Technical Programme Manager

Role overview

Location and working arrangement

• The role is based in London and is hybrid: three days each week in the London office and two days working from home.

Contract and schedule

• Full-time, fixed-term contract for one year.

Programme delivery

• Ensure objectives are understood and communicated, with clear stakeholder roles and responsibilities.
• Establish governance, procedures, communication structures, monitoring processes, and best practices.
• Lead governance meetings with senior stakeholders and manage expectations.
• Coordinate product and engineering roadmaps and develop KPIs to show project impact.
• Manage dependencies, remove blockers, and resolve impediments across concurrent workstreams.
• Apply Agile delivery practices at scale and provide transparency, planning, and delivery oversight.
• Communicate project status for decision-making and proactively manage constraints and risks.
• Timebox milestones and decisions, challenging plans to maximize value delivery.

Candidate requirements

• Strong project-management experience in an Agile environment, with a relevant certification.
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies and the ability to apply them at scale.
• Strong technology background and experience across the full software delivery lifecycle.
• Experience managing cross-departmental dependencies in complex programmes.
• Ability to work with executive-level stakeholders, with excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Experience using work-management tools such as JIRA and Confluence.
• Strong problem-solving, data-analysis, organization, and project-management abilities; knowledge of growth performance metrics.
• Collaborative and inclusive, open to feedback, and able to manage competing projects and delegate appropriately.

About Just Eat Takeaway.com

Development and support

• The company describes a programme of employee training and support to help people develop their careers.