Regional Programme Manager

Royal Mail Group; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading postal service provider in the UK is seeking a Regional Programme Manager to lead transformational change within their operations. This critical role involves managing a team, collaborating with various stakeholders, and ensuring the successful deployment of a regional transformation strategy. Candidates should possess strong project management skills and a proven track record in leading teams. This position offers competitive benefits, including family support and wellbeing resources.

Benefits

Enhanced maternity pay

Discounts on groceries and holidays

Generous sick pay

24/7 wellbeing support services

Qualifications

• Proven leadership of large teams in a matrix environment.
• Extensive stakeholder engagement and management.
• Experience managing large-scale portfolio deployment plans.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Deployment Managers to deliver sustainable change.
• Own and deploy the integrated transformation plan regionally.
• Collaborate with central functions to deliver financial and people benefits.

Skills

Project and programme management capabilities

Emotional intelligence

Stakeholder management

Data-driven decision-making

Business change management

Education

Programme management qualifications or equivalent experience

Job description

About the Role

Are you ready to lead transformational change across a dynamic and evolving organisation? We\'re looking for a Regional Programme Manager (RPM) to drive the deployment and realisation of our integrated transformation strategy across a designated region.

Reporting to the Head of Portfolio, you will lead a team of Deployment Managers, working collaboratively with senior operational leaders and central transformation teams. You\'ll challenge conventional thinking, integrate strategic initiatives, and ensure the successful execution of a regional transformation plan that delivers sustainable results.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing team of Deployment Managers to deliver sustainable change and realise programme benefits.
• Own and deploy the integrated transformation plan regionally, incorporating national and local project requirements.
• Champion the transformation narrative across the region, fostering engagement and minimising disruption.
• Collaborate with central functions to deliver financial and people benefits, including headcount reductions.
• Align transformation plans with annual business plans, managing change load and integration.
• Provide input to deployment design of critical projects and share learnings to enhance future deployments.
• Establish regional programme governance and assurance aligned with national activity.
• Monitor and adjust the critical path, resources, and funding to optimise deployment.
• Customise regional reporting on progress against deliverables.
• Ensure the team is well-resourced, trained, and directed to deliver high-quality outputs.
• Maintain delivery data sources and tools to support efficient structural revisions.

Key skills

• Strong project and programme management capabilities.
• High emotional intelligence and collaborative working style.
• Excellent influencing and stakeholder management skills.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to set clear direction.
• Data-driven decision-making and prioritisation.
• Skilled in managing cost, quality, and time across multiple projects.
• Deep understanding of business change management and communication strategies.

Experience

• Proven leadership of large teams in a matrix environment.
• Extensive stakeholder engagement and management.
• Experience managing large-scale portfolio deployment plans.

Qualifications

Programme management qualifications or equivalent significant experience.

Why Join Us?

This is a critical leadership role with wide-reaching impact across our regional and central functions. You\'ll be at the heart of our transformation journey, helping shape the future of our operations and delivering real, measurable benefits.

Extra Benefits

• Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave
• Discounts and offers - there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills*.
• Supportive and generous company sick pay
• Your Wellbeing - you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life. From your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice. It\'s free, and it\'s for everyone.
• *Available only to perm employees

Next Steps

The next stage of the selection process will be an interview consisting of competency based and role specific questions. We plan to hold interviews w/c 30th Sept.

Trust is the foundation of Royal Mail. We aim to be transparent about the qualities we seek and what a career with us entails, building trust from the start of your journey with us. Your interview is the first step, and we want you to shine. To help you prepare, we\'ll provide your interview questions in advance, so you can have your best examples ready. At Royal Mail Group, we value trust and our people.

Royal Mail Group is committed to inclusion and representing the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all individuals. As a proud Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant, we especially encourage applications from the Armed Forces community, including cadet instructors and spouses/partners.

We are committed to ensuring an inclusive recruitment process. If you require any adjustments to support you during the hiring process, please discuss these with your recruiter when contacted.

We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.

For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here: https://www.internationaldistributionsservices.com/en/about-us/

Closing Date: Friday 18th Sept 25 Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.

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