Institute Strategic Manager

About the Role

Applications are invited for the post of Institute Strategic Manager for the Barts Cancer Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry.

Reporting to the Faculty Director of Operations and partnering closely with the Institute Director, you’ll be the senior Professional Services lead driving strategy, culture and operational excellence. As a key member of the Institute’s senior management team and Executive Board, you will help define strategic priorities, develop policy, and ensure the effective delivery of Institute, Faculty and University objectives. You’ll lead strategic planning across research, education, finance, workforce, estates and governance; using data driven insight to influence decisions, optimise resources and ensure robust financial and operational performance. You will drive change initiatives, strengthen partnerships, and ensure excellent governance and compliance, while fostering a collaborative and inclusive culture across academic and professional services teams.

About You 

Candidates will be experienced, inclusive and collaborative senior leaders with a strong track record in complex organisations, ideally with experience in the higher education sector. You will bring excellent influencing and analytical skills, sound financial acumen, and a commitment to fostering a positive culture that supports the success of staff and students, alongside the ability to translate strategy into effective operational delivery.

About The Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry

The Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry offers international excellence in research and teaching and supports clinical service for a population of unrivalled ethnic diversity in East London and the wider Thames Gateway. At the forefront of medical research and education, with research themes in cancer, cardiovascular medicine, inflammation, trauma and population health. Queen Mary is in the top 10 universities in the UK for medicine and dentistry and 7th in the world for research citations for medicine in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025. In the Complete University Guide 2026, we are ranked first in London for dentistry and second in London for medicine.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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