IT Programme Manager

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an IT Programme Manager at our Lakeside, Hampshire site.

The role:

• As a Programme Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will take responsibility for leading and managing the delivery of complex IT programmes.
• Day-to-day, you’ll manage large scale IT projects, driving business transformation, and ensuring successful adoption of initiatives across the organisation which embraces all aspects of business, design, functional and technical build, business acceptance and solution implementation.
• Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of IT business programmes, ensuring alignment with strategic business objectives.
• Develop and maintain detailed programme governance arrangements, plans, including schedules, budgets, and resource allocation.
• Ensure that realistic estimates of costs, timescales and resource requirements within the programme are agreed and conduct the active monitoring of projects against these criteria, taking corrective action as necessary.
• Manage cross-functional teams, including IT, business analysts, and external vendors, to ensure cohesive and successful project delivery.
• Identify and mitigate risks and issues that may impact programme delivery, ensuring initiative-taking resolution.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is fully remote. Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Essential experience of the IT Programme Manager:

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt to changing business needs.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, with a focus on delivering results.
• Extensive project management experience within a technology environment.
• Personable and professional leadership style that is customer focused, and always strives to achieve a win-win scenario despite having to resolve conflict and take complex decisions on behalf of the Group.
• Experience managing ERP projects or programmes is desirable.

Qualifications for the IT Programme Manager:

• Programme management qualification such as MSP (Managing Successful Programmes).
• Project Management qualified such as IS Project Management (Higher Level), MAPM - Member of the Association for Project Management, PMP - Project Management Professional, Practitioner Certificate in PRINCE2, Chartered IT Professional (CITP), SCRUM Master, PMI ACP, APMG AgilePM.

Security Clearance:

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held.

What we offer:

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance.
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+.
• Employee share scheme.
• Employee shopping savings portal.
• Payment of Professional Fees.
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave.
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day’s paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity.
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock International has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world for over a century. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal. We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.