Job Description:
Job Title: Data Programme Manager
Contract: Remote
Location: Home based with a minimum of 1 day per month in our Salford Quays office
Permanent/fixed term contract: Permanent
Salary range: £67,900 to £84,800 depending on experience
Full time/part time: Full Time, 37.5 hours per week
We make health happen
Working in our UK support functions you'll play a key part in helping our customer facing colleagues deliver exceptional standards of customer service and patient care. No matter your role, you'll have an opportunity to do work that matters. Making a difference to the lives of our customers each and every day.
This is an exciting opportunity to lead Bupa's Data Office as a Principal Data Programme Manager, overseeing the successful delivery of complex, high-impact data initiatives that drive strategic transformation across the organisation. In this senior leadership role, you'll manage a multidisciplinary team including Senior Business Analysts, Data Modellers, and Scrum Masters - ensuring cohesive, efficient, and value-driven delivery across a portfolio of data programmes.
How you'll help us make health happen:
You'll work closely with senior stakeholders to align data initiatives with Bupa's strategic goals, governance standards, and performance ambitions. A key part of this role involves close collaboration with the leads for Data Governance, Data Science and AI, and Business Intelligence within the Health Service data team - ensuring that delivery is integrated, strategic, and aligned with enterprise-wide data priorities.
As a key enabler of our strategy, you'll shape the operating model of the Data Office, embed best-in-class delivery practices, and foster a culture of data-driven decision-making. You'll also play a critical role in building delivery capability, mentoring your team, and ensuring that data is used responsibly and effectively to improve outcomes for our customers, patients, and colleagues.
Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:
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:
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.
If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: careers@bupa.com
Time Type:
Full timeJob Area:
Strategy, Change & TransformationLocations:
Home Based North c/o Bupa Place
Bupa’s purpose is helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We do this by providing a broad range of healthcare services, support and advice to people throughout their lives. People are at the heart of everything we do. Together, we make health happen.
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Here you’ll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve.
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