Senior Programme Manager
Role Overview
Lead delivery of a major University finance-system transformation intended to improve how departments process and manage financial transactions.
Provide strategic oversight and end-to-end delivery leadership across complex, interdependent programme areas.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Lead delivery of a major University finance-system transformation intended to improve how departments process and manage financial transactions.
Provide strategic oversight and end-to-end delivery leadership across complex, interdependent programme areas.
Responsibilities
- Lead planning and delivery of programme initiatives across business, technology and change activities.
- Oversee plans, resources, budgets, risks, issues and dependencies; maintain governance and delivery momentum.
- Work with Executive Sponsors, University leaders, business teams, technical specialists and external delivery partners.
- Resolve challenges, manage competing priorities and ensure progress and decisions are clear.
- Identify and proactively manage important risks, issues and problems.
Skills and requirements
- Experienced programme or senior project management professional with a strong record delivering complex, large-scale transformation initiatives.
- Hold a professional qualification alongside a project management qualification.
- Excellent short-, medium- and long-term planning using MS Project; strong interpersonal, analytical and communication skills.
- Good understanding of enterprise systems and business transformation.
- Oracle Financials or Oracle Fusion implementation experience is ideal.
- Experience in a large, complex organisation, particularly higher education or a similar institutional environment, is advantageous.
Workplace
- The University supports hybrid working, with work undertaken partly on University premises and partly remotely where the role allows; arrangements may change and are not contractual.
Appointment duration
- Funding for the post is available for 12 months.
Benefits
- Benefits include 41 days of annual leave including bank holidays, defined-benefit pension schemes, flexible working options, career development, health and wellbeing support, and shopping discounts.
Pre-employment checks
Successful candidates will be required to complete a basic disclosure criminal-records check, health assessment and security check.
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