Programme Manager

BAM UK & Ireland; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Matched pension

Flexible working policy

Job summary

BAM UK & Ireland seeks an experienced Programme Manager on a 2-year FTC to lead large-scale transformation programmes across the UK&I. The role blends home working with office-based work, under BAM’s flexible policy, and requires close collaboration with IT, SAP and SI partners to drive successful delivery.

You will define and govern programme plans, manage dependencies, and deliver timely reporting to Directors and stakeholders while maintaining robust governance across releases.

Qualifications

• Experience leading large-scale transformation programmes.
• Proven ability to manage governance, reporting and risk.
• Experience delivering multi-country SAP-enabled programmes.

Responsibilities

• Own governance for the programme and ensure adherence to principles.
• Maintain and monitor the release plan across levels 1–3.
• Produce consolidated programme reporting and risk management.
• Coordinate with Release Managers and System Integrators on dependencies.
• Collaborate with IT workstreams to ensure SAP S/4HANA integration against the critical path.

Skills

Leadership

Governance

Planning & reporting

SAP S/4HANA experience

Multi-country delivery

MS Project / SAP planning toolsets

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

MS Project

SAP planning toolsets

Job description

What if your next step led further than you thought?

With a reputation built over 150 years, BAM has the depth, scale and momentum to offer you more than a next step. We offer you a path. One that can take you across sectors, into leadership, or even around the world. We invest in development because we want our people to stay and grow. Wherever you want to go, we’ll help you get there.

BAM UK & Ireland is recruiting an experienced Programme Manager on a 2-year FTC contract. This position will involve a mixture of working from home and any of our UK&I offices. BAM operates a flexible working policy.

Making Possible

• Holds responsibility for the overall programme plans, as well as tracking and consolidating individual workstream plans and status, and the provision of this information to the programme leadership team securing BAM as well as system integrator deliverables.
• Support and manage the Governance and PMO operating models, scope control & internal programme portfolio management
• Defines with the support of SI Program manager reporting standards, manages project and programme progress reporting, risk & issue management, workshop facilitation, and external governance.
• Manages the internal and external dependencies (with the weekly planner's team) across the programme including the critical path dependency plan.
• Accountable for the creation, maintenance and governance of the programme level release plans from Level 1 – Level 3 top-down and bottom-up, ensuring the plans are consolidated, resource loaded, critical path defined and dependencies identified across releases.
• Develop strong relationships with team members, vendors and partners including - · Managing resources and ensuring timely delivery of programme, supervising and coordinating activities of the parties involved in the programme, preparing reports and updating Directors and other stakeholders about the programme, resolving issues with management and stakeholders, confirming successful delivery at completion
• Work closely with the IT workstream (Development Lead and Solution Architect) to ensure successful integration of S4 HANA system in line with critical path activity

Responsibilities

• Responsible for overall governance and methodologies for the programme.
• Manages and maintains the overall release plan and ensures that Release Managers and System Integrators adhere to the agreed planning principles and timelines.
• Ensures that reporting standards are adhered to as well as the timely production of consolidated programme level reporting.
• Manages the programme RAID process ensuring that risk & issue maintenance standards are adhered to, acts as 1st escalation at programme level.
• Maintains the programme scope and internal programme portfolio management process to ensure release plan integrity maintained.
• Accountable for running the internal programme checkpoint and stage gate governance processes, highlighting areas of potential risk to the plan achievability, to time, cost and quality.
• Works closely with the Release Managers and System Integrators to ensure adherence to programme governance and methodology.
• Works closely with the Group IT to ensure cross-programme dependencies are tracked and managed.
• Analysis of the plans for timeliness of activities, utilisation of resources, slippage against baseline and management of internal & external dependencies and for the creation of appropriate reporting to the plan owners recommending corrective action where necessary.
• Development and operation of planning standards, process, tools and reporting across a large
• Interfacing & reporting externally to the required stakeholders and internally on the Programme on a regular and timely basis.
• Production of planning-based metrics.
• Seeks to mitigate and/or escaleprogramme risks & issues to protect the plan

Your team

This position will involve a mixture of working from home and any of our UK&I offices. BAM operates a flexible working policy.

What’s in it for you?

In addition to an attractive salary and benefits package, including private healthcare and matched contributory pension scheme, we support further personal growth and career development.

What do you bring to the role?

• Ability to operate and move between strategic and operational level thinking.
• Excellent leadership and people management skills.
• Experience with large-scale business transformation programmes enabled by SAP S/4HANA in a multi country operation.
• Expert in developing scalable governance & methodologies building on industry best practices
• Design and implementation of various planning and reporting processes.
• Advanced project planning, controlling and management skills (expert level) including MS project and SAP planning toolsets.
• Support the development of workstream plans and integrate into an overarching Programme plan.
• Experience of delivering on multi country - multi process Business, IT and SAP & S/4 HANA programme.

About BAM

Building a sustainable tomorrow. That’s our mission and our promise at BAM. It’s how we engineer vital infrastructure and construct high-quality buildings as one of the largest construction companies in Europe.

We strive to create an environment where everybody feels welcome and valued. We’re on an exciting journey to employ the best talent to join us regardless of social background, race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or other characteristics.

The application process

BAM is committed to ensuring a fully inclusive recruitment and onboarding process, so if at any time you feel you may need any reasonable adjustments, do not hesitate to speak with one of our team, and we will do our best to support you. "Join us in Making Possible"