Job Description:

Senior Project Manager

Fixed Term Contract - 12 Months

Location: Angel Court (EC2R 7HJ)
Hybrid working: 1-2 days per week in the office
Working hours: 37.5 hours per week

Salary: starting from £82,800 (pro rata), negotiable dependent on experience.
Benefits: Role-specific bonus of 10% MBS

We make health happen.

At Bupa, we're passionate about technology. With colleagues, customers, patients and residents in mind you'll have the opportunity to work on innovative projects and make a real impact on their lives.

Right from the start you'll become part of our digital strategy, joining us on our journey and developing yourself along the way.

As a Senior Project Manager, you'll play a key role in delivering large-scale transformation across our Internal Products & Platforms (IP&P) function. You'll lead complex technology and business change initiatives that directly support Bupa's strategic goals, including our transition to an 'IT as a Service' model. This is an opportunity to work on programmes that enhance how we deliver healthcare services, improving outcomes for our customers and colleagues alike.

You'll join a collaborative, purpose-driven environment where your expertise will help shape meaningful change and deliver measurable value.

How you'll help us make health happen

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of multiple large or complex projects, from initiation through to successful implementation
• Manage project scope, timelines, budgets, and resources to ensure delivery against agreed outcomes
• Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders across business and IT, acting as a trusted partner
• Translate business requirements into clear operational project plans and deliverables
• Identify and manage risks, issues, and dependencies, ensuring proactive mitigation
• Oversee project governance, reporting, and alignment with agreed methodologies (Agile, SDLC, ITIL)
• Collaborate across teams to optimise resource utilisation and delivery efficiency
• Manage third-party vendors, ensuring strong performance and cost-effectiveness
• Drive continuous improvement opportunities to enhance service delivery and reduce costs
• Lead and support project teams, fostering accountability, collaboration, and high performance

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

• Proven experience delivering large-scale business and IT transformation projects
• Proven experience delivering network-related projects and programmes of work
• Demonstrated experience leading technical change initiatives, particularly within infrastructure and connectivity
• Strong experience working within complex environments involving multiple suppliers and stakeholders
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at all levels
• Strong commercial awareness, including budget and vendor management
• Strong knowledge of project delivery methodologies such as Agile and SDLC
• Experience in IT operational readiness and frameworks such as ITIL
• Experience managing and developing direct reports
• Experience managing complex environments with multiple stakeholders and suppliers
• Good understanding of modern network technologies, including SD-WAN and SASE

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health - from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• 25 days holiday per year, pro rata to your contract.

• Access to a range of services to support your physical and mental wellbeing

• Fixed term benefits allowance

• Access to our confidential employee assistance programme

• Workplace pension

• Online discounts covering your everyday shopping, entertainment, eating out and more.

Why Bupa?

We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to "Be you at Bupa", we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

Time Type:
Full time
Job Area:
IT
Locations:
Angel Court, London