Programme Manager

Job description
Job Title: Programme Manager
Location: Sheffield, UK (3 days WFO)
Duration: 6 months (Inside IR35)
Job Description:
Senior to very senior project manager in Programme Management
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
Role Details
Role Title: Programme Manager
Reporting to: Head of DAO Change and Portfolio Management
Role Purpose
Data & Analytics Office (DAO) is focused on:
Strengthening data management, governance, quality and regulatory compliance. Building a data-led culture through training and development.

Building sustainable data capabilities to improve customer/colleague experience, revenue, capital optimisation, risk management and cost efficiency. The Programme Manager will lead a team of Project Managers, Business Analysts and contingent project resources across multiple locations, while also being responsible for execution of a key data-related programme.

Key Responsibilities
Own programme delivery execution, including oversight of the product development roadmap and adoption plans. Define programme delivery strategy across multiple capabilities, projects and workstreams. Build stakeholder buy-in around plans, commitments and changes. Own programme reporting, governance and benefits realisation/OKR management. Lead Project Managers, Scrum Masters and PMOs across global delivery. Ensure delivery against budget, benefits, schedule and scope. Partner with Product and SMEs for annual planning and forecasting.

Manage intake and assessment of new change requirements, including scope and budget. Lead stakeholder discussions around delivery strategy, scope, capabilities and budget. Own resource planning and oversee pricing and detailed budgets. Act as an escalation point for risks, issues and dependencies. Manage scope and change-control processes and identify solutions with stakeholders. Manage negotiations and service-agreement monitoring for third-party contracts. Use tools such as JIRA and Confluence for delivery dashboards and reporting. Monitor financial health, deliverables and KPIs/OKRs.

Work with other Programme Managers and the Programme Office to evolve delivery-management practices. Establish controls, procedures and quality-assurance processes aligned with the Change Framework and Risk & Controls Framework. Manage and mentor Project Management/Scrum team members, including performance management, coaching and workload balancing. Specific Technical/Domain Requirements
Programme leadership & change management: Governance, scope, benefits, RAID/dependencies, stage gates and audit-ready documentation.

Platform & data migration: Proven experience with platform and data migration programmes, including SAS. Experience with option analysis, target-state design, roadmaps, large-scale/big-data migrations, environment readiness, testing, parallel runs, cutover and back-out planning. SAS migration: Understanding of migration dependencies, remediation planning, data lineage, reconciliation and post-migration assurance. Stakeholder & adoption management: Ability to work across business, engineering, operations, risk/security and vendors.

Financial services: Experience delivering change within regulated financial institutions. Programme management: 8+ years of programme management/delivery leadership experience across complex, global, multi-workstream programmes.

Leadership: Experience leading global teams across multiple locations and cultures within a Matrix organisation.

Agile: Experience with Agile methodologies in programme/product development; Agile certifications such as SAFe are advantageous.

Communication: Strong written, verbal and presentation skills, including engagement with senior stakeholders through to analysts.

Language: Proficient spoken and written English.
Programme Management | Programme Delivery | Change Management | Data Migration | SAS | Platform Migration | Data & Analytics | Data Lineage | Data Reconciliation | Target-State Design | Roadmap | Cutover | Back-out Planning | RAID | Dependencies | Stage Gates | Governance | Benefits Realisation | OKRs | Agile | SAFe | JIRA | Confluence | Financial Services | Banking | Risk & Controls | Stakeholder Management | Vendor Management | Budget Management | Resource Planning | Global Teams | Matrix Organisation | Operational Handover | Adoption | 8+ Years Programme Management