Senior Project Manager

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Company Description

Marie Curie is the UK's leading end-of-life charity. We are the largest non-NHS provider of end-of-life care in the UK, the only provider across all 4 nations, delivering community nursing and hospice care across the country, while providing information and support on all aspects of dying, death, and bereavement. Our leading research pushes the boundaries of what we know about good end-of-life, and our campaigns fight for a world where everyone gets to have the best possible quality of life while living with an illness, they're likely to die from.

Job Description

Join our Business Transformation team and take a leading role in facilitating effective, strategic change. Working at the centre of organisational change, you'll collaborate with senior leaders to deploy innovative solutions that improve how we work - transforming processes, structures, and technologies to enable smarter, more effective ways of working.

As Senior Project Manager, you'll play a critical role in facilitating cross-organisation projects sponsored by the Executive team. You'll be responsible for driving change from concept to completion - ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and with measurable, sustainable benefits. Your work will directly improve how Marie Curie operates to supports those who rely on us.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the full project lifecycle, ensuring delivery meets agreed scope, budget, timeline, and governance standards.
• Partner with Executive Sponsors and business leads to design, plan and manage delivery of projects and change initiatives.
• Coordinate multiple workstreams, manage resources, and direct cross-functional project teams.
• Engage with and manage external partners and vendors.
• Assess the impact of change and effectively manage risks and emerging issues.
• Ensure smooth transition from project delivery into operations, ensuring strategies are in place for the successful adoption of changes.

Key Criteria:

• Established experience managing strategic and complex change projects with senior-level stakeholders.
• Proven ability to coordinate multiple workstreams and projects, lead project teams and manage resources.
• Industry recognised project management and/or change management qualification (e.g. Prince2, APM, Agile, Prosci).
• Solid track record of managing high-value project budgets and delivering business change with measurable benefits.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence and engage at all levels.

Please see the full job description HERE.

Qualifications

Additional Information

Application & Interview Process

• As part of your online application, you will be asked for a CV and supplementary information. Please review both the advert and job description and outline your most relevant skills, experience and knowledge for the role.
• Close date for applications: 14 Sep 2025. We encourage early applications, as we may close the application process ahead of the deadline once we have received a sufficient number of suitable applications.

Salary: £50,000-60,000 per annum, depending on experience

Contract: Permanent, full-time (35 hours per week)

Based: Home-based with occasional travel across the UK

Benefits you'll LOVE:

• Flexible working. We're happy to discuss flexible working at the interview stage.
• 25 days annual leave (exclusive of Bank Holidays)
• Marie Curie Group Personal Pension Scheme (we will match your contribution up to 7.5%)
• Loan schemes for bikes; computers and season tickets
• Continuous professional development opportunities.
• Industry-leading training programmes
• Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programmes
• Enhanced bereavement, family friendly and sickness benefits
• Access to Blue Light Card membership
• Subsidised Eye Care

Marie Curie is committed to its values, which underpin our work. We take stringent steps to ensure that the people who join our organisation through employment or volunteering, are suitable for their roles and are committed to safeguarding all our people from harm. This includes our staff, volunteers and all those who use or come into contact with our services. We are dedicated to creating not just a safe place to work but also a supportive and rewarding one.

We are committed to a world where everyone can thrive and fulfil their potential. We are devoted to the social justice imperatives and organisational benefits of full diversity, inclusion and equity in the workplace, and are a Stonewall champion. We actively encourage and welcome applications from candidates of diverse cultures, perspectives and lived experiences.

We're happy to accommodate any requests for reasonable adjustments. Please email any requests to recruitment@mariecurie.org.uk