Transformation Programme Manager, Contract

Entanet; Telford; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Generous holiday allowance

Flexible working arrangements

Supportive, inclusive culture

Job summary

Entanet International, Ltd. is seeking a hands-on Transformation Programme Manager to bring structure and delivery discipline to a portfolio of high-priority transformation projects.

You’ll build credible plans, manage dependencies and governance, and surface risks early while working office-based in Telford. This contractor role requires telecoms experience, strong project-management judgement, and the ability to drive delivery at both programme and project levels.

Qualifications

• Telecoms environment experience and understanding of telecoms operations.
• Proven ability to build and drive detailed delivery plans.
• Coordinate multiple concurrent projects and dependencies across workstreams.
• Confidently communicate with senior stakeholders and delivery teams.
• Organised, proactive and delivery-focused, bringing structure to in-flight work.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain integrated project and programme plans.
• Break deliverables into tasks, milestones, dependencies and owners.
• Coordinate resource planning across projects and identify capacity conflicts.
• Establish a practical governance rhythm with progress reviews and escalation routes.
• Track milestones, risks, issues and decisions; surface delivery confidence.
• Hold workstream leads and stakeholders to agreed actions and commitments.
• Plan for delivery impacts on business-as-usual services and operations.
• Support project initiation and scope definition, including a programme PID if needed.
• Turn broad deadlines into realistic, actionable delivery plans.
• Identify where additional delivery capacity may be needed and justify it.

Skills

Telecoms experience

Project management

Cross-project dependencies

Stakeholder management

Delivery planning

Governance

Business continuity

Tools

Microsoft Project

Planner

Job description

We are looking for a Transformation Programme Manager, Contractor

Contract Type: Contractor, immediately available

Location: Telford Office Based

Hours: 37.5 hours per week, 9am-5.30pm Monday to Friday

Work pattern: Office Based, Telford

About the role

We’re seeking a hands‑on Transformation Programme Manager to bring structure, visibility and delivery discipline to a portfolio of high-priority transformation projects. You’ll work across project teams to build credible plans, manage dependencies and resource pressures, strengthen governance, and surface risks early.

This is a hands‑on role where you’ll operate at programme level while also getting into the detail to help projects plan and move forward. Telecoms experience is essential, alongside sound project‑management judgement, initiative and the ability to ask the right questions.

Key responsibilities

• Build and maintain integrated project and programme plans,
• Break deliverables into clear tasks, milestones, dependencies and owners.
• Coordinate resource planning across projects and identify capacity conflicts.
• Establish a practical governance rhythm, including progress reviews and clear escalation routes.
• Track milestones, risks, issues and decisions; make status and delivery confidence visible.
• Hold workstream leads and stakeholders to agreed actions and commitments.
• Work with operational teams to plan for delivery impacts and maintain business‑as‑usual services.
• Support project initiation and scope definition, including a programme-level PID if needed.
• Help teams turn broad or aspirational deadlines into realistic, actionable delivery plans.
• Identify where additional delivery capacity may be needed and make the case for it.

About you

You’re a proactive, hands‑on programme manager who brings structure, clarity and momentum to complex work. You’re comfortable challenging assumptions, asking the right questions and working with people at all levels to turn plans into practical action. You can see the bigger picture while keeping a close eye on the detail that makes delivery happen.

Essential experience and capabilities

• Experience working in a telecoms environment, with an understanding of telecoms operations
• Strong project‑management experience, with evidence of building and driving detailed delivery plans.
• Able to coordinate multiple concurrent projects and manage cross-project dependencies.
• Confident managing risks, issues, actions, milestones and stakeholder expectations.
• Organised, proactive and comfortable bringing structure to work that is already in flight.
• Able to communicate clearly with both senior stakeholders and delivery teams.
• Practical, resilient and willing to work at both strategic and task level.
• Able to work collaboratively with operational teams and understand the importance of business continuity.

Desirable

• Experience with operational change, network migration or service‑management implementations.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Project, Planner or similar project‑management tools.
• Experience establishing programme governance or managing resource contention across a portfolio.

What we offer

• Competitive base salary
• Generous holiday allowance and flexible working arrangements.
• Supportive, inclusive culture with and cross‑functional collaboration.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.