Climate Change jobs in United Kingdom

Programme Manager (4683)

Forvis Mazars cares about your career progression, offering individually designed career paths that help you pursue your interests, match your changing needs, and explore your true potential. We work with diverse, prestigious clients across a range of sectors and geographies, giving you the opportunity to constantly update and grow your skills for lifelong professional development.

If you are looking for a career that allows you to influence and inspire transformational change, build global relationships, operate with a high level of autonomy and ownership, work with leading technology solutions and partner with an innovation function ready to support projects by trialling cutting edge approaches – then this role within the Forvis Mazars business change team could be just the right place for you!

About the team

Our Business Services team is a collective of creative, strategic, forward-thinking business enablers. Together People & Culture, Marketing & Communications, IT, Operations, Finance and Quality & Risk Management teams make it their mission to ensure Forvis Mazars has the right tools, technology, strategies, and services in place to deliver exceptional client service and future-proof our growing business.

About the role

• You'll play a pivotal role in overseeing the delivery of complex programmes to bring about transformational change and ultimately growing our business.
• Responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of a change programme, effective coordination of all projects within a programme, benefits identification and realisation and management of project interdependencies. And, collaborating closely with the sponsor and stakeholders to achieve programme goals and organisational outcomes in the most collaborative ways.
• Strategic Planning and Design: develop and design the overall programme, considering its outcomes and objectives, scope, and strategic alignment
• Governance and Quality Assurance: develop governance presentations and present at Steering Board meetings as well as further governance forums
• Budget Management: monitor expenditure and costs against delivered and realized benefits as the programme progresses
• Project Coordination and Delivery: ensure timely delivery of new products or services from projects, adhering to quality, time, and budget constraints
• Risk Management: identify and manage risks that may impact the programme's successful outcome
• Stakeholder Communication: manage communications with all stakeholders, including project teams, executives, and external partners
• Business Transition and Change: collaborate with the business change manager (or equivalent) to transition to the new business-as-usual state
• Programme Reporting: regularly report programme progress to the sponsor or programme director

What are we looking for?

• A professional qualification in programme management such as Managing Successful Programmes (MSP)
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to maintain focus and momentum
• Experience in managing complex and challenging change and interdependencies
• Excellent communicator who can deal with complex situations and be comfortable dealing with challenging questions from senior stakeholders and executives
• Be effective in engagement with stakeholders and aligning support for the programme

About Forvis Mazars

Forvis Mazars is a leading global professional services network. The network operates under a single brand worldwide, with just two members: Forvis Mazars LLP in the United States and Forvis Mazars Group SC, an internationally integrated partnership operating in over 100 countries and territories.

Both member firms share a commitment to providing an unmatched client experience, delivering audit & assurance, tax and advisory services around the world. Together, our strategic vision strives to move our clients, people, industry and communities forward.Through our reach and areas of expertise, we help organisations respond to emerging sustainability issues in the global marketplace including human rights, climate change, environmental impacts and culture.

We are one diverse, multicultural, multi-generational team with a huge sense of connection and belonging. This is a place where you can take ownership of your career, get involved, believe in yourself and put your ideas into action.

At Forvis Mazars, we empower our people and celebrate individuality. We thrive on teamwork and are agile. We have bold foresight and give people the freedom to make a personal contribution to our shared purpose. We support one another to deliver quality, create change and have a deeper understanding, to help make an impact so that everyone can reach their full potential.

Being inclusive is core to our culture at Forvis Mazars; we want to ensure everyone, whether in the recruitment process or beyond is fully supported to be their unique self. To read more about our approach click here

Our aim is to make the recruitment process as accessible and inclusive as possible - please contact us to discuss any changes you may require so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.

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