Programme Manager

Programme Manager
Basingstoke based 5 days a week

Your role will involve

Our purpose is to make the world more sustainable by building trust in society through innovation. As a Programme Manager you will play a key role in delivering programmes that safeguard the UK support citizens and enable transformation in secure and highly regulated environments. You will collaborate across customers and partners ensuring delivery excellence trusted relationships and agility in every engagement.

Reporting to the Programme Director you will contribute to the success of delivery by leading specific transition transformation agile or recovery programmes providing trusted delivery assurance and governance expertise.

Key Responsibilities

Programme Delivery & Leadership

Manage multi-disciplinary delivery teams across direct and matrix structures including partners subcontractors and customer-side teams.

Apply appropriate Agile and hybrid delivery methods (Scrum Kanban SAFe Waterfall Agile) and foster a culture of agility collaboration and continuous improvement across the delivery community.

Governance Risk & Assurance

Maintain robust programme governance integrated planning clearly documented requirements RAID management and benefits tracking in line with the wider delivery governance and assurance frameworks.

Collaborate with PMO Major Programmes Frameworks and Accounts teams to ensure governance and assurance frameworks are consistently applied and followed across all engagements.

Ensure compliance with delivery standards including JSPs export controls accreditation regimes JSP440 ISO27001 and GDS frameworks.

Provide assurance of in-flight programmes through regular reviews health checks and clear escalation where required.

Identify assess and mitigate programme risks proactively ensuring transparency and accountability at all stages. Ensured that the impact on the Business Line Profit & Loss due to project activities within the scope of the project is clearly visible and that all contingency usage is signed-off by the appropriate governance authority e.g. Project Board

Accountable for tracking the project costs and supporting Business Units in meeting payment milestones.

Ensure that the milestone achievements are signed by the customer and relevant invoices are raised.

Planning Reporting & Financial Management

Develop and maintain detailed programme / change schedules resource plans and financial forecasts.

Provide accurate timely and transparent reporting to internal leadership and customer stakeholders.

Ensure delivery plans are integrated and data-driven enabling early identification of risks dependencies and improvement opportunities.

Support financial governance and reporting to enable informed decision-making and value-driven outcomes.

Customer & Partner Engagement

Build trusted relationships and act as a delivery partner to customers suppliers and ecosystem partners.

Promote collaboration transparency and shared accountability to strengthen confidence in programme delivery.

Ensure effective communication and engagement across internal and external stakeholders enabling alignment and partnership at all levels.

Continuous Improvement & Knowledge Sharing

Capture lessons learned and embedded them into future transitions and delivery cycles to drive continuous improvement.

Contribute to improvement initiatives collaborating with PMO and Major Programmes teams to strengthen overall delivery maturity and performance.

Key skills and experience:

Significant experience in leading complex programmes in Defence National Security or other secure/highly regulated environments (e.g. government aerospace).

Strong working knowledge of Agile and hybrid delivery frameworks (Scrum Kanban Waterfall iterative delivery in gated environments).

Demonstrable capability in end-to-end programme management including integrated planning RAID management dependency control and assurance governance.

Experience working across a range of technology and transformation initiatives.

Experience operating as part of a Centre of Excellence or multi-programme delivery function providing assurance governance or recovery leadership across multiple concurrent initiatives.

Proven ability to manage multi-disciplinary delivery teams in matrix structures including supplier ecosystems.

Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively at senior levels (e.g. CxO MoD senior civil service).

Experience navigating Defence Security or Government governance and assurance frameworks (e.g. MOD Defence frameworks GDS Service Manual ISO CAF NIST IPA Gateway Reviews).

Experience supporting bids with programme management capabilities (e.g. transition planning cost/resource modelling governance framework definition and risk/dependency management).

Professional certification in MSP PMI-ACP PRINCE2 Practitioner ITIL and/or other Agile frameworks.

This role will require you to become security cleared to a high level. Please visitNational security vetting: clearance levels - ()

Please note: Its still worth applying even if you do not meet all the requirements above. We are passionate about investing in you and your career and if you have the transferable skills/ background in project management this could be the next opportunity for you.

Your benefits:

26 Days annual leave plus public holidays (3 flexible)

Pension Double matching contributions of up to 10%

Life assurance

Companywide incentive plans

Your choices (Flexible benefits such as increased holidays/ travel/ dental critical illness and more)

Perks at work employee discounts

Employee assistance programme/ virtual GP

Recruitment process

The recruitment process consists of two stages of interviews.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Email if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

Achieve together

We are recognised as a responsible and inclusive employer:Not only are we a certified Disability Confident Leader a Times Top 50 employer for Gender Equality a Top 75 employer for Social Mobility accredited with the Living Wage Foundation and a signatory for the Race at Work Charter but we are also committed to the United Nations standards for LGBTI and a Stonewall Top 100 Employer.

We are people centric:Our work environments enable you to Be Completely You.Our active people-led Inclusive Community networks are representative of all aspects of diversity and are instrumental in enabling and supporting our innovative approach to inclusion.

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