Principal Delivery Manager (Healthcare)

Location: Home worker, United Kingdom; Belfast, United Kingdom; Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom. Flexibility to work on customer sites and travel when required. Eligible to achieve SC clearance by having lived continuously in the UK for 5 years and passing background checks.

Company

hirify.global delivers digital services, Workday solutions, and digital transformation programmes for clients, including healthcare organisations.

What you will do

• Lead complex, high-value digital transformation programmes across multiple teams, workstreams, and suppliers, ensuring measurable customer and end-user outcomes.
• Set programme direction, define success factors, manage dependencies, risks, issues, and delivery challenges, and maintain proportionate governance and assurance.
• Own programme financial performance, including cost, revenue, margin, forecasting, commercial compliance, and contract management.
• Build trusted relationships with Director and C-level stakeholders and contribute to account strategy, proposals, bids, pitches, and healthcare account growth.
• Lead, coach, develop, and resource delivery leaders and multidisciplinary teams, contributing to recruitment, succession planning, and capability growth.
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement in technology, delivery methods, management practices, team experience, and customer outcomes.

Requirements

• Significant experience delivering complex digital programmes within a consultancy, professional services, or comparable environment.
• Digital delivery experience and stakeholder management in a complex environment.
• Proven experience leading large-scale digital transformation programmes across multiple teams and suppliers.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments.
• Strong record of delivering successful outcomes while balancing customer needs, commercial objectives, and delivery performance.
• Experience establishing programme governance and managing risks, issues, and assurance in complex delivery environments.
• Experience building trusted relationships with and influencing senior stakeholders, including Director and/or C-level decision-makers.
• Experience leading, developing, and coaching high-performing teams, including line management responsibility.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and decision-making skills, with the ability to operate effectively in complex stakeholder environments.
• Flexibility to work on customer sites and travel when required.
• Eligibility to achieve SC clearance, requiring 5 years of continuous UK residence and background checks.

Nice to have

• Experience delivering programmes in central government, healthcare, defence, or another highly regulated environment.
• Broad technology experience and awareness of emerging trends, including AI, with curiosity about improving delivery effectiveness and customer outcomes.
• Business development and account growth experience, including account planning, bids, proposals, and procurement activities.
• Evidence of securing follow-on work or expanding existing client relationships.
• Experience leading improvements to management, delivery, or leadership practices across a team, account, or organisation.

Culture & Benefits

• People-first culture focused on collaboration, inclusion, creativity, and meaningful impact.
• Support for individual growth, development, coaching, and career progression.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion and equal opportunity for candidates from all backgrounds.
• Recruitment process accommodations and adjustments available through a private conversation with the talent acquisition team.