Strategy Programme Manager

The Opportunity

HeliosX's Strategy team exists to set the long term vision for the Group, identifying growth opportunities and leading key cross functional initiatives that will transform our business. After 300% growth in 2024, we're expanding the team and will be hiring a Strategy Programme Manager to help take HeliosX to the next level. With new categories and new markets on the horizon, this is an exciting opportunity to join a leading digital healthcare business in hyper-growth mode.

The Programme Manager will lead high impact, cross functional initiatives that drive the business forward, ensuring successful delivery in a fast paced, high growth environment. This role is critical in aligning diverse stakeholders across Operations, Tech, Product, Clinical and marketing, ensuring project success and positive business outcomes. The role requires strong leadership, strategic thinking, and operational excellence to deliver complex projects while navigating ambiguity, shifting priorities, and regulatory changes impacting our business.

This is a permanent, full time position. The successful candidate will have a hybrid working arrangement, with 1-2 days per week based on site at our office in Central London.

What you'll do

• Lead high stakes, cross functional projects from discovery to delivery, ensuring business priorities are met
• Drive alignment across teams with different workflows and priorities to ensure timely and high quality delivery
• Ensure rigorous tracking of project milestones, timelines, and dependencies while driving accountability across teams
• Build and maintain deep, trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across the business to ensure alignment and buy in for strategic initiatives
• Act as a thought partner to project sponsors, challenging assumptions and providing expert advice to drive smarter decisions
• Support the leadership team by creating clear project roadmaps, identifying risks early, and offering solutions to mitigate them
• Refine and implement best in class project management systems, including tooling, processes, roles and responsibilities, and metrics to improve efficiency and delivery across teams
• Foster a culture of operational excellence and continuous improvement, ensuring all projects follow structured methodologies and maintain high standards
• Maintain focus on prioritisation, ensuring the team remains aligned on high impact work and avoid directions.

What you'll bring to HeliosX

• Strong experience in programme management, ideally within fast paced, high growth environments such as consulting, tech, consumer health, or e-commerce
• Proven track record of delivering complex, cross functional projects, with multiple stakeholders, in ambiguous and fast changing environments
• Experience managing projects across a wide range of functions, including Product, Operations, Tech, marketing and Clinical
• Expert in project planning, resource allocation, timeline management, and risk management
• Comfortable in data and reporting, analysing and presenting project performance metrics, dashboards and insights to senior leaders (experience with tools such as Metabase, Amplitude, or similar would be advantageous)
• Strong analytical problem solving and critical thinking skills to identify issues early and provide effective solutions under pressure
• Comfortable navigating in ambiguity and driving projects forward even in uncertain or changing business conditions
• Ability to be resilient and maintain momentum in the face of setbacks and conflicting priorities.

Life at HeliosX

At HeliosX, we want to improve healthcare for everyone, and to do this we need a team of brilliant people who share that ambition. We are currently a diverse team of engineers, scientists, clinical researchers, physicians, pharmacists, marketeers, and customer care specialists committed to our mission - but we need more talented folks to join us, if we want to achieve our global ambitions!

Aside from working with our all-star team, here are the other benefits of coming on board:

• Generous equity allocations with significant upside potential
• 25 Days Holiday (+ all the usual Bank Holidays)
• Private health insurance, along with extra dental and eye care cover
• Pension scheme
• Enhanced parental leave
• Cycle-to-work Scheme
• Electric Car Scheme
• Free Dermatica and MedExpress products every month, as well as family discounts
• Home office allowance
• Access to a Headspace subscription, discounted gym memberships, and a learning and development budget

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