Operations Lead - London, United Kingdom - Genomics England

Genomics England

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Company Description

Genomics England partners with the NHS to provide whole genome sequencing diagnostics.

We also equip researchers to find the causes of disease and develop new treatments - with patients and participants at the heart of it all.

Our mission is to continue refining, scaling, and evolving our ability to enable others to deliver genomic healthcare and conduct genomic research.

We are accelerating our impact and working with patients, doctors, scientists, government and industry to improve genomic testing, and help researchers access the health data and technology they need to make new medical discoveries and create more effective, targeted medicines for everybody.

Job Description:

We are seeking an Operations Lead for our Newborns Programme that will play a crucial part in overseeing the operational aspects and performance management of the NHS trusts participating in the Generation Study and to resolve potential issues affecting delivery of their activities.

You will also lead 3-4 Operations Managers who will support with these deliverables.

Please note that this role is based on a
Fixed Term Contract until June 2025

Everyday responsibilities include:

Work with the sites and programme team to identify and implement solutions to issues for delivery and make recommendations for new processes or tools required to support effective delivery of the study.
To ensure there is an efficient process in place for timely dispatch of equipment and study materials to sites, with oversight of the payments and agreements with external suppliers.
Work with the logistics and programme team to identify quality issues with samples or data and work with the sites to resolve these.
To set up and run a study management group/operational meeting of Principal Investigators (PIs) at each of the trusts to identify challenges, and issues with delivery and solutions for these.
To work with the service manager and service desk to ensure processes are in place and working to enable prompt resolution of queries from sites or participants, as well as system access requests.
To ensure the relationships are maintained with senior leadership roles at our chosen sites and enable sustained commitment to the programme.
Manage and lead an inclusive, high performing team, ensuring that we have the right skills in place to deliver our mission
Manage and ensure good governance and compliance with all relevant requirements including budgets, workforce plan, and all data and IT requirements

Skills and Experience for Success:

An excellent communicator with strong relationship building, influencing and problems solving skills
A robust leader with experience in ideally managing a similar health study or programme in either academia or industry
Flexibility when adapting and embedding change
Organised, self motivated and dedicated to the overall strategic delivery of the programme
Experienced in setting up new processes, MI and performance

Qualifications:

A relevant degree and/or experience is desirable.

Additional Information

Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself, but in order to support our people, we're continually improving our benefits package.

We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals, as well as offering a benefits package including:

30 days' holiday (plus bank holidays), with additional days for long service awards
A generous pension scheme of up to 15% combined contribution
Life Assurance (3 x salary)
Individual learning budgets for every colleague, a Blinkist account and a wide variety of courses on our portal
A wide variety of wellness benefits including Gympass, a Headspace account, free weekly Yoga classes
Enhanced maternity & paternity benefits
Blended working arrangements

Talk to our Talent Team and find out how a career with Genomics England will benefit you.

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Genomics England operates a blended working model as we know our people appreciate the flexibility. We expect most people to come into the office 2 times each month as a minimum. However, this will vary according to role and will be agreed with your team leader. For some people this is 1 day a quarter, for others it is several days a week. There is no expectation that staff will return to the office full time unless they want to.

The exception would be some of our roles that would require you to be on site full time e.g., lab teams, reception team.

Our teams and squads have, and will continue to, reflect on what works best for them to work together successfully and have the freedom to design working patterns to suit, beyond the minimum.

Our office locations are Canary Wharf, Cambridge and Leeds.

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