Location: Blend your time working remotely and at our Cardiff office

Responsible to: Innovation Adoption Director

Salary: £68,770

Hours: Full-time (37.5 hrs per week)

Term: Permanent

About the role

Come and join our Senior Management team at Life Sciences Hub Wales! Working closely with our Senior Leadership Team and Board, you'll play a pivotal role in building and delivering a pipeline of innovation assessments and adoption projects for better health and wellbeing in Wales.

We're seeking an individual who can work with a team of talented individuals to deliver our digital care and precision medicine programmes.  We’re focused on the adoption of transformative innovation, identifying promising opportunities, supporting system change, and delivering a staged pipeline of innovation.

This role will be integral to supporting our Innovation Adoption Director in leading a team to accelerate the adoption of innovative solutions for better health and wellbeing in Wales. You’ll be developing and implementing an effective strategy to identify and deliver key programmes meeting the needs and demands of stakeholders by proactively seeking and assessing opportunities offered by industry and matching to health and social care needs. This role is varied and forward thinking, requiring expertise in leading a team to successfully deliver project and programme management in the public sector environment. At a tactical level there is a focus on genomics, diagnostics, advanced therapies, artificial intelligence, big data and predictive analytics.

As a member of our Senior Management Team, you'll also be focused on planning and delivering programme delivery and business objectives, which include:

  • Supporting the identification of unmet health and social care challenges and opportunities for innovative solutions, informing the focus of our innovation and adoption support services, programmes, and projects.
  • Impacting on internal and external barriers to innovation adoption.
  • Supporting transformational change across health and social care innovation.
  • Embedding innovation within the culture of the health and social care sector.

If you're passionate about contributing to a great workplace and supporting the success of our team, we encourage you to apply.

Working Hours

We pride ourselves on being a flexible employer.  Blend your time working remotely and also at our offices in Cardiff Bay.  Spending time in-person with your team and other colleagues will be key in this leadership role.

We ask all colleagues to be present in person at least twice a week at our office and to attend key meetings, training, or other priority events face-to-face. You'll also spend quality time collaborating with stakeholders and project partners.

A bit about you

In this important role, you’ll be a strong leader used to driving change in a challenging environment. You'll love to work with a variety of stakeholders and always have the health and wellbeing of the people of Wales as your primary objective. You have a “can-do” attitude and love coming up with practical solutions to  problem-solving. You’re a people person and enjoy supporting and developing your team and others within the organisation on their career journey.

We would also really like you to be:

  • Experienced in strategy development and operational delivery within a complex, multi-stakeholder environment to achieve targets, aims and objectives.
  • Skilled in developing and translating strategy into programme delivery plans.
  • Experienced in leading and developing people, resources, and processes to ensure plans are properly executed delivering the expected results, identifying issues or barriers early and implementing remedial action.
  • Experienced in shaping and delivering highly effective engagement across a wide range of stakeholders.
  • Skilled in convening, leading and participating in multi-stakeholder collaborative innovation programmes and projects

Why work for Life Sciences Hub Wales? 

We're a friendly and driven team working with inspiring partners from industry, academia and the health and social care sector enabling innovative solutions to reach more people more quickly.

  • Flexible and supportive working culture
  • Supportive work-life balance with a generous holiday entitlement - 30 days pro-rata annual leave plus additional public holidays
  • Pension scheme supported by an employer contribution of 11%.

Apply now!

Click here to download the full job description. To apply, email us at careers@lshubwales.com with a completed equal opportunities form, your up-to-date CV and a supporting statement (no more than two pages long) explaining how you meet the essential criteria for this role and why you feel you might be the best person for this exciting opportunity.

  • We will need your application no later than 12pm on 27 January 2026.
  • Interviews will be held on 10 & 11 February 2026 at our Cardiff Bay office.

For details on how to apply and if you would like an initial informal discussion about this role, please contact Rhodri Griffiths, Innovation Adoption Director on rhodri.griffiths@lshubwales.com.