Senior Programme Manager

SONICOM; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

43 days' annual leave

Generous pension schemes

Flexible working policy from day one

On-site leisure facilities

Cycle-to-work scheme

Season ticket loan

Job summary

Imperial College London is seeking a Senior Programme Manager to join the Transformation Portfolio Team, supporting the Great Environment Transformation Portfolio across South Kensington and White City campuses. You will lead multi-disciplinary teams and drive major campus infrastructure initiatives.

You will provide strategic oversight, governance and reporting across workstreams, manage dependencies and risks, and collaborate with senior academic and professional services leaders to realise

Qualifications

• A recognised qualification in project and/or programme management such as MSP/APM/PRINCE2 is essential.
• Experience delivering programmes within complex environments is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead the South Kensington redevelopment programme and interdependent projects.
• Provide strategic governance across multiple workstreams.
• Coordinate with senior academic and professional services leaders.
• Drive planning, reporting and decision-making at senior levels.

Skills

Programme leadership

Stakeholder management

Strategic communication

Risk & dependency management

Education

MSP/APM/PRINCE2

Job description

Are you an experienced programme management professional who thrives on delivering complex portfolios and driving meaningful change? Do you enjoy leading multidisciplinary teams, influencing strategic outcomes and working across large-scale transformation initiatives? If so, we would love to hear from you.

We are seeking a Senior Programme Managerto join Imperial's Transformation Portfolio Team, supporting the Great Environment Transformation Portfolioin your first assignment. This strategic portfolio brings together activity across South Kensington and White City campuses, enabling Imperial to grow its academic endeavour through world-leading campus infrastructure. Property creates the spaces people see. Transformation makes those spaces work - connecting people, processes, technology and ways of working to bring them to life. Together, we turn investment in our physical environment into the conditions for academic growth, innovation and impact.

What you would be doing

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a major strategic portfolio and help shape the future environment of a world-leading university.

What we are looking for

As Senior Programme Manager, you will play a leading role in delivering the South Kensington redevelopment programme and interdependent projects across the portfolio, while providing leadership to the Portfolio Team. You will provide strategic oversight across multiple workstreams, ensuring objectives, timelines, and quality standards are achieved while aligning delivery with institutional priorities. Using structured programme and project management approaches, you will maintain effective governance, manage risks and dependencies, and drive successful outcomes across a broad range of initiatives.

Working closely with senior academic and professional service leaders, and project teams, you will lead planning and delivery activity across the portfolio, manage resource alignment, and provide clear, insightful reporting to support effective decision-making at senior levels. You will also drive stakeholder engagement, champion continuous improvement and support the realisation of programme benefits and long-term organisational impact.

We are looking for someone with significant programme management experience, strong leadership and communication skills, and the ability to build effective relationships across a wide range of teams and disciplines. You will be comfortable operating strategically while maintaining oversight of delivery detail, with experience leading large-scale change initiatives and influencing across multiple levels of an organisation.

A recognised qualification in project and/or programme management such as MSP/APM/PRINCE2and experience delivering programmes within complex environments are essential.

What we can offer you

• The opportunity to continue your career at a world-leading institution and be part of our mission to use science for humanity.
• Benefit from a sector-leading salary and remuneration package (including 43 days' annual leave and generous pension schemes).
• Access to a range of workplace benefits including a flexible working policy from day one, generous family leave packages, on-site leisure facilities and cycle-to-work scheme.
• Interest-free season ticket loan schemes for travel.
• Be part of a diverse, inclusive and collaborative work culture with various staff networks and resources to support your personal and professional wellbeing .

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About Imperial

Welcome to Imperial, a global top-ten university where scientific imagination leads to world-changing impact.

Join us and be part of something bigger. From global health to climate change, AI to business leadership, here at Imperial we navigate some of the world's toughest challenges. Whatever your role, your contribution will have a lasting impact.

As a member of our vibrant community of 22,000 students and 8,000 staff, you'll collaborate with passionate minds across nine London campuses and a global network.

This is your chance to help shape the future. We hope you'll join us at Imperial College London.

Our Culture

We work towards equality of opportunity, to eliminating discrimination, and to creating an inclusive working environment for all. We encourage applications from all backgrounds, communities and industries, and are committed to employing a team that has diverse skills, experiences and abilities. You can read more about our commitment on our web pages .

Proud signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from the Armed Forces community.

Our values are at the root of everything we do, and everyone in our community is expected to demonstrate respect, collaboration, excellence, integrity, and innovation.