Programme Manager

Programme Managers - Leeds, Yorkshire - hybrid 2/3 days per week

Our client, a financial services provider has exciting opportunities for experienced Programme Managers to join their transformation team to support a programme of digital and business change. The purpose of this role is to provide leadership to the Project Managers, lead the end-to-end delivery of one or more programmes aligned to their business strategy and ensure project outcomes are fully adopted to enable benefits realisation.

Responsibilities

· To build and maintain strong relationships with the business, senior stakeholders

and external stakeholders and the PMO to ensure the delivery and governance of a programme or

programmes of change to agreed scope, time, cost and quality

· Work with Programme sponsors to define measures and gain business buy in for adoption of outcomes to ensure programme benefits are defined, agreed, and accepted and can be tracked.

· To effectively champion and support change processes and tools to ensure best practice is adopted across the wider change team

· To provide and manage appropriately controlled environments and release management process to support change programmes

· Quality Management of the Delivery Approach

· Keep abreast of evolving legislation and best practice - maintain compliance with relevant regulations.

Skills

• Extensive experience of having delivered a wide range of different types of programmes/projects - eg technology, business change etc at programme level using waterfall methodology
• Demonstrated experience of management of project managers and other key resources
• Financial services/insurance experience would be highly advantageous, but we will consider experience gained in other structured, regulated environments with strong governance requirements
• Significant budgetary responsibility for at least one major programme of work at a time
• Demonstrate experience of having managed resources effectively to deliver a programme
• Proven stakeholder management skills
• Demonstrate how previous programmes of work delivered have benefitted the business

This is a hybrid role requiring 2/3 days per week in the office so proximity to the location is key.