Senior Programme Manager

Levick Stanley; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Leadership role

Opportunity for long-term impact

Job summary

A consulting firm is seeking an experienced Senior Programme Manager to lead a large-scale transformation. This hybrid role involves overseeing complex initiatives, influencing stakeholders, and translating strategic objectives into deliverable plans. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in enterprise transformation, strong governance skills, and the ability to work collaboratively in ambiguous environments. This position offers a unique opportunity to shape the delivery of transformation and develop a programme management capability.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a Senior Programme Manager or equivalent.
• Proven track record of leading complex transformations.
• Strong governance and financial management skills.
• Ability to operate confidently at senior leadership levels.
• Experience delivering large-scale transformation is key; sector experience not essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead large, complex programmes within a transformation portfolio.
• Provide oversight of delivery, governance, and risks.
• Influence senior stakeholders to align with strategic priorities.
• Translate strategic objectives into clear roadmaps.
• Support and coach Programme Managers and Project Managers.
• Contributing to portfolio-level planning, prioritisation, and continuous improvement of delivery practices.
• Acting as a trusted partner to business leaders, enabling change rather than driving it in isolation.

Skills

Leadership in transformation

Governance and financial management

Risk management

Coaching and influencing skills

Multi-disciplinary change management

Job description

• Location: London or Manchester (Hybrid)
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Hybrid (typically 2 days per week in the office)
• Competitive Salary + Benefits

Our client is seeking an experienced Senior Programme Manager to play a key leadership role within a large-scale, multi-year enterprise transformation portfolio.

The Role

This role sits at the heart of a funded, senior-sponsored transformation that is fundamentally reshaping end-to-end services, operating models, technology, data, and organisational capability. The organisation has completed the early foundations of change and is now scaling delivery to realise long-term benefits.

As a Senior Programme Manager, you will provide leadership across complex initiatives, shape delivery approaches, and support the maturity of the wider programme management capability.

Key Responsibilities

• Owning and leading large, complex programmes or critical elements of a transformation portfolio
• Providing senior-level oversight of delivery, governance, risks, interdependencies, and benefits
• Influencing and challenging senior stakeholders to ensure alignment with strategic priorities
• Translating strategic objectives into clear, deliverable roadmaps and outcomes
• Supporting and coaching Programme Managers and Project Managers within your programme
• Contributing to portfolio-level planning, prioritisation, and continuous improvement of delivery practices
• Acting as a trusted partner to business leaders, enabling change rather than driving it in isolation

About you

• Significant experience as a Senior Programme Manager or equivalent, delivering enterprise-scale transformation
• Proven track record of leading complex, multi-disciplinary change across business, technology, and data
• Strong governance, financial management, risk, and assurance experienceAbility to operate confidently at senior leadership and board-facing levels
• Comfortable working in ambiguity, making trade-offs, and managing competing priorities
• A collaborative leader with strong coaching and influencing skills
• Sector experience is not essential, but experience delivering large-scale transformation is key.

Why Apply?

• Leadership role within an end-to-end operating model transformation
• Long-term, funded change with strong executive sponsorship
• Opportunity to shape how transformation is delivered, not just what is delivered
• Broad exposure across service design, technology, data, and organisational change
• A chance to help build and mature a programme management capability

This role suits a Senior Programme Manager who has led transformation at scale and is motivated by shaping outcomes, developing others, and delivering lasting organisational change. If you’re looking for influence, complexity, and long-term impact, this role offers all three.