Head of EPMO

Job Title: Head of EPMO

Function: Strategy & Change

Hybrid Worker – Expectation is two days per week on site at our Nottingham office

Contract type: Permanent

Salary: Offered on a starting salary of £ 93,504 with the potential to increase to £110,004 over the course of three years, plus a car allowance of £8,500

Closing Date: Thursday 12th November 2026

NHS Supply Chain currently has an opportunity for a Head of EPMO to join our team during an exciting period of transformation, working to make it easier for the NHS to put patients first.

This a critical strategic leadership role responsible for the end-to-end definition, governance and oversight of the NHS SC Change Portfolio. You will lead a high-performing Enterprise Portfolio Management Office to ensure that complex, multi-year transformation initiatives are delivered on time, within budget, and aligned with the NHS 10-Year Health Plan. The role maintains an aligned, organisation wide portfolio plan and enables delivery of intended outcomes through consistent oversight and disciplined decision making.

Every day you will … 

• Provides leadership and guidance so that the organisation invests in the right change initiatives by aligning the portfolio to key strategic priorities - resulting in clearer decision making, reduced duplication, and maximum value for patients and the system.
• Acts as a key partner to the Executive by leading the Investment Forum, giving senior leaders confidence that project investments are realistic, affordable and deliverable - improving accountability, transparency and assurance across all directorates.
• Acts as a key partner to the Executive by leading the 2030 Executive Oversight Forum, providing expert advice on the integrated plan, risk mitigation, and the management of critical interdependencies across major transformation initiatives.
• Provides high quality portfolio intelligence, analytics and reporting that enables both the Executive & Board to make timely, evidence-based decisions — improving responsiveness to risks, pressures and opportunities across the system. Reports portfolio performance into the Board’s Performance & Change Committees.
• Drives and embeds consistent delivery practices through single source of the truth PPM tooling, common delivery methodology and universal PPM standards. Deploys project assurance to drive standardisation and improve the likelihood of successful outcomes — enabling the organisation to deliver change on time, to budget and with measurable impact.
• Benefits Realisation and Value Optimisation: Ensures that transformation programmes deliver meaningful improvements in service quality, efficiency and patient outcomes by embedding disciplined benefits management from business case to delivery and BAU.
• Capability Building and a Culture of Continuous Improvement: Develops a high performing and agile PMO, increasing operating capability to enable end to end delivery capability across the organisation, strengthening leadership confidence, reducing reliance on external support, and embedding a culture of learning, consistency and improvement in how impactful, and transformative change is delivered.

What can we offer you?

We want to reward you for your passion, enthusiasm, and hard work so we offer much more than a competitive salary:

• Hybrid working opportunities, giving you the flexibility to work collaboratively in the office and remotely.  

• We recognise our employees' hard work and contributions with annual bonus schemes, long service, and colleague recognition awards. 

• 27 days holiday plus bank holidays

• We are dedicated to your development, through in-house training, support, and access to external qualifications to maximise your potential.

• A focus on your well-being offering 1 day of paid well-being leave and free access to the 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme

• Generous pension scheme (with us contributing 12% when you contribute 6%)

• Access to our Flexible Benefits Scheme, where you can choose from a variety of benefits such as Life Insurance, Critical Illness Cover, Income Protection, Health Cash Plan, Dental Insurance, and additional pension contributions that suit you.

• 2 days of paid volunteering leave allowing you to give back to your community. 

• Access to many discounts from the Blue Light Card to NHS Discounts.

 

NHS Supply Chain, who are we?

Our role is to support the NHS to save lives and improve health. We are a part of the NHS family, and our role is to source, deliver and supply healthcare products, services and food for NHS trusts and healthcare organisations across England and Wales.

 

We serve every NHS Trust and operate a national network of distribution centres, managing relationships with more than a thousand suppliers and delivering more than 8,000,000 orders each year to more than 17,000 locations. Doing all of this on behalf of the NHS gives NHS staff more time to focus on their main priority of providing excellent patient care.

 

 

What skills will help you thrive in this role?

• Proven track record of leading an Enterprise PMO in a large, complex organisation (ideally public sector or large-scale logistics/B2B).
• Ability to translate the NHS Long Term Plan into actionable Portfolio roadmaps. Demonstrates the ability to lead and navigate areas of ambiguity.
• Extensive experience managing £100m+ transformation portfolios, specifically involving digital ERP transitions or infrastructure modernisation.
• Converting raw PPM data into "Executive Intelligence and informative insight" You must be able to create and tell compelling stories with data that identifies a risk, along with appropriate mitigation strategies before it becomes a concern.
• Designing frameworks that provide the unlock for control and predictability without creating "red tape" that stifles delivery speed, and agility.
• The ability to mediate between competing Executive priorities. You aren't just "managing a list"; you are recommending which projects to stop or delay to protect the NHS Supply Chain 2030 strategy, through sound data led insights.
• Strong capability in benefits realisation, risk management and using data driven insights, analytics and reporting to support executive level decision making.
• Advanced understanding of PPM methodologies (e.g., MoP, MSP, PRINCE2, Agile/Hybrid) and experience implementing organisation wide standards, tooling and ways of working. With the ability to pivot the organisation into news ways of working that not only deliver for today but set us up for the challenges of tomorrow.

Our Inclusive Commitment

At NHS Supply Chain, we are committed to building an inclusive environment where difference is not only valued, but celebrated, giving everyone the opportunity to thrive in their career. Developing our people is key to our success, so if this role sounds like the right next step in your career but your experience doesn’t match perfectly with the job advert, we encourage you to still apply.

Struggling to complete our application form, and require additional support? Reach out to our Talent Acquisition team at careers@supplychain.nhs.uk who will be happy to help you with alternative ways to apply.