Programme Manager

Overview

In this role you will lead large digital programmes, ensuring delivery aligns with client strategy and delivers maximum value. You will bridge delivery teams and senior UK leadership, shaping outcomes for major client engagements. You’ll work across pre-sales and execution while driving efficient, scalable delivery and governance. This is a chance to influence transformation in a global, collaborative environment and grow with a passionate senior delivery team. You will operate at the intersection of strategy, delivery excellence, and client partnerships to create measurable impact.

Pay / Benefits

• Hybrid working
• Career advancement with international mobility
• Learning and development with access to tools and experts

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end delivery of a programme from pre-sales through inception to full lifecycle
• Coordinate across multiple programme teams to maximise efficiency
• Ensure planning, execution and completion of projects align with client strategic goals
• Oversee budget tracking and cost-effective use of resources
• Coach teams in Agile practices and principles
• Establish governance processes across the programme
• Lead client-facing activities from bid phase to delivery
• Communicate with client stakeholders up to C-suite level
• Build and manage multi-functional delivery teams with budget responsibilities
• Plan, forecast, and manage uncertainty across the programme
• Manage dependencies and obstacles to delivery

Key requirements

• Experience delivering 5m–10m digital transformation and technology-enabled change programmes in a client-facing environment
• Deep career in a digital or software delivery discipline
• Proven ability to communicate persuasively with senior stakeholders, including CXOs
• Experience leading and evidencing impact beyond task completion
• Ability to synthesize approaches (agile, Lean UX, Lean Startup, Design Thinking, Design Sprints, programme methods) to fit challenges
• Experience supporting winning new work: listening to client needs, designing approaches, planning and cost modelling, writing proposals
• Stakeholder management
• Leadership and team coaching
• Collaborative mindset
• Agile methods (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, LeSS, DAD)
• Lean UX/Lean Startup
• Design Thinking/Design Sprints

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