Programme Manager in Newcastle upon Tyne

As a Programme Manager, you will be responsible for the successful delivery of complex transformational change initiatives across the Strategic Portfolio, ensuring alignment to strategic objectives and delivering measurable business value. You will provide leadership, direction, and oversight across multiple workstreams, ensuring delivery is coordinated, governed effectively, and optimised across time, cost, quality, and risk.

You will lead and develop a team of Project Managers, setting clear expectations, building capability, and driving high performance. Operating within a matrix environment, you will engage senior stakeholders across the organisation to shape priorities, resolve dependencies, and ensure delivery remains aligned to organisational strategy.

You will play a key role in translating strategy into executable programmes, influencing decision-making at a senior level, and ensuring that outcomes are sustainable, embedded, and value driven.

About You

You bring strong ownership of programme planning and coordination across multiple projects and workstreams, maintaining clear and robust programme roadmaps. These provide transparency on sequencing, dependencies, and critical milestones, supporting effective decision‐making and delivery confidence across the programme.

With proven programme execution experience, operating fully within governance frameworks you will have effective risk and issue management ensure compliance and visibility throughout the programme lifecycle. Experience delivering complex programmes in matrix or regulated environments is underpinned by a strong understanding of programme governance and benefits realisation.

Strategic influence should be a key strength of yours, able to use insight to constructive challenge, and have well‐formed recommendations to shape decision‐making at senior levels. This is balanced by your ability to retain oversight of detailed delivery, understanding when to engage at pace to resolve issues or provide clarity while keeping a firm focus on strategic objectives.

You possess strong leadership capabilities which enables effective line management and development of Project Managers, through coaching, performance management, and career development.

You should have a strong understanding of delivery methodologies, including Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid approaches, ensures the right approach is applied in the right context. Proficiency in delivery and reporting tools such as MS Project, MS Planner, and Power BI supports data‐driven insight and transparent reporting. This is complemented by a relevant professional qualification, such as PRINCE2, MSP, APM, PMI, or equivalent.

The Newcastle Building Society Group comprises of Newcastle Building Society, Manchester Building Society, Newcastle Financial Advisers and Newcastle Strategic Solutions. Our purpose, connecting our communities with a better financial future inspires and directs our activities.

As an inclusive employer and member owned mutual, we aim to reflect the diverse communities we serve and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We believe everyone should feel valued, respected, and celebrated for who they are, we want colleagues to feel this is a place they belong. A place to be you.

Financial

• Corporate bonus scheme (on target 10%, up to a maximum 15%)
• Pension scheme (up to 9% employer contribution)
• Annual performance related pay reviews
• Colleague mortgage scheme
• Electric car salary sacrifice scheme
• Life assurance (4x salary) and income protection
• Access to our financial advisers
• Access to a range of high street and online discounts

Work/Life Balance

• A 35-hour weekly contract - We are happy to talk flexible working and welcome discussions
• 30 days’ annual leave + bank holidays
• The option to buy and sell up to 5 days’ holiday
• Hybrid working (typically 3 days’ home based)
• Above statutory family leave entitlement - 3 months full pay, 3 months half pay, regardless of gender or route to parenthood

Health and Wellbeing

• Private medical insurance
• Access to a health cash plan through a Medicash scheme
• Access to an employee assistance programme
• Free onsite gym at our Cobalt head office and access to discounted gyms
• Two paid volunteering days each year
• Cycle to work scheme

Recognising there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to recruitment, we’re committed to ensuring every candidate has the opportunity to showcase their full potential throughout the recruitment process. We strive to make our processes as accessible as possible, if there are any ways in which we can provide support or make adjustments, we would love to discuss this with you, you can contact your Recruiter for this vacancy.