Senior Programme Manager - PharosA1

About Us

About PharosAI 

PharosAI offers a unique cancer AI product development ecosystem for drug discovery and clinical applications, democratising access to data, AI assets, technologies, and capabilities. PharosAI unites large-scale multimodal cancer datasets with AI models through a highly-secure, trusted, federated platform, offering state-of-the-art AI tooling for use by pharma/biotech/life-sciences, AI-pharma, and AI developers of clinical applications, in enterprises, growth companies, and research organisations. PharosAI will also provide a “lend me an expert” concierge service, training and education in AI for clinicians, and an end-to-end product development and deployment service, helping cancer pathology services to be more easily deployed within the NHS. This will be facilitated by a best-in-class patient involvement and governance model, and fair value sharing for data providers. 

PharosAI will revolutionise AI-powered cancer care, driving breakthrough therapies, clinical applications, addressing cancer’s social determinants, lowering barriers to UK SMEs, catalysing innovation and positioning the UK as a global leader in this dynamic ecosystem. 

PharosAI is a joint venture between two leading research-intensive universities, King’s College London and Queen Mary University of London; and two innovative NHS Trusts, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and Barts Health Trust. PharosAI has been awarded £18.9M in funding from the Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology, and cash and in-kind contributions bringing the total funding to £44M.

About The Role

Overview of the role 

PharosAI’s Senior Programme Manager will play a key role in coordinating and delivering PharosAI’s business plan and projects. The Programme Manager will be the lynchpin of overall management and reporting of the PharosAI programme, including financial management, business planning, risk management, performance reporting, evaluation, and business assurance coordinating across the four main PharosAI partners (King’s, QMUL, GSTT, Barts) and working closely with their research offices and finance teams. The post-holder will support the CEO and COO of PharosAI in developing and monitoring the annual business plan and budget. This includes both coordination of delivery of “business as usual” activities and collaborative projects with partners across diverse teams and sites. The Senior Programme Manager will also support the COO and PharosAI’s Leadership Team in developing grant and external investment proposals, particularly the financial and budget management. This is a new role. It involves co-ordinating a large number of stakeholders, planning meetings, managing a large budget using both Worktribe and Business World (the research and financial management systems used by King’s), and engaging with the team leads to monitor progress. 

We are looking for a strong individual who is highly motivated, organised, and proactive, with experience of research/financial planning and management. Specific experience and interest of health data research, AI, and cancer research would be a distinct advantage. 

This role will require an ability to work collaboratively across a consortium of partners, and provides the opportunity for external liaison, with interfaces to UK government, academia, industry, and the clinical community. The environment will be fast-paced and demanding, and we are looking for a highly organised individual with a can-do attitude, attention to detail, whilst maintaining an ability to see the bigger strategic picture. 

This is a full time and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 31 March 2027.

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