- Location: London or Manchester (Hybrid)
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Hybrid (typically 2 days per week in the office)
- Competitive Salary + Benefits
Our client is seeking an experienced Senior Programme Manager to play a key leadership role within a large-scale, multi-year enterprise transformation portfolio.
The Role
This role sits at the heart of a funded, senior-sponsored transformation that is fundamentally reshaping end-to-end services, operating models, technology, data, and organisational capability. The organisation has completed the early foundations of change and is now scaling delivery to realise long-term benefits.
As a Senior Programme Manager, you will provide leadership across complex initiatives, shape delivery approaches, and support the maturity of the wider programme management capability.
Key Responsibilities
- Owning and leading large, complex programmes or critical elements of a transformation portfolio
- Providing senior-level oversight of delivery, governance, risks, interdependencies, and benefits
- Influencing and challenging senior stakeholders to ensure alignment with strategic priorities
- Translating strategic objectives into clear, deliverable roadmaps and outcomes
- Supporting and coaching Programme Managers and Project Managers within your programme
- Contributing to portfolio-level planning, prioritisation, and continuous improvement of delivery practices
- Acting as a trusted partner to business leaders, enabling change rather than driving it in isolation
About you
- Significant experience as a Senior Programme Manager or equivalent, delivering enterprise-scale transformation
- Proven track record of leading complex, multi-disciplinary change across business, technology, and data
- Strong governance, financial management, risk, and assurance experienceAbility to operate confidently at senior leadership and board-facing levels
- Comfortable working in ambiguity, making trade-offs, and managing competing priorities
- A collaborative leader with strong coaching and influencing skills
- Sector experience is not essential, but experience delivering large-scale transformation is key.
Why Apply?
- Leadership role within an end-to-end operating model transformation
- Long-term, funded change with strong executive sponsorship
- Opportunity to shape how transformation is delivered, not just what is delivered
- Broad exposure across service design, technology, data, and organisational change
- A chance to help build and mature a programme management capability
This role suits a Senior Programme Manager who has led transformation at scale and is motivated by shaping outcomes, developing others, and delivering lasting organisational change. If you’re looking for influence, complexity, and long-term impact, this role offers all three.
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