Programme Manager

Arrow Global; Manchester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Arrow Global is seeking a highly organized Program Manager to lead and mature our new Data group’s delivery cadence. You will translate business demand into clear plans, align deliverables to priorities, and keep cross-functional teams moving at pace.

The role requires strong program discipline, collaboration with data stewards, architecture, and engineering, and a track record of delivering complex data initiatives in fast-paced environments.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading complex data programs or transformations.
• Strong governance, planning, and reporting discipline.
• Ability to translate business priorities into actionable work plans.

Responsibilities

• Own the data program plan: roadmap, milestones, dependencies, risks, and delivery cadence.
• Translate business priorities into an actionable book of work with stakeholders.
• Drive prioritization across platforms and data products, balancing value and capacity.
• Coordinate data platforms, data stewards, quality, architecture, and engineering to onboard data products.
• Monitor progress, SLAs, blockers, and escalate to keep delivery on track.
• Build governance, reporting, and executive communications on outcomes, resources and budget.
• Improve the operating model to increase throughput and reduce cycle time.
• Coordinate with consumer, supplier, and technology teams in a matrixed environment.

Skills

Program management

Stakeholder management

Data delivery

Cross-functional leadership

Governance

RAID

Job description

We are seeking a highly organized, outcome-driven Program Manager (PM) to play a foundational role in our newly formed Data group. This role requires program leadership, operating discipline, stakeholder management, and a strong understanding of data delivery in a complex, fast-paced environment. The PM will translate business demand into clear plans, align deliverables to business priorities, and keep cross-functional teams aligned, focused, and moving at pace. Working closely with Data Stewards, Data Quality, Data Architecture, and Data Engineering, the PM will help move data products through the \"data machine\" with predictability, transparency, and speed. This is a hands-on, high-impact role for a technical PM who thrives in ambiguity, creates order from complexity, and is excited to help shape a new operating model and delivery cadence from the ground up. About the role

• Own the data program plan: roadmap, milestones, dependencies, risks, and delivery cadence
• Partner with the Head of Data to translate business priorities and Consumer demand into an actionable book of work
• Drive prioritization across roughly twenty-five platforms and 100-125 data products, balancing value, readiness, complexity, and capacity
• Coordinate platform Suppliers, Data Stewards, Data Quality, Data Architecture, and Data Engineering to onboard data products through the 'data machine'
• Monitor progress, SLAs, and blockers, driving issue resolution and escalations to keep delivery on track
• Build governance, reporting, and executive communications covering outcomes, resources, budget, and performance
• Improve the operating model by increasing throughput, compressing cycle time, and scaling delivery
  Proven experience managing complex programs or transformation initiatives, ideally within data, technology, financial services, or platform operations
• Strong program management discipline: planning, controls, governance, RAID, dependency management, and SteerCo-level reporting
• Skilled at translating business priorities into delivery plans across consumer, supplier, and technology teams
• Able to coordinate multiple stakeholders and delivery functions in a matrixed environment
• Working understanding of data lifecycle concepts: onboarding, cataloging, quality, stewardship, pipelines, and standards; sufficient to coordinate technical teams effectively
• Commercially minded, comfortable balancing value, risk, urgency, capacity, and delivery trade-offs
• Resourceful self-starter with strong ownership, communication, and stakeholder management skills
• Comfortable operating amid ambiguity and helping stand up a new function from the ground up