Programme Manager (VN2534) in London

About Marex

Marex Group plc (NASDAQ: MRX) is a diversified global financial services platform providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients across energy, commodities and financial markets. The group provides comprehensive breadth and depth of coverage across four core services: clearing, agency and execution, market making, and hedging and investment solutions. It has a leading franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, with access to 60 exchanges. The group provides access to the world’s major commodity markets, covering a broad range of clients that include some of the largest commodity producers, consumers and traders, banks, hedge funds and asset managers. With more than 40 offices worldwide, the group has over 2,300 employees across Europe, Asia and the Americas.

Change Management at Marex operates as a strategic enabler of enterprise-wide change, reporting into the Global Head of Transformation and Change. It is responsible for the governance, oversight and delivery of change initiatives across all business lines and control & support functions globally. The team ensures that change is executed in a controlled, transparent, and value-driven manner. Within this function, the Project Execution team plays a critical role in mobilising and delivering complex programmes and projects. These include acquisitions, legal entities rationalisations, regulatory, transformational and cross-functional initiatives. The team ensures that all projects are delivered within agreed scope, time, cost, and quality parameters, while minimising business disruption.

Role Summary

The Programme Manager is accountable for the successful delivery of change Programmes and projects, with alignment with organisational strategy and objectives. Acting as the single point of coordination, the Programme Manager provides leadership and oversight from implementation from start to finish, partnering with the business and control & support functions throughout to ensure sustainable handover to business-as-usual (BAU) at project close. This role combines hands‑on facilitation, driving delivery, influencing stakeholders, and embedding change across the organisation.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall leadership and accountability for the delivery of the assigned programme(s), ensuring objectives are met within the specified time frame and under established governance.
• Develop and maintain the programme plan, ensuring alignment of all constituent projects and workstreams.
• Communicate programme deliverables, plans, risks, and issues to project and programme sponsors, steering group, and other key stakeholders.
• Act as the central communication point for programme-level stakeholder engagement, ensuring the right people are informed at the right time.
• Manage and support Project Managers (PMs), ensuring project plans are defined, actively managed, and aligned to programme objectives.
• Report on overall programme status and individual project progress to governance forums, sponsors, and senior leadership.
• Oversee and ensure effective delivery of all projects within the programme, including project plans and schedules, monitoring progress against time, cost, and quality targets, managing dependencies, risks, and resources across the programme, escalating and resolving issues at programme level, ensuring effective resolution and decision‑making.
• Oversee the transition of programme deliverables into BAU, ensuring integration and closure. Drive business/operational readiness for sustainable ways of working post go‑live by defining the programme’s Target Operating Model and “target state”, identifying and managing required business changes, overseeing delivery and execution (e.g., process/technology implementation), ensuring operational readiness across impacted areas.
• Ensure compliance with relevant financial regulations, internal policies, and audit requirements throughout the programme lifecycle.
• Drive continuous improvement by capturing lessons learned and embedding best practices across the programme and wider organisation.

Standard Company Responsibilities

• Ensuring compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under the FCA.
• Adhere to the operational risk framework for your role ensuring that all regulatory or company determined parameters are complied with.
• Role model for demonstrating highest level standards of integrity and conduct and reflecting Company Values.
• At all times complying with the FCA’s Code of Conduct.
• To ensure that you are fully aware of and adhere to internal policies that relate to you, your role or any other activities for which you have any level of responsibility.
• To report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/or your supervisor as required.
• To escape risk events immediately.
• To provide input to risk management processes, as required.

Competencies, Skills and Experience

• Significant experience in programme management as project professional and/or as a manager implementing business changes with a project‑mindset.
• Experience managing complex business change projects with people, process and technology changes, with track record of successful implementation to time, cost and quality.
• Sound experience of implementing new products/new business projects, especially in financial services (10-15 years).
• Proactive problem‑solver who is tenacious at chasing down actions and resolutions to completion.
• Leads, motivates, and manages teams (including Project Managers and cross‑functional groups), building strong relationships and influencing others to achieve programme objectives.
• Demonstrates strong governance, risk management, and stakeholder engagement skills, with excellent communication and influencing abilities.
• Sound background knowledge of financial services and infrastructures.
• Preferably degree educated or with equivalent professional experience in project and change management.
• Professional qualifications in programme and/or project management (e.g., MSP, PRINCE2, PMP, APMG) are highly desirable or skillset in multiple project management methodologies such as waterfall and Agile.
• Desirable - experience developing and delivering business change strategies/plans, using change impact assessment or other change management techniques, with track record of achieving benefits realisation.
• Desirable – experience in identifying target operating models and driving organisational changes.
• Desirable – experience of post‑acquisition integration implementation.

Competencies

• Provide direction for the programme, aligning projects to organisational strategy, anticipating future challenges and adapts plans (when required) to achieve long‑term objectives.
• Applies robust governance, risk, and issue management across multiple projects and ensures compliance with internal frameworks, policies, and regulatory requirements.
• Builds and maintains strong relationships with sponsors, senior leaders, and cross‑functional teams, whilst managing expectations and negotiates effectively to resolve conflicts.
• Leads, motivates, and develops Project Managers and delivery teams, delegating effectively, providing guidance and support while holding others accountable for results.
• Communicates complex information clearly and persuasively, tailoring messages to diverse audiences.
• Drives delivery of programme objectives within agreed time, cost, and quality parameters, maintaining accountability for outcomes, drives progress, and resolves issues proactively.
• Analyses complex situations and makes sound decisions under pressure.
• Champions continuous improvement, embeds lessons learned, and supports business readiness.

Conduct Rules

You must:

• Act with integrity.
• Act with due skill, care and diligence.
• Be open and cooperative with the FCA, the PRA and other regulators.
• Pay due regard to the interests of customers and treat them fairly.
• Observe proper standard of market conduct.
• Act to deliver good outcomes for retail customers.

Company Values

• Respect: Clients are at the heart of our business, with superior execution and superb client service the foundation of the firm. We respect our clients and always treat them fairly.
• Integrity: Doing business the right way is the only way. We hold ourselves to a high ethical standard in everything we do – our clients expect this and we demand it of ourselves.
• Collaborative: We work in teams – open and direct communication and the willingness to work hard and collaboratively are the basis for effective teamwork. Working well with others is necessary for us to succeed at what we do.
• Developing our People: Our people are the basis of our competitive advantage. We look to “grow our own” and make Marex the place ambitious, hardworking, talented people choose to build their careers.
• Adaptable and Nimble: Our size and flexibility is an advantage. We are big enough to support our client’s various needs, and adaptable and nimble enough to respond quickly to changing conditions or requirements. A non‑bureaucratic, but well controlled environment fosters initiative as well as employee satisfaction.

Marex is fully committed to being an inclusive employer and providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all. We will provide reasonable adjustments to remove any disadvantage to you being considered for this role. We value the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the company. We welcome applications from candidates returning to the workforce. Also, Marex is committed to avoiding circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or would like us to do anything differently to help you, please include it in your application.