Programme Manager

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Portsmouth; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking an IT Programme Manager to lead complex IT programmes. The role involves managing large scale IT projects and driving business transformation. Candidates should possess strong project management experience, analytical skills, and qualifications such as MSP and PMP. The role is remote and offers a competitive salary plus benefits.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme with life assurance

Access to a Digital GP and annual health check

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

Holiday Trading benefit

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering activities

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Extensive project management experience within a technology environment.
• Experience managing ERP projects or programmes is desirable.
• Personable and professional leadership style.

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of IT business programmes.
• Manage cross-functional teams to ensure cohesive project delivery.
• Identify and mitigate risks impacting programme delivery.

Skills

Analytical skills

Critical thinking

Leadership

Project management

Ability to manage priorities

Education

MSP (Managing Successful Programmes)

PMP - Project Management Professional

Prince2 Practitioner Certificate

MAPM - Member of the Association for Project Management

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Job Title: IT Programme Manager
Location: Remote
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF63169

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an IT Programme Manager at our Lakeside, Hampshire site.

The role
As a Programme Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will take responsibility on leading and managing the delivery of complex IT programmes.

Day-to-day, you’ll manage large scale IT projects, driving business transformation, and ensuring successful adoption of initiatives across the organisation which embraces all aspects of business, design, functional and technical build, business acceptance and solution implementation.

• Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of IT business programmes, ensuring alignment with strategic business objectives.
• Develop and maintain detailed programme governance arrangements, plans, including schedules, budgets, and resource allocation.
• Ensure that realistic estimates of costs, timescales and resource requirements within the programme are agreed and conduct the active monitoring of projects against these criteria, taking corrective action as necessary.
• Manage cross-functional teams, including IT, business analysts, and external vendors, to ensure cohesive and successful project delivery.
• Identify and mitigate risks and issues that may impact programme delivery, ensuring initiative-taking resolution.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is fully remote.

Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Essential experience of the IT Programme Manager:

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt to changing business needs.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, with a focus on delivering results.
• Extensive project management experience within a technology environment.
• Personable and professional leadership style that is customer focused, and always strives to achieve a win-win scenario despite having to resolve conflict and take complex decisions on behalf of the Group.
• Experience managing ERP projects or programmes is desirable

Qualifications for the IT Programme Manager:

• Programme management qualification such as MSP (Managing Successful Programmes).
• Project Management qualified such as IS Project Management (Higher Level), MAPM - Member of the Association for Project Management, PMP - Project Management Professional, Practitioner Certificate in PRINCE2 , Chartered IT Professional (CITP), SCRUM Master, PMI ACP, APMG AgilePM.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) .

What we offer

Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance

Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave

Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement

‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [e-mail] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

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