Location: Manchester, London, Bristol, Leeds
Working Style: 3 days a week onsite
Salary: Up to £80,000 + Benefits
About the Role
We're looking for an experienced Programme Manager to lead a portfolio of strategic initiatives within a large-scale Data Transformation programme.
This is a senior leadership role responsible for translating transformation strategy into successful delivery and measurable business outcomes. You'll oversee multiple workstreams, manage programme investment and resources, and ensure projects deliver tangible value for the organisation.
Working closely with senior stakeholders across technology, data, finance, and business functions, you'll provide governance, direction, and leadership to drive successful programme outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
Lead a portfolio of projects within a major transformation programme.
Maintain a cross-programme view of delivery, risks, dependencies, and opportunities.
Drive programme planning, prioritisation, and investment decisions.
Lead Project Managers, Product Owners, and delivery teams to achieve agreed outcomes.
Establish effective governance frameworks and reporting structures.
Escalate and resolve programme-level issues to maintain delivery momentum.
Provide senior leadership teams with clear, evidence-based programme updates.
Manage programme budgets, forecasts, financial commitments, and investment reporting.
Support funding allocation and prioritisation across competing initiatives.
Ensure investment aligns with strategic priorities and agreed milestones.
Identify financial risks, opportunities, and trade-offs.
Support business case development and investment governance.
Resource Management
Oversee programme-wide resource planning across internal teams and external partners.
Identify resource and capability gaps.
Facilitate prioritisation decisions where demand exceeds available capacity.
Ensure the right skills and leadership capability are available to meet programme objectives.
Establish and manage a robust benefits realisation framework.
Define and monitor programme-level KPIs.
Track delivery against business cases and expected outcomes.
Work with stakeholders to measure business impact and drive value-focused delivery.
Challenge and intervene where initiatives are underperforming.
Stakeholder Management
Build trusted relationships with senior business and technology leaders.
Provide clear recommendations to support strategic decisions.
Represent the programme within governance and investment forums.
You'll bring:
Significant experience leading complex business, technology, or data transformation programmes.
A proven track record of managing multiple concurrent projects and workstreams.
Strong financial management experience, including budgets, forecasting, and investment governance.
Experience developing programme-level resource plans and managing delivery capacity.
Strong understanding of business cases, benefits management, and value realisation.
Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills at senior leadership level.
Experience managing programme risks, issues, and dependencies.
The ability to communicate complex information in a concise, executive-ready format.
Strong leadership experience managing cross-functional teams.
Data, digital, or technology transformation programmes.
Large-scale or regulated environments.
Portfolio management involving both internal teams and external partners.
Benefits realisation frameworks and performance measurement.
Experience with Jira, Confluence, Power BI, and Microsoft 365.
What's on Offer?
Opportunity to lead a high-profile transformation programme.
Significant exposure to senior stakeholders and strategic initiatives.
Flexible hybrid working.
Competitive salary and benefits package.
A chance to shape and deliver meaningful organisational change.
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