Programme Manager - Digital Transformation & PMO

ASCO Group; Aberdeen City; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

ASCO Group is seeking an experienced Programme Manager to establish and manage the planning, governance, financial control and reporting framework across a major multi-year transformation programme. You will work closely with the Programme Director and Business Architects to provide oversight across system deliveries, ensuring progress, budgets and resources are monitored and controlled.

The role requires strong coordination across teams, the ability to manage RAID logs, change control

Qualifications

• Proven experience establishing and managing programme planning, governance, controls and reporting across multiple concurrent projects.
• Demonstrable experience in PMO or programme control within multi-project business change or systems transformation.
• Experience of programme financial management, including budget control, forecasting and reporting against approved budgets.
• Experience preparing reports for Steering Committees, Boards or senior management teams.
• Experience of resource planning across permanent employees and contract personnel.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the programme roadmap, integrated delivery schedule and milestones, ensuring changes are reviewed and approved.
• Manage programme governance, planning and reporting, providing accurate information to support effective decision-making.
• Maintain the programme RAID log and change control process, ensuring risks, issues and dependencies are managed for tolerated changes.
• Monitor programme budgets, forecasts and actual expenditure against the approved financial envelope, highlighting variances.
• Prepare Steering Committee reports and Board dashboards covering programme progress, milestones, financial performance, benefits and key exceptions.
• Support individual system deliveries through project plans, RAID logs and progress reporting, escalating risks to cost, schedule and scope.
• Coordinate resource planning, recruitment, onboarding and business analyst allocation across concurrent projects, working closely with the Business Architect.
• Maintain programme governance documentation, including the RACI, decision-making framework, project delivery lifecycle and contract, licence and renewal registers, liaising with Procurement as required.
• Support the development of business cases and benefits baselines, tracking and reporting benefits through implementation and post-go-live reviews.
• Monitor post-implementation system usage and usability, working with change managers to identify improvements, maintain the fast-follow backlog and capture lessons learned to support continuous improvement.

Skills

Programme management

Governance

Budget control

Stakeholder management

PMO

Risk management

Change control

Reporting

Education

PM qualification (APM PMQ / PMI PMP/PgMP / PRINCE2)

Tools

Power BI

ERP systems

Job description

ASCO Group is seeking an experienced Programme Manager to establish and manage the planning, governance, financial control and reporting framework across a major multi-year transformation programme. You will work closely with the Programme Director and Business Architects to provide oversight across system deliveries, ensuring progress, budgets and resources are monitored and controlled.

The role requires strong coordination across teams, the ability to manage RAID logs, change control