Head of Programme Delivery
| Posting date: | 19 January 2026 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 February 2026 |
| Location: | Cardiff, Cardiff, CF10 5BT |
| Company: | Hays Specialist Recruitment |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 4762420_1768814548 |
Summary
The RoleAs Head of Programme Delivery, you will:
- Provide senior leadership and strategic direction, contributing to organisational plans, policy and performance.
- Lead a high performing team, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and innovation.
- Build strong relationships across industry, health, social care, academia and government to generate and deliver a robust portfolio of innovation projects.
- Develop and oversee programme plans, ensuring effective resource, budget, risk, and performance management.
- Drive continuous improvement, ensuring tools and processes effectively support project and programme delivery.
- Represent the organisation at events and conferences across Wales, the UK and internationally.
Key Responsibilities
- Identify unmet health and social care needs and translate these into focused innovation programmes.
- Lead end‑to‑end programme and project delivery, from opportunity assessment through to evaluation and benefits realisation.
- Produce accurate reports, monitor progress, and ensure programmes achieve defined outputs, outcomes and impacts.
- Coach, mentor and support team members, ensuring strong performance and alignment with strategic aims.
- Work collaboratively across internal teams to align intelligence, partnerships, communications and economic development activities.
About YouYou will bring:
- Proven experience in programme leadership within health, care, life sciences, innovation or related fields.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills across public, private and academic sectors.
- Expertise in delivering complex, multi-stakeholder programmes with measurable impact.
- Strong strategic thinking, communication and people‑leadership capabilities.
- Ability to drive cultural change and champion innovation adoption.
Your new company
A unique opportunity has arisen for an experienced programme leader to drive the adoption of innovative solutions across Wales. This senior role leads a dedicated team to accelerate the delivery of high impact programmes across different areas.
Your new role
As Head of Programme Delivery, you will:
- Provide senior leadership and strategic direction, contributing to organisational plans, policy and performance.
- Lead a high performing team, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and innovation.
- Build strong relationships across industry, health, social care, academia and government to generate and deliver a robust portfolio of innovation projects.
- Develop and oversee programme plans, ensuring effective resource, budget, risk, and performance management.
- Drive continuous improvement, ensuring tools and processes effectively support project and programme delivery.
- Represent the organisation at events and conferences across Wales, the UK and internationally.
Key Responsibilities
- Identify unmet health and social care needs and translate these into focused innovation programmes.
- Lead end‑to‑end programme and project delivery, from opportunity assessment through to evaluation and benefits realisation.
- Produce accurate reports, monitor progress, and ensure programmes achieve defined outputs, outcomes and impacts.
- Coach, mentor and support team members, ensuring strong performance and alignment with strategic aims.
- Work collaboratively across internal teams to align intelligence, partnerships, communications and economic development activities.
What you'll need to succeed
You will bring:
- Proven experience in programme leadership within ideally with exposure to Public Sector.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills across public, private and academic sectors.
- Expertise in delivering complex, multi-stakeholder programmes with measurable impact.
- Strong strategic thinking, communication and people‑leadership capabilities.
- Ability to drive cultural change and champion innovation adoption.
What you'll get in return
This permanent opportunity offers a Hybrid role part of the time you will be working out of the organisation's Cardiff office.
What you need to do now
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