Senior Manager - Financial Services (Banking), Programme Leadership

DELOITTE LLP; Manchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in Manchester seeks a professional to lead significant projects in their Major Programmes practice. The role demands expertise in programme leadership and stakeholder management within large-scale transformations. The candidate should possess strong communication skills, project management experience, and the capability to influence and build relationships with stakeholders at all levels. This is a full-time position offering opportunities for career growth and professional development.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in delivering technology-led transformations.
• Experience structuring work and leading teams to success in ambiguous situations.
• Commercial awareness in professional service environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams to design and deliver significant projects.
• Support business development by building client relationships.
• Contribute to internal practice development and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Leading components of large‑scale business / organisational transformation programmes

Experience in project management and PMO

Stakeholder management and relationship building

Communication and presentation skills

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Are you energised by the opportunity to tackle some of the world's biggest and most complex social, environmental and economic challenges? Do you get excited about working with a diverse and global team of experts and experienced professionals? Are you passionate about leading organisations through transformation to deliver value and sustainable benefits to their customers, clients and staff? If so, Deloitte's Major Programmes practice could be the place for you!

Deloitte's Major Programmes practice (part of the wider Human Capital offering) is currently recruiting individuals with industry and technical skills that can strengthen our capability to address complex programme challenges and create conditions for success for the world's most impactful programmes. Major Programmes typically involve the delivery of a major capital asset or infrastructure through large, complex programmes that require significant investments and span multiple years. Historically, most programmes of this scale and impact fail to deliver value, on time and on budget.

Our market‑leading next‑generation delivery approach, Programme Aerodynamics, replaces siloed, conventional, linear thinking with multi‑disciplinary capability to help our clients deliver their most critical and demanding programmes while reinforcing Deloitte's commitment to purpose‑led change. Programme Aerodynamics is a fundamentally new approach bringing together mindsets, expertise, methodologies, and solutions from Strategy, Programme, Digital, Programme Leadership and Human‑Centred Transformation to better anticipate, shape and manage change in Major Programmes. It empowers project leaders to effectively anticipate and manage change, risk and uncertainty across a programme's lifecycle, shaping its success.

Your role

• Take the lead in partnering with clients to solve complex issues, through leading teams to design, shape and deliver strategically significant projects and programmes
• Work with a range of senior stakeholders both internally within Deloitte and in client organisations at all levels, as a subject matter expert on Programme Leadership
• Apply a combination of consulting experience, industry knowledge, tools and technology to anticipate and address programme/portfolio challenges with client and colleague teams
• Lead teams from across different parts of Deloitte, clients and other partners to deliver complex client programmes and critical outcomes
• Support business development by building client relationships, contributing to new business proposals, and taking key roles in industry and account teams
• Contribute to internal practice development by participating in proposition, methodology and point of view development activities, and supporting knowledge capture and sharing
• Demonstrate excellent presentation, facilitation and communication skills across all levels of client and Deloitte stakeholders

Connect to your skills and professional experience

You're curious and natural at taking initiative. We have unique challenges to solve, and often in unique contexts. You should have strong experience in most of the following:

• Leading components of large‑scale business / organisational transformation programmes, using traditional and/or agile methodologies with a strong understanding of digital/technology enabled change
• Experienced in delivering at least one of the following types of programmes: (1) Technology‑led Transformation (2) Digital and/or Cloud transformation (3) Implementation of digital user experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, Cloud‑based ERP and/or other cloud architectures; (4) Regulatory driven transformation
• Significant experience in project management and PMO (Project Management Office), including development of plans across workstreams and management of critical paths, dependencies, reports and risks in a project
• Experience of structuring work and leading teams to successful outcomes, even in ambiguous situations
• Industry knowledge and deep expertise in programme leadership, bringing lessons learnt and insights to clients and the wider Deloitte group
• Experience in stakeholder management, influencing skills, and relationship building
• Commercial / contract and risk awareness, either in a professional service environment or as a customer of a professional services partner
• Excellent communication and presentation skills across all levels of an organisation including senior management
• Mentoring, coaching and managing others in project or consulting environments, role‑modelling collaborative working and teaming

Preferred experience in most aspects of large‑scale programmes

• Programme strategy; definition and planning, delivery strategy, business case development, mergers and acquisitions
• Programme set up; delivery/operating model design, commercial model structure, definition and mapping of programme outcomes
• Programme delivery; project and programme management, programme controls/assurance, risk management, or operational readiness
• Programme recovery; executive level engagement, recovery planning, or experience reshaping programmes

Personal independence & regulation

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

We lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values guide every decision we make and action we take, helping us deliver impact where it matters most.