Programme Manager – Retail Media Platform (8m FTC)

Blue Light Card; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 54,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Hybrid working

Private Medical Insurance

Pension scheme

Annual bonus

EV charging onsite

On-site gym

Flexible hours

Job summary

Blue Light Card is growing and seeking an eight‑month fixed‑term Programme Manager to lead the ads platform build and data reporting workstreams. You’ll own the programme plan, maintain milestones, and align data, engineering, product and commercial teams to move forward together.

You don’t need to be a technical specialist, but you’ll understand how engineering and product teams work best and bring best practices to an evolving framework.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering complex, multi‑team programmes with clear sequencing and dependencies.
• Background working across product, engineering, data and business teams in an Agile setting.
• Ability to explain technical concepts clearly to non‑technical audiences.
• Excellent stakeholder skills with senior leadership visibility.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the end-to-end programme plan across the ads platform and data workstream.
• Manage sequencing and dependencies across data, engineering, product and commercial teams.
• Coordinate delivery with Technical Product Managers and squad leads at sprint level.
• Spot risks, blockers and delivery gaps early and resolve them.
• Create a single source of truth for programme status with regular planning and reporting.

Skills

Programme management

Agile / Scrum

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Risk management

Job description

Blue Light Card is growing and seeking an eight‑month fixed‑term Programme Manager to lead the ads platform build and data reporting workstreams. You’ll own the programme plan, maintain milestones, and align data, engineering, product and commercial teams to move forward together.

You don’t need to be a technical specialist, but you’ll understand how engineering and product teams work best and bring best practices to an evolving framework.