Anticipated Contract End Date/Length: March 29, 2027
Work Set-Up: Hybrid (3 days per week in the office, 2 days remote)
Clearance Required: BPSS
Our client in the Information Technology and Services industry is looking for an experienced and highly motivated Programme Manager to lead the delivery of complex, large-scale strategic programmes across a dynamic and regulated enterprise environment. This role is responsible for overseeing multiple interconnected projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives, managing key stakeholder relationships, and driving successful programme outcomes from initiation through to completion.
The successful candidate will have a proven track record of delivering transformational change programmes, ideally within the financial services sector, where governance, regulatory compliance, risk management, and operational resilience are critical to success.
Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of strategic programmes, ensuring objectives, timelines, budgets, and benefits are successfully achieved.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive programme plans, roadmaps, and delivery schedules.
- Coordinate multiple workstreams and project teams to ensure alignment and effective execution across the programme lifecycle.
- Establish and maintain robust governance frameworks, ensuring appropriate reporting, escalation, and decision-making processes.
- Manage programme budgets, forecasts, resource allocation, and financial controls.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate programme risks, issues, dependencies, and change impacts.
- Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders, business leaders, technology teams, and third-party suppliers.
- Drive programme reporting and provide regular updates to executive leadership and steering committees.
- Ensure programme delivery adheres to internal controls, regulatory requirements, and organisational standards.
- Support business readiness activities, including communications, training, operational transition, and benefits realisation.
- Promote continuous improvement and best practice programme management methodologies across the organisation.
- Facilitate strategic decision-making by providing insight into programme performance, risks, and opportunities.
- Significant experience delivering complex programmes within large enterprise environments.
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects and workstreams simultaneously while maintaining delivery quality and control.
- Strong understanding of programme and project management methodologies, including Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery approaches.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and engage at executive level.
- Strong financial management capabilities, including budget planning, forecasting, and cost control.
- Demonstrable experience managing programme governance, risk management, and regulatory oversight.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams across business and technology domains.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
- Proficiency in project and programme management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, Azure DevOps, and the Microsoft Office suite.
- Previous experience within banking, financial services, insurance, or other highly regulated sectors is desirable.
- Experience delivering digital transformation, operational resilience, risk, regulatory, technology, data, or infrastructure programmes is advantageous.
- Knowledge of regulatory frameworks and governance requirements applicable to financial institutions is preferred.
- Professional certifications such as MSP, PRINCE2, PMP, Agile Practitioner, SAFe, or equivalent are desirable.
- Strong strategic thinking and leadership capabilities, with a highly organised and delivery-focused approach.
- Ability to operate effectively in complex and fast-paced environments.
- Resilience, adaptability, and confidence managing ambiguity.
- Collaborative approach with excellent interpersonal skills.
- Commitment to driving successful business outcomes through effective programme leadership.
- Eligibility to meet BPSS clearance requirements.
- Ability to work onsite in Sheffield three days per week.
- Willingness and ability to work through an umbrella company under PAYE arrangements.
Candidates must be legally authorized to live and work in the country where the position is based, without requiring employer sponsorship.
HelloKindred is committed to fair, transparent, and inclusive hiring practices. We assess candidates based on skills, experience, and role-related requirements.
We appreciate your interest in this opportunity. While we review every application carefully, only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
HelloKindred is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.