Program Manager

Undisclosed; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 91,000; Full time

Job summary

Undisclosed in the United Kingdom is recruiting for a senior DAO Programme Manager to lead a team of project managers and business analysts across multiple locations. You will own delivery strategy, budgets, and governance while coordinating with product teams and SMEs to align plans with strategic objectives. The role emphasizes change management, risk control, and stakeholder engagement to realise benefits.

Qualifications

• Broad and comprehensive understanding of concepts and principles across multiple disciplines.
• Extensive programme management and delivery leadership experience in global change programmes.
• Strong leadership and coaching abilities across diverse teams and locations.
• Experience delivering change within regulated financial institutions and with risk, security, and audit stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own governance and delivery strategy for the programme and its roadmap across multiple workstreams.
• Lead Project Managers / Scrum Masters / PMOs to ensure delivery within budget, scope and benefits.
• Manage intake, costs, and budgets; develop pricing and financial reporting against KPIs/OKRs.
• Provide escalation and risk management, and ensure change control processes are followed.

Skills

Programme leadership

Change management

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

Communication skills

Problem solving

Strategic thinking

Leadership

Financial services domain knowledge

Risk management

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

Duration: contract to run until 30/04/2027

Rate: up to £492.20 p/d Umbrellainside IR35

DAO Programme Managers are responsible for the leadership of a team of project managers, business analysts and contingent project resources across multiple locations. The role will also be responsible for execution in one of the key Data related programmes.

The successful applicant will enjoy working as part of a dynamic team on a high profile and exciting / engaging programme of work.

Governance and Committee Memberships

• Programme Steering Commitees

Key accountabilities include:

• Owning delivery execution within the programme as well as having holistic oversight of the product development roadmap and the adoption plans
• Accountable for programme delivery strategy and approach across a series of capabilities / projects or component activities, building stakeholder buy-in around plans, commitments and changes
• Accountable for programme reporting, governance and benefits realisation / OKR management to all relevant stakeholders / committees in accordance with THE CLIENT’s Change Framework
• Leading Project Managers / Scrum Masters / PMOs on a high-profile global delivery to ensure commitments are met across budget / benefits / schedule / scope
• Proactively partnering with Product and SMEs in the annual planning and forecasting process
• Accountable for the intake of all new work and the evaluation of new change requirements, facilitating integrated triage to identify requirements, scope and budget
• Drive stakeholder discussions related to delivery strategy, scope, capabilities and budget
• Owning and managing resource plans with Project Managers / Scrum Masters, producing/overseeing indicative pricing and detailed budgets that match a description of deliverables and actual work effort
• Serving as an escalation point to manage risks, issues and dependencies. Provide solutions-oriented consultation to integrated team leads, proactively controlling scope and the change control process, and collaborating with stakeholders to strategically identify and implement solutions
• Manage negotiations and oversee the management and service agreement monitoring of TP contracts
• Using approved change management tools e.g. JIRA and Confluence, to establish delivery dashboards and reports to ensure financial health, live deliverables and performance against KPIs / OKRs
• Partnering with other global Programme Managers and Programme Office to implement the approved DAO vision for delivery management and contribute to the future evolution of the discipline
• Establish effective controls, procedures and quality assurance processes to promote consistency of outputs across all deliverables in line with the Change Framework and THE CLIENT’s Risk and Controls framework
• Managing and mentoring Project Management / Scrum team members, including resolving escalations, setting and managing performance goals, coaching individual career growth paths and balancing workloads

Leadership & Teamwork

• Provides leadership, sets team performance expectations, and monitors progress
• Overall responsibility for supervising a team, managing delivery and reporting for complex assignments

Chapter overview

• Data Change Management owns the skills required to understand, plan, implement and communicate change effectively. The types of change can be relatively broad, and include organisational, technology, data or process changes.
• Data Change Management will typically work extensively with other teams to assemble the expertise required to deliver a given outcome, but with direct accountability for:
• Decision-making to plan and implement the change
• Governance support to ensure change is communicated, adheres to best practices and evidences decision‑making appropriately
• Analysts to understand and shape the change required

Experience

Broad and comprehensive understanding of concepts and principles within multiple disciplines or a fast changing discipline

Business / Commercial knowledge

The role requires a comprehensive understanding of how all value units / products / regions / legal entities collectively integrate, alongside a comprehensive knowledge of the industry in order to contribute to the commercial objectives of THE CLIENT.

Leadership

Management responsibilities through subordinate managers performing diverse activities (cross discipline e.g. Finance, Technology, Banking)

Problem Solving

Covers a wide range of activities that require evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual and qualitative information in complicated perhaps novel situations

Is proactive in developing ideas, continuously searching for improvements in techniques which add value to the business and has full responsibility for implementation.

Accountability / decision making

Latitude to make decisions outside of established procedures but within a policy framework. Broad guidelines are available. Role implements strategy set by others.

Strategic Responsibility

Creates business plans for own teams and expected to contribute into value unit / region / product / legal entity strategy.

Communication

• The role requires the ability to guide, persuade and influence others through the developed skills of communication and diplomacy.
• The job is likely to be involved in both internal and external negotiations which will have a major impact on the function, and possibly the entire business unit.

Attributes:

• Programme leadership with strong change discipline: Own governance, scope/benefits, RAID/dependencies, stage gates, and audit‑ready documentation; drive decisions and delivery pace across multiple workstreams and global delivery teams.
• Proven experience in platform and data migration programmes (incl. SAS): Lead option analysis, target‑state design and roadmap; deliver large‑scale/big data migrations including environment readiness, testing and parallel runs, cutover and back‑out planning.
• Stakeholder & adoption leadership: Translate between business, engineering, operations, risk/security and vendors; manage expectations, training and operational handover to ensure changes land and stick.
• Exceptional understanding of SAS migration and dependencies: Manage remediation planning, data lineage and reconciliation, and post‑migration assurance to ensure control and integrity.
• Strong financial services domain knowledge: Experience delivering change within regulated financial institutions, working effectively with risk, security, operations and audit stakeholders.
• Extensive programme management / delivery leadership (8+ years): Track record managing large, complex, global change deliveries across multiple workstreams, delivering to agreed scope, timeline, budget and benefits.
• Ability to develop change capability: Coach and train teams to uplift delivery standards, discipline and ways of working.
• Ability to lead and motivate high‑performing global teams: Effective leadership across multiple locations and cultures within a matrix organisation.
• Strategic and solution‑oriented thinker: Comfortable managing complexity, balancing significant change and multiple competing priorities with strong attention to detail.
• Agile delivery experience: Experience applying Agile methodologies in programme and product development; Agile certification(s) (e.g. SAFe) advantageous.
• Impeccable communication skills: Strong written, verbal and presentation skills with proven ability to engage stakeholders from ExCo/Managing Director level to analysts.
• Proficient in spoken and written English

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!