Programme Manager

Role overview

Delivery and governance

• Deliver work on time, within budget and to agreed scope and quality; provide clear progress, risk and decision updates.
• Plan scope, objectives, deliverables, milestones, dependencies, budgets and success criteria; prepare business cases and initiation documents.
• Lead cross-functional teams and coordinate requirements, backlog, configuration and testing with implementation, product and development colleagues.
• Track KPIs and baseline plans; manage risks, issues, dependencies, change requests, quality, compliance and testing standards.
• Lead customer and stakeholder communications, steering groups, client meetings and project boards.
• Manage handover, acceptance, reviews, lessons learned, financial closeout and records; share delivery improvements.

Essential qualifications and experience

• Prince2 Practitioner, an equivalent project management qualification, or demonstrable equivalent experience such as APM PMQ or PMP.
• Agile project management or Scrum certification, such as AgilePM, PSM or CSM.
• 10+ years managing software, technology or business change projects from initiation to close.
• Track record delivering to time, budget and quality, with budgets and teams of people.
• Experience managing projects in Agile or hybrid Agile and waterfall environments, influencing senior stakeholders, and working in or alongside a PMO.
• Strong planning, risk management and change control skills.
• Experience using AI tools in day-to-day work, with responsible judgement and output checking.

Desirable experience

• Programme management qualification such as MSP; ITIL 4 Foundation or equivalent service management understanding.
• Experience in insurance, claims or financial services technology, managing several projects or a linked programme, or knowledge of software platforms, integration and data migration.

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