Job Description
The Programme Manager is responsible for the strategic planning, execution, and overall governance of a portfolio of interdependent programmes, projects and initiatives, ensuring they align with the organisation's overarching strategic objectives and deliver tangible business outcomes. The role focuses on delivering large-scale transformation across the business, managing risks and dependencies across projects, and ensuring successful benefits realisation. In addition, the Programme Manager is expected to drive the commitment to Developing people and delivering what matters for customers and colleagues.
Key Tasks / Areas of Responsibility
- Programme Strategy and Planning: Define and manage the overall programme structure, ensuring alignment with organisational strategy and investment priorities. Develop and maintain the integrated programme roadmap, key milestones, and critical success factors. Create business cases in conjunction with Business Leads and Finance.
- Design: Oversee the design of end‑to‑end solutions, ensuring that the proposed operating model approach is robust, scalable, and fully aligned with the future state vision of the business.
- Delivery: Drive the successful end‑to‑end execution of the programme portfolio, ensuring all projects deliver defined scope, quality, and benefits realisation in line with the integrated programme roadmap and overarching strategic objectives.
- People and Customer Focus: Establish and embed the core principle of Developing people and delivering what matters for customers and colleagues across all programme activities, using this focus to prioritise work and measure success.
- Governance and Reporting: Establish and operate effective programme governance mechanisms, including steering committees and clear decision‑making processes. Provide clear, timely, and accurate reporting on programme status, risks, and benefits realisation to the Head of Transformation and executive stakeholders.
- Financial and Resource Management: Manage the overall programme budget, track expenditure, and ensure financial forecasts are accurate. Direct and manage the workload of Project Managers and other dedicated programme resources.
- Risk and Dependency Management: Proactively identify, assess, and manage inter‑project dependencies, risks, and issues that could impact the programme's successful delivery. Implement mitigation strategies to maintain programme momentum.
- 3rd Party Management: Oversee and manage all external vendors, contractors, and third‑party resources critical to the programme's successful delivery, ensuring performance aligns with contractual agreements and project requirements.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Act as the primary point of contact for all executive sponsors and key business stakeholders. Partner with stakeholders, manage expectations and communication to ensure alignment and adoption of programme outputs.
- Methodology and Best Practices: Champion best practices in programme and project management methodology across the organisation.
- Team Leadership and Mentorship: Mentor and coach direct reports, including Project Managers, fostering a high‑performing, collaborative team environment.
- Transformation Function Development: Contribute to the continuous improvement of the transformation function's processes, tools, and capability.
- Compliance and Policy Adherence: Ensure all programme activities comply with regulatory requirements and internal policy standards.
Remuneration and Benefits
Your package will include an excellent basic salary, company car or cash alternative, attractive bonus scheme based on individual and company targets, and Private Medical Insurance.
- Holiday trading
- Enhanced maternity and paternity package
- Free life assurance of 4 x salary on joining the pension scheme
- Vitality at Work
- Free on‑site parking
- Discounted shopping from hundreds of retailers, including up to 5% off supermarket shopping
- Milestone days off to celebrate with family and friends
- Free eye tests and support for glasses for employees who regularly use a screen as part of their job
Additional Information
Joining DPD can lead to not just a stable job but also a career. DPD prides itself on recognising and developing talent alongside a desire to promote from within. As a continually growing and evolving organisation, we are proud to offer a great number of development and promotion opportunities.
