Enterprise Programme Manager - Strategic Initiatives

Butterworths Limited Company; Farringdon; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

RELX is seeking an experienced Enterprise Programme Manager to bring governance, structure, prioritisation, and visibility to high-priority business initiatives, including the AI First Initiative. You will coordinate across business and technical teams to convert priorities into clear plans and measurable outcomes.

You will establish ownership, milestones, and success measures, while driving rapid delivery and harmonising data-driven progress reporting for senior leadership decisions.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in strategic planning and execution within a complex organisation.
• Proven ability to manage projects in a technical environment with AI/data delivery awareness.
• Ability to create structure where none exists and drive work to measurable outcomes.
• Strong analytical skills and commercial judgement to shape plans.
• Comfort working with engineers and translating technical concepts into business value.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain a unified framework to track, manage, and report on business initiatives, with potential automation and AI integration.
• Assess initiatives against strategy, value, urgency, effort, and capacity to guide leadership on where to focus.
• Define ownership, milestones, dependencies, risks, and success measures and drive rapid governance implementation.
• Own priority projects from scoping to delivery, coordinating business and technical stakeholders for tangible outcomes.
• Advance the AI First Initiative by prioritising high-value use cases and maintaining momentum through the AI Champions group.
• Apply pragmatic, delivery-focused approaches to remove roadblocks and keep work moving.
• Develop an integrated, data-driven view of progress for Senior Leadership to enable faster, better decisions.
• Act as a trusted contact for initiative status, distilling issues into concise recommendations and actionable steps.

Skills

Strategic planning

Programme management

Stakeholder management

AI transformation

Data-driven decision making

Job description

Are you ready to bring structure and momentum to high-priority initiatives across the business? Would you like to help accelerate our AI transformation while turning complex priorities into measurable outcomes?

About our Team

LexisNexis Reed Tech & Intellectual Property Solutions, our mission is to advance humanity by bringing clarity to innovation. Our solutions empower innovation leaders to turn IP into competitive advantage. We help innovators make informed decisions, increase productivity, ensure regulatory compliance, and ultimately achieve superior results. LexisNexis Reed Tech & Intellectual Property Solutions is part of LexisNexis Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of information-based analytics and technology solutions.

About the Role

The Enterprise Programme Manager brings governance, structure, prioritisation, and visibility to business initiatives across the organisation while directly managing priority projects, including the AI First Initiative. You will work across business and technical teams to turn priorities into clear plans, remove obstacles, and deliver measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain a unified framework to track, manage, and report on business initiatives, creating a clear single source of truth and an approach that can be progressively automated, leveraging AI wherever practical.
• Assess initiatives against strategic priorities, business value, urgency, effort, and available capacity, helping leadership decide where to focus and what not to do.
• Define clear ownership, milestones, dependencies, risks, and success measures, and drive rapid implementation of an effective governance approach.
• Own selected priority projects from initial scoping through delivery, coordinating business and technical stakeholders and ensuring tangible outcomes.
• Drive the AI First Initiative: Manage and accelerate our internal AI transformation activity, working with engineers and business stakeholders to assess and prioritise high-value use cases and maintain momentum through the AI Champions group.
• Apply a pragmatic, delivery-focused approach: remove roadblocks, make sensible trade-offs, and step into the detail when needed to keep work moving.
• Develop and automate an integrated, data-driven view of progress, priorities, risks, decisions, and outcomes, giving the Senior Leadership Team the information needed to make faster, better decisions.
• Act as a trusted point of contact for initiative status, distilling complex issues into concise recommendations and ensuring decisions translate into clear actions, owners, and outcomes.

Requirements

• Significant experience in strategic planning and execution, programme management, business operations, project delivery, transformation, consulting, or a comparable role within a complex organisation.
• Experience managing projects in a technical environment, with a solid understanding of AI, data delivery, and automation.
• A proven ability to create structure where none exists, solve complex or ambiguous problems, and personally drive work through to measurable outcomes.
• Strong analytical, and commercial judgement, with experience using metrics to shape plans and knowing when to analyse further, escalation or simply get something done.
• The candidate should be comfortable working with engineers, contributing to rapid prototyping discussions, and translating technical concepts into practical business outcomes.
• First-class stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships, distil complexity, and influence senior leaders without relying on formal authority.
• An intellectually curious, pragmatic, and low-ego approach, with the confidence to ask questions, challenge the status quo constructively, and operate at pace through ambiguity.

Work in a Way That Works for You

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

Working Pattern

Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career.

We are delighted to offer country specific benefits.

We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form or please contact 1-855-833-5120.

We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers, enabling them to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive. Our purpose is to benefit society by developing products that help researchers advance scientific knowledge; doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients; lawyers promote the rule of law and achieve justice and fair results for their clients; businesses and governments prevent fraud; consumers access financial services and get fair prices on insurance; and customers learn about markets and complete transactions. Our purpose guides our actions beyond the products that we develop. It defines us as a company. Every day across RELX our employees are inspired to undertake initiatives that make unique contributions to society and the communities in which we operate.