The Programme Manager will provide leadership, coordination, and oversight across the strategic business projects. This role will be accountable for the development and maintenance of a consolidated delivery roadmap and ensuring that all project activity is delivered in alignment with business priorities, on time, within budget, and to agreed scope and quality.
The role will work closely with Project Managers, Testing Manager and IT Teams to serve as a key point of integration across delivery workstreams. While not directly responsible for the people management of Project Managers, Tester Manager role will report directly into this role. The role requires strong influence, stakeholder engagement, and cross-functional coordination skills.
- Develop and manage the end-to-end business delivery roadmap for strategic projects across the business.
- Provide centralised programme oversight, ensuring effective tracking, risk management, and issue resolution across all in-scope projects.
- Coordinate with Project Managers to ensure project milestones are aligned and dependencies are managed.
- Support prioritisation, resource alignment, and escalation management across the programme.
- Facilitate governance routines, including some Steering Committees and project reporting updates.
- Ensure cross-functional alignment with testing, technology, compliance, and operational teams.
- Line management responsibility for the Testing Manager, ensuring quality assurance activities are integrated across the delivery lifecycle.
- Drive consistency and adherence to internal project governance standards, tools, and methodologies.
- Act as a key liaison between business sponsors, delivery teams, and senior stakeholders.
- Support continuous improvement and post-implementation reviews to enhance future project delivery.
- Cultivate a collaborative and high-performance team culture that fosters creativity and problem-solving
- Individual Project Management as capacity allows
Required skills and experience
- Experience in programme or project management, ideally within financial services or regulated environments.
- Prior experience of managing complex, cross-functional programme delivery across multiple workstreams.
- Experience in Banking Industry is highly desirable.
- Strong knowledge of project and programme governance methodologies.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.
- Experience working with testing and quality assurance teams.
- Ability to manage ambiguity, conflicting priorities, and work under pressure.
- Strategic mindset with strong analytical and planning skills.
- Resilient and adaptable, with a solutions-focused approach.
- Collaborative and engaging leadership style.
- High attention to detail and commitment to quality.
- Relevant qualifications in
- Project / Programme Management
- IT degree / IT qualifications
All interested candidates should send CVs
