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Portfolio and Planning Lead
Application Deadline: 5 April 2026
Department: Projects
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: Cheadle
Reporting To: Director of Projects and Change
Compensation: £60,000 - £63,928 / year
At UK Biobank, delivering world-leading health research relies on more than extraordinary data. Behind the scenes sits a complex portfolio of strategic initiatives, technical programmes, and organisational improvements that ensure the organisation continues to evolve and deliver impact at scale.
We’re now looking for a Portfolio and Planning Lead to bring portfolio-level insight, coordination, and assurance across this work. This role will play a key part in helping leadership teams understand priorities, capacity, and trade-offs, ensuring strategic change remains realistic, affordable, and deliverable
As a welcoming and inclusive organisation, we value thoughtful analysis, collaboration, and people who enjoy bringing structure and clarity to complex programmes.
This is an opportunity to play a key role in shaping how UK Biobank plans and coordinates change across the organisation
UK Biobank delivers a wide range of strategic initiatives spanning technology, infrastructure, and organisational improvement. Ensuring these programmes progress effectively requires clear planning, strong portfolio oversight, and high-quality insight for decision-makers.
As Portfolio and Planning Lead, you will provide the portfolio-level view needed to support executive decision-making. You’ll bring together planning assumptions, capacity modelling, programme milestones, dependencies, risks, and costs to create a joined-up understanding of organisational delivery.
Working closely with Programme Managers and senior stakeholders across the organisation, you’ll help shape priorities, sequence work effectively, and maintain the standards and frameworks that support successful programme delivery.
To be successful, you will have:
Working hours are 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday with some flexibility, 3 days onsite with hybrid working available. Located in Greater Manchester (initially based in Stockport with a move to Manchester Science Park in mid- to late 2026).
Our passion for diversity and equality means creating a work environment for all employees that is welcoming, respectful, engaging, and enriched with opportunities for personal and professional development.
People who thrive at UK Biobank often highlight the sense of purpose in their work, supportive leadership, and a culture where wellbeing and work–life balance are genuinely valued.
We’re proud to offer a benefits package that supports your health, financial security, and development from day one:
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hackajob is partnering with UK Biobank to fill this position. Create a profile to be automatically considered for this role—and others that match your experience.