Research Project Manager | The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 30 October 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £56,276 - £63,176 Per Annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 November 2025 |
| Location: | Chelsea, SW3 6JJ |
| Company: | The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7586272/282-CR811-C |
Summary
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Research Project Manager to lead delivery of the NIHR i4i (Invention for Innovation) Product Development Award project:
“HOLO-AIM: Holographic surgical guidance using Artificial Intelligence and Mixed Reality for safer and more efficient surgery.”
This flagship translational collaboration between The Royal Marsden Hospital, Imperial College London, and industry partner Holocare will develop and clinically validate an AI-powered, mixed-reality surgical-guidance platform integrating real-time imaging, computer vision, and workflow tools to improve surgical precision and patient safety.
This is a hybrid role, with three days per week on site at our Chelsea campus and flexibility for remote working. Occasional travel to our Sutton site or partner institutions may be required.
The post-holder will provide strategic and operational leadership to ensure the project is delivered to time, scope, and budget. They will coordinate activity across academic, clinical, and industry partners and manage risk, governance, and reporting to meet NIHR requirements.
Key responsibilities include:
Coordinating delivery, progress monitoring, and risk management across all work packages.
Supporting governance, contracts, and IP /data management with partner research offices and legal teams.
Overseeing project finances and NIHR-compliant reporting (c. £2 million budget).
Engaging stakeholders and PPIE partners to ensure patient perspectives
inform design and evaluation.
Planning dissemination and stakeholder-engagement activities to maximise project impact.
Contributing to preparation of future translational research proposals to major UK and international funders (e.g. NIHR, MRC, Innovate UK, UKRI, Horizon Europe, European Innovation Council).
Strong project-management experience in healthcare, digital health, AI or medical-device innovation is essential.
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a world-leading cancer centre and, together with its academic partner The Institute of Cancer Research, forms the only specialist cancer NIHR Biomedical Research Centre.
Our mission is to accelerate innovation from bench to bedside—improving outcomes for people affected by cancer through earlier diagnosis, precision treatment, and the use of advanced data and digital technologies.
We offer a stimulating and supportive working environment, clear career pathways, and flexible working opportunities.
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification:
Project management
• Take responsibility for the administrative aspects of project management and governance to enable
appropriate oversight, including scheduling, organising meetings.
• Lead maintenance of accurate project records, including drafting meeting agendas/notes, trackingproject progress against work plans and attribution of responsibilities.
• Support the negotiation and monitoring of contracts and budgets with collaborating partners.
• Collate and maintain a risk register and report to appropriate committees on their status.
• Maintain financial records that enables monitoring of project expenditure against budget (c.£2M)
Communication
• Be the primary operational point of contact i.e. liaising with finance, operations, legal, technology
transfer and academic staff at the participating universities and NHS Trusts, ensuring all parties
have project information necessary to deliver their respective functions.
• Develop and oversee robust communication between the collaborators and The RM. This will
include monitoring outputs from collaborating organisations to ensure appropriate accrediting and
acknowledgment of the research funders, RM and its investigators.
• Develop and maintain relationships with external and internal groups to ensure that research
activity is promoted with relevant stakeholders.
• Liaise with funder secretariat on an as needs basis to ensure compliance with contractual
obligations. This may include supporting the negotiation of revisions to planned work and
resources.
This advert closes on Friday 31 Oct 2025
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