Program Governance & Value Realization Lead

Tech Mahindra; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Tech Mahindra is seeking a seasoned Program Governance, Risk & Value Realization Director/Manager to establish and operate a cohesive governance framework for complex business and technology transformations. You will provide independent oversight, integrate governance, risk, finance, and benefits realization, and deliver transparent reporting to senior leadership.

The role requires a consulting mindset, enterprise risk discipline, and the ability to present risk-informed insights across CXOs and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Technology, Business Administration, Finance, or related discipline.
• Master's Degree (MBA or equivalent) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement governance frameworks aligned to organizational and client objectives.
• Establish Steering Committees (SteerCos), governance councils, reporting structures, and decision-making forums.
• Define governance standards, stage gates, review mechanisms, escalation paths, and operating rhythms.
• Drive adherence to program controls, delivery commitments, financial targets, and quality standards.
• Ensure alignment across business, technology, delivery, vendor, and executive stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain integrated RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) frameworks.
• Identify, assess, prioritize, and monitor delivery, technology, operational, financial, compliance, security, and adoption risks.
• Lead risk reviews and facilitate mitigation planning with accountable owners.
• Track remediation progress and ensure timely closure of high-impact risks and issues.
• Escalate emerging concerns proactively and provide leadership with risk-informed recommendations.
• Define business case assumptions, value drivers, success metrics, KPIs, and benefit realization plans.
• Establish mechanisms to measure financial and operational outcomes throughout the transformation lifecycle.
• Track realization of cost savings, productivity improvements, revenue enhancements, customer experience improvements, and strategic outcomes.
• Identify value leakage, benefit shortfalls, execution delays, and ownership gaps.
• Recommend corrective actions to improve realization of anticipated benefits.
• Develop executive dashboards, scorecards, governance packs, and management reports.
• Consolidate delivery performance, financials, resource status, risks, milestones, dependencies, and value metrics into a single program view.
• Translate complex program data into concise, decision-ready insights for CXOs and Steering Committees.
• Provide trend analysis, predictive indicators, and recommendations to improve program outcomes.
• Support audit readiness, compliance requirements, regulatory obligations, and internal control reviews.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to strengthen governance effectiveness and delivery predictability.

Skills

Program Governance

Benefits Realization

Transformation Mgmt

Financial Management

Compliance Assurance

Executive Presence

Strategic Thinking

Problem Solving

Decision Facilitation

Stakeholder Mgmt

Negotiation Skills

Data-Driven Storytelling

Education

Bachelor's Degree

MBA preferred

Job description

Tech Mahindra is seeking a seasoned Program Governance, Risk & Value Realization Director/Manager to establish and operate a cohesive governance framework for complex business and technology transformations. You will provide independent oversight, integrate governance, risk, finance, and benefits realization, and deliver transparent reporting to senior leadership.

The role requires a consulting mindset, enterprise risk discipline, and the ability to present risk-informed insights across CXOs and