risks.

Provide timely and appropriate escalation of emerging or actual concerns in respect of patient and staff safety, the quality-of-service provision and the deliverability of related schemes.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have: -    applied for a Graduate visa -    or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment This vacancy will close at midnight on the 20th May 2026.

Interviews are due to be held on the 25th June 2026.

Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.