Programme Delivery & GTM Lead
Key Skills for This Role
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Experience and delivery qualifications
- 10–15 years leading large-scale transformation programmes, digital banking initiatives, product launches, or strategic change portfolios; banking or financial services experience is ideal.
- Proven experience leading complex multi-year programmes across squads, vendors, partners, and cross-functional stakeholders from inception through launch and adoption.
- Experience owning scope, timeline, budget, quality, operational readiness, and business outcomes in large transformation environments.
- Experience launching digital products, customer journeys, propositions, platforms, or major change initiatives, with accountability for adoption and value realization.
- Extensive programme financial management experience, including budgets, forecasting, cost control, business cases, benefits tracking, and executive reporting.
- Expertise in programme governance, delivery assurance, launch governance, executive forums, and RAID/RAAIDD frameworks.
- Experience executing go-to-market strategies, including readiness, stakeholder engagement, and launch-performance monitoring.
- Experience managing vendor commercial performance, contract governance, delivery accountability, and value realization.
- Strong background in Agile delivery at scale across multiple squads and functions.
Education and preferred qualifications
- A bachelor’s degree in Business, Technology, Engineering, Finance, or a related discipline is required.
- An MBA or equivalent postgraduate qualification is preferred.
- PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, SAFe, MSP, or equivalent programme and delivery management certifications are preferred.
- Product Management, Go-to-Market Strategy, Change Management, or Digital Transformation training or experience is advantageous.
- Experience in Business Banking, Digital Banking, Payments, Lending, Customer Onboarding, Customer Servicing, or large-scale platform modernization is highly advantageous.
Responsibilities
- Lead complex transformation programmes from inception through launch and adoption, coordinating squads, vendors, delivery partners, and stakeholders.
- Own end-to-end delivery across scope, timelines, budget, quality, operational readiness, and business outcomes.
- Deliver and launch digital products, customer journeys, propositions, platforms, and major change initiatives, driving adoption and value realization.
- Manage programme budgets, forecasts, costs, business cases, benefits tracking, and executive financial reporting.
- Establish programme governance, delivery assurance, launch governance, structured reporting, and RAID/RAAIDD management.
- Develop and execute go-to-market strategies, including operational readiness, stakeholder engagement, and launch-performance monitoring.
- Manage vendor and delivery-partner commercial performance, contracts, accountability, and value realization.
- Coordinate scaled Agile delivery across squads, business functions, and delivery teams to improve execution discipline and predictability.
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