Programme Manager: Strategy-to-Delivery Leader

Greene King; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

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Job summary

Greene King is seeking a Programme Manager within the Group Planning and Delivery team to lead high-impact programmes from strategy to action. You will shape clear plans, align stakeholders, and drive delivery of complex change with pace and governance.

A strong focus on data-led reporting, financial oversight and measurable benefits will be essential as you embed change into BAU and maximise value from group investments.

Qualifications

• Develop and maintain end-to-end programme plans (scope, timelines, milestones, deliverables and dependencies) to ensure strategic programmes and projects are delivered on time.
• Line manage a multi-disciplined team, proactively leading the delivery of projects within a programme and/or portfolio.
• Lead cross-functional delivery teams and stakeholders across the business to drive alignment, collaboration, and clear ownership throughout the programme/project lifecycle.
• Manage a portfolio of projects, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and goals, resource allocation, and prioritisation based on business value.
• Establish effective governance, reporting, performance metrics and risk management to track progress, manage issues, and support timely decision-making on strategic priorities.
• Deliver sustainable people, process and technology change by applying structured change management and ensuring smooth transition of outcomes into business-as-usual (BAU).
• Own programme financials by building budgets, monitoring spend and producing robust cost/benefit and ROI analysis to maximise value from group investment.
• Define, track, and analyse key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics related to project delivery, outcomes and benefits.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain end-to-end programme plans (scope, timelines, milestones, deliverables and dependencies) to ensure strategic programmes and projects are delivered on time.
• Line manage a multi-disciplined team, proactively leading the delivery of projects within a programme and/or portfolio.
• Lead cross-functional delivery teams and stakeholders across the business to drive alignment, collaboration, and clear ownership throughout the programme/project lifecycle.
• Manage a portfolio of projects, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and goals, resource allocation, and prioritisation based on business value.
• Establish effective governance, reporting, performance metrics and risk management to track progress, manage issues, and support timely decision-making on strategic priorities.
• Deliver sustainable people, process and technology change by applying structured change management and ensuring smooth transition of outcomes into business-as-usual (BAU).
• Own programme financials by building budgets, monitoring spend and producing robust cost/benefit and ROI analysis to maximise value from group investment.
• Define, track, and analyse key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics related to project delivery, outcomes and benefits.

Skills

Programme management

Stakeholder management

Budgeting

Governance

Change management

Data analytics

Leadership

Risk management

Cross-functional leadership

Agile & Waterfall

Job description

Greene King is seeking a Programme Manager within the Group Planning and Delivery team to lead high-impact programmes from strategy to action. You will shape clear plans, align stakeholders, and drive delivery of complex change with pace and governance.

A strong focus on data-led reporting, financial oversight and measurable benefits will be essential as you embed change into BAU and maximise value from group investments.