Programme Manager 12 Month FTC

IG has been at the centre of retail trading and investment since 1974, when we helped create the market for financial spread betting. Today, we're a FTSE100 fintech operating across five continents, serving over 700,000 clients and handling billions in transactions - built on decades of scale, trust and proof. We didn't pivot to innovation; it's how we've always operated. What that means for the people who work here is real: genuinely complex problems to solve, the technology and resources to tackle them properly, and the kind of scope that’s rare in established businesses. The bar is high - bring a curious and forward-thinking mindset and we'll give you the platform to define what comes next.

The Programme Manager will work directly for the Transformation Director as a core member of the Programme Management Office (PMO), the independent nerve centre for IG's company-wide transformation programme spanning technology modernisation, AI adoption, acquisition integration, operating and organisational model change, and procurement and external spend optimisation. The role is hands-on: running the day-to-day mechanics of governance, reporting and risk management so the Transformation Director can focus on ExCo engagement, sequencing decisions and stakeholder alignment. You’ll work closely with the Transformation Finance Partner and People Partner to ensure cost, benefit, and engagement data feed into a single integrated view. Like the PMO as a whole, the Programme Manager does not own implementation or business outcomes - delivery responsibility sits with initiative owners, and accountability for budgets and benefits remains with the relevant budget owners.

Your role in the Team’s Success

• Orchestrate the transformation programme across workstreams: sequencing activity, tracking progress and surfacing issues for resolution, providing hands-on planning support to individual workstreams where required.
• Own the programme's governance controls on behalf of the Transformation Director; steering group cadence, decision logs, RAID logs and reporting standards - consistent and lightweight, not bureaucratic.
• Maintain the integrated view of milestones, dependencies, risks and expected benefits across initiatives, surfacing overlaps and sequencing conflicts before they become problems.
• Prepare concise, decision-oriented reporting for the Transformation Director, Steering Group and ExCo, translating complex programme activity into clear, honest narratives.
• Manage communication and relationships with initiative owners and workstream leads, coordinating cross-project activity and managing interfaces between projects.
• Support Finance and budget owners to track transformation expenditure, forecast benefits and validate realised savings.
• Constructively challenge initiative owners where plans, forecasts or reported status are not sufficiently robust.
• Provide hands-on support to initiatives at risk, while keeping delivery accountability with initiative owners.
• Support the delivery of change management activity across workstreams, owning the tracking and reporting of adoption and behavioural change.
• Coordinate other project managers and workstream support resources as the PMO scales.

What you’ll need for this role

• Experience managing large, complex, multi-workstream programmes, ideally spanning technology, operating model and organisational change.
• Comfortable operating in both Agile and traditional delivery environments, adapting governance to the workstream rather than applying one method rigidly.
• Proven track record delivering programmes to specification, on time and within budget, with credible evidence of benefits realisation.
• Certified Project/Programme Manager (PRINCE2, APM, MSP or equivalent).
• Experience in technology transformation, risk and governance within a regulated or fast-paced global organisation and is comfortable with ambiguity.
• Able to influence, advise and hold accountable senior and C-level stakeholders without eroding their ownership of delivery.
• Strong analytical capability across budgets, forecasts, savings and business cases.
• A clear, confident communicator, verbally and in writing, able to establish credibility quickly across a broad range of stakeholders.
• Highly organised and hands-on, with a bias towards decisions and outcomes over process and administration.

How we work

• We think like a start-up, but we deliver like a FTSE 100 — so the bar is high, and we won't pretend otherwise. We work hybrid, which means three days in the office.
• Own the ambiguity: You'll work through it without a playbook, and get real ownership over how you solve it — excellence isn't optional here, it's the standard you hold yourself to.
• Question everything: Curiosity is our currency — question what exists, and you'll have the platform to define what comes next.
• Deliver at pace: The pace is real, but so is the momentum: deliver at speed, unpick hard problems, and help define the future of fintech.
• Raise the bar: Take your craft seriously, and you'll be surrounded by people who take theirs just as seriously — that's the legacy you're building on, and adding to.

The perks

• Competitive salary
• Flexible Benefits Package on top of your salary (12%)
• Private medical cover for you and your family
• Life insurance
• Contribution to gym memberships
• 25 Days holiday, with 1 additional day off to celebrate your Birthday & 2 additional days off a year for voluntary work (28 in total)
• The option to buy or sell holiday days
• Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning Platform
• A comprehensive global and local onboarding process
• Employee-led LGBTQ+, Women’s, Black and Parents & Carers networks with an annual budget for organising events & projects that foster an open, diverse and inclusive culture
• Option to participate and create ESG initiatives based on IG Brighter Future Fund
• Enhanced primary (maternity), secondary (paternity), and shared parental pay and leave, as well as a range of support and benefits for parents
• Study package to support completion of the CGI qualification (if part qualified).

Join us for this exciting journey.