Senior Programme Manager

Ragged Edge; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning & Development

Mental health support

Private medical insurance

Financial Wellbeing

Work-Life Balance

Family Support

Celebrating Together

Job summary

Ragged Edge is seeking a diligent Programme Manager to own timelines, resourcing plans and budgets for ambitious projects. You’ll work with Client Partnerships and cross-functional teams to deliver at scale, ensuring handoffs are seamless and scopes are clear.

You’ll translate ambitions into actionable milestones, manage budgets with precision and drive improvements in process. You’ll use AI to reduce admin and free up strategic decision-making, raising the studio’s programme management

Qualifications

• Must be able to turn ambition into clear scopes, milestones and resourcing plans.
• Experience delivering projects at scale with budgets and margins.
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and driving clarity from it.
• Strong stakeholder management across creative, strategy, and client partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Own timelines, resourcing plans and budgets for ambitious work.
• Coordinate handoffs between creative, strategy, client partnerships and operations.
• Translate client ambitions into workable scopes, milestones and resource needs.
• Manage budgets and margins with rigour, flag issues early and course-correct as needed.
• Leverage AI and smarter processes to cut admin and free up judgment calls.
• Contribute to raising programme management standards across the studio.

Skills

Project planning

Budget management

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Job description

You’re the reason ambitious work actually gets made. You give people the time, clarity and structure that makes them better at their jobs. You catch the details others miss, and keep the momentum up. When things get ambiguous, you make them clear again. When priorities shift, you stay steady. You’re unflappable and adaptable.

About the role

You'll take ownership of the plan behind some of our most ambitious work, building timelines, resourcing plans and budgets. Working closely with Client Partnerships to effectively deliver projects at scale.

You'll be the connective tissue between creative, strategy, client partnerships, operations and the client. Making sure nothing gets lost in the handoffs, and that everyone knows exactly what's needed and by when.

You'll be the person who translates ambition into a workable plan. Turning what a client or creative team wants to achieve into clear scopes, milestones and the resourcing to make it happen.

You'll manage budgets and margins with rigour, understanding the balance of commercials and creative. You’ll flag early, course correct and solve problems before they need solving.

You'll use AI and smarter ways of working to cut the admin that doesn't need you, freeing up time for the judgement calls that do.

And you'll help raise the standard of programme management across the studio. Bringing better process, sharper thinking and a calmer way of working to the teams around you.

Who we’re looking for

You bring order to ambiguity without ever making the work feel smaller for it. You're meticulous about the details, but you never lose sight of why the project matters in the first place.

You're calm under pressure, comfortable having difficult conversations about scope, time or budget, and confident enough to push back when something doesn't add up.

You're excited to be the person a studio genuinely can't do its best work without.

We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone feels appreciated for who they are and supported in their personal and professional growth. We encourage applications from people who may not necessarily 'fit' the typical mould. We’re looking for people who think differently, because we do too.

While we have a flexible approach to remote working, we have a studio-first culture, with everyone on the team spending a minimum of 24 hours (roughly 3 days) a week in the studio.

From £50,000 depending on experience.

As a Certified B Corp we put our people first. Working at Ragged Edge comes with a carefully considered range of benefits across 6 key areas:

• Learning & Development
• Including career coaching, personal training budgets and regular ‘Lunch & Learn’ sessions.
• Including mental health support, private medical insurance and nutrition & wellness coaching.
• Financial Wellbeing
• Work-Life Balance
• Family Support
• Celebrating Together