Program Manager

· 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