Programme Manager

The Role

• As a Programme Manager you will play a key role in steering and implementing technology projects that support our business transformation objectives. The candidate will have a good background in

  the PRA Finance or Information Services sector and ideally within a mid-market private equity-backed business. This role demands a unique combination of strong technical skills effective communication and the ability to navigate the complexities of a dynamic environment.

Principal Accountabilities

Programme Delivery and Governance

• Manage end-to-end programme delivery across technology editorial products sales marketing events and operations ensuring strategic alignment with organisational goals.
• Establish clear scope acceptance criteria and success metrics define tolerances for schedule cost and benefits and maintain robust change control throughout the programme lifecycle.
• Lead programme governance meetings present to steering committees and programme boards and drive adoption of consistent standards templates and tools across workstreams
• Enable timely decision-making by resolving issues removing barriers and escalating exceptions within delegated authority to protect delivery outcomes.

Stakeholder Engagement and Reporting

• Engage and align across all functions through structured reporting regular communications and effective governance.
• Operate a clear reporting cadence using standard RAG criteria and agreed KPIs tracking performance across scope schedule costs risks and dependencies

Financial Risk and Dependency Management

• Own programme budgets across CapEx and OpEx maintain accurate forecasts-at-completion in alignment with finance and surface variances early with options for decision.
• Maintain a rigorous RAID register with quantified risks assigned to named owners; actively manage cross-programme and third-party dependencies escalating systemic risks with clear trade-offs.

Resource demand and capacity management

• Forecast demand and capacity across programme workstreams match skills to demand and highlight bottlenecks with mitigation options.
• Secure resource commitments and adjust plans and sequencing to optimise utilisation and protect the critical path.

Benefits Realisation Change Management and Adoption

• Develop and track the benefits realisation plan with the named benefits owner initiating corrective actions where value realisation is at risk.
• Drive organisational change business readiness communication and training to achieve measurable adoption transition services to BAU with agreed SLAs run-books and knowledge transfer.

Line and Vendor Management

• Line-manage BAs and Project Managers including objective setting performance reviews recruitment and onboarding; forecast demand and capacity across programme workstreams.
• Manage third-party vendors end-to-end including RFP processes MSAs SoWs invoice tracking and issue resolution in liaison with procurement and legal teams.

AI-augmented delivery

• Use AI tools (e.g. Claude) to support programme planning documentation risk analysis and stakeholder communications while maintaining human-in-the-loop oversight; champion AI-augmented ways of working across the PMO and wider programme team.
• Champion AI-augmented ways of working across the portfolio management office and the wider programme team identifying opportunities to increase efficiency and reduce manual effort.

Portfolio management office support

• Support the portfolio management team with strategic alignment prioritisation investment recommendations and continuous improvement of PMO practices and reporting of performance and delivery progress.

Qualifications :

We recruit talented dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences all united by a belief in our mission to provide the worlds leading and most trusted price reporting events and intelligence service for the markets we serve. Were proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.

If you are open-minded curious resilient solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality then read on.

KNOWLEDGE EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated driven and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.

Industry and Domain Knowledge

• Demonstrated success delivering complex cross-functional programmes in information services financial services data and analytics or PRA environments with understanding of PRA operating models including pricing methodology governance and editorial workflows.
• Significant experience leading multiple concurrent initiatives with clear value realisation outcome-based planning and extensive commercial delivery of technology and business change.

Governance Risk and Financial Acumen

• Strong knowledge of programme governance frameworks RAID management dependency registers benefits tracking and structured decision-making within delegated tolerances.
• Proficiency in budget ownership forecasting accruals purchase orders and invoice validation across CapEx and OpEx with ability to apply variance analysis and earned-value techniques.

Stakeholder Engagement and Communication

• Ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders constructively across Technology Editorial Products Sales Marketing Events and Operations maintaining transparency through structured governance.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with a track record of clear executive updates decision papers and transparent programme reporting.

Delivery Methodology and Technology

• Deep knowledge of Agile methods (Scrum Kanban) scaled frameworks (e.g. SAFe) and hands-on proficiency with Jira Confluence Azure DevOps Microsoft 365 Power BI and standard PM planning tools ( SmartSheet or MS-Project).
• Practical understanding of Microsoft React REST APIs data pipelines and DevOps practices including CI/CD automated testing and release engineering.

Leadership Change Management and Vendors

• Leadership experience in matrixed global organisations with the ability to coach cross-functional teams drive organisational change and manage business readiness training and transition to BAU.
• Experience running RFPs creating MSAs and SoWs and managing multiple third-party vendors to deliver solutions to agreed quality while tracking invoices and payments.

AI-augmented delivery

• Practical experience using AI assistants such as Claude for programme planning scheduling risk analysis reporting and stakeholder communications with ability to craft effective prompts for high-quality programme artefacts.
• Understanding of responsible AI practices including human-in-the-loop oversight output validation and data sensitivity with willingness to champion AI-augmented ways of working and coach others in effective AI tool use.

Qualifications and certifications

• Degree or equivalent experience with relevant certifications such as MSP PRINCE2 PMI SAFe or Scrum preferred and demonstrated proficiency in using AI tools to plan and manage programmes is beneficial.

Legal and ethical awareness

• Awareness of competition law editorial independence and data ethics considerations relevant to analytics AI use and cross-functional forums involving market-sensitive information.

If youre excited about the role but your experience skills or qualifications dont perfectly align we encourage you to apply anyway.

Additional Information :

Our Values

Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. Its this mix of brilliant personalities experiences and insights that gives us that warm open and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are there are six things we all have in common and they form our Fastmarkets values.

Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and theyre embedded in everything we do. Our values are:

• METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers experience and our business performance
• ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
• GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
• INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
• CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
• COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect perspectives and experiences.

We are committed to ensuring all candidates feel welcomed and supported. Should your application advance and you require accommodations for the interview process please inform us so we can make the necessary arrangements.

Youve read a little about us now its over to you!

If you like what youve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person its time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: its used to determine whether or not youll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions well ask you on the day.

Its vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why youre great.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time