Programme Manager

Hybrid; City Of London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in London is looking for a Programme Manager to spearhead strategic projects. The successful candidate will lead and manage multiple programmes, ensuring alignment with client expectations, timelines, and quality standards. Excellent communication skills, strong leadership, and a proactive approach are essential. Experience in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies is preferred. This position offers opportunities to work on complex projects and drive impactful results.

Qualifications

• Strong experience as a Programme Manager.
• Proficient in managing multiple stakeholders and programmes.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead large strategic programmes and drive delivery towards objectives.
• Manage multi-disciplinary teams and oversee project execution.
• Ensure effective stakeholder communication and alignment.

Skills

Project management experience

Leadership skills

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Agile and Waterfall methodologies

Job description

As Programme Manager you will be part of the Strategic Projects Group servicing our clients on programme and project delivery. You will be tasked with a range of strategic programmes, owning their entire life cycle from inception to planning, execution and closure. These can range from implementing 3rd party software rollout of new capabilities, new market entries, to opening new operational centres for our clients.

You will play a crucial role in mobilising, developing, planning, and delivering innovative strategic programmes. You will drive these programmes to success, ensuring objectives are clearly defined and met within time, cost and quality constraints. You will collaborate with clients and stakeholders to deliver impactful outcomes and realise significant benefits.

This role requires a Programme Manager with a depth of experience in driving delivery, setting expectations and direction to create a high performing team that delivers.

You will be an enthusiastic and dynamic professional who is passionate about delivering great product and would be excited by the challenges associated with a wide range of complex strategic programmes.

You are comfortable working independently, collaborating with teams in various locations, time zones and managing several concurrent programmes. You will have a strong character and a willingness to try new things and “get stuck in”. You will be an excellent communicator, have strong organisational skills and have the confidence to challenge stakeholders where necessary.

Key responsibilities include:

Lead large strategic programmes encompassing multiple critical workstreams. Drive the progress of these programmes towards key business objectives, utilizing multiple techniques to plan, own and deliver the end-to-end programme and project plans, milestones and timelines.

Manage multi-disciplinary teams in the analysis, planning and execution of delivery work that maximise return on investment and pace of delivery to underpin the desired outcomes, against scope, value, budget, and time

Structure and set up programmes ensuring adherence to the appropriate governance, risk, and guardrails. Utilise the appropriate planning techniques and delivery methodologies, and align the programmes to our project and risk frameworks.

Oversee the delivery of all projects and workstreams within the delivery teams and monitor each project’s health to ensure they are all progressing as appropriate.

Ensure that the projects and programmes deliver the promised functionality to agreed quality standards.

Lead in the proactive management and development of effective and influential working relationships, ensuring Senior Client’s needs are understoodely delivery expectations are understood across the internal stakeholder groups.

Collaborate with and manage stakeholders to ensure alignment of work and expectations, tensions in priorities and risk and dependencies are managed to deliver the right outcomes for clients.

Proactively disseminate relevant information to all key stakeholders.

Conduct weekly leadership updates for senior stakeholders, ensuring that programme and progress is communicated effectively, and the true status is clearly understood by all parties.

Ensure stakeholders understand the project management lifecycle and framework, providing training if necessary

Proactively identify and manage risks and issues across all projects and programmes

Communication:

Ensure timely and accurate governance and oversight of all milestones, RAIDS, and governance materials.

Plan for, and proactively disseminate upwards and outwards communication and regular status reports to stakeholders.

Take ownership of functional reporting

Team Management:

Lead and manage a team of project managers and implementation resources. Provides guidance, mentorship, structure, and support to project teams, ensuring their effectiveness, productivity, and professional growth

Managers understand and use project management principles

Identify skills gaps and training opportunities for direct reports

Proactively identify and implement team process improvements

Act as role model for project management best practice; both technically and behaviourally.

Job requirements

Requirements:

Strong relevant project management experience, ideally with experience as a programme manager

Strong leadership skills, with a focus on meeting program and project objectives, seeking trade-offs and alternatives when required to ensure program/project success

Self-motivated and driven with the ability to work independently in a fast-paced team

Highly organised and skilled at coordinating efforts between multiple teams across multiple time zones

Proficient in managing multiple programmes and stakeholders simultaneously

Ability to build strong relationships across the business, with clients, project teams, and 3rd party vendors

Ability to manage stakeholders and communicate effectively at all levels - clearly and succinctly conveying ideas and options

A proactive and action-oriented approach, driving progress via self and others

Demonstrates the ability to manage multiple tasks and competing priorities

Exceptional project management skills, extremely organized with attention to detail

Excellent oral and written communication skills, as well as great interpersonal and teamwork skills

Ability to work well under pressure

Experience working with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies

Experience with issue, risk, resource and dependency management

Experience of managing & achieving tight deadlines with the appropriate quality

Experience working with 3

Strategic and creative thinking is valued

Willingness to travel on an ad hoc basis – as required

The above list of duties is not exclusive or exhaustive and the post holder will be required to undertake tasks that are reasonably expected within the scope and grading of the post.