Senior Program Manager

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Travel: Occasional travel to Manchester (co‑location)

Duration: 6 months with extension

Description:

Key Responsibilities:

  • Focal point and lead for Customer Ecosystem build workstream
  • Proactively drive and manage delivery pace and velocity.
  • Accountable for workstream planning including identification and ongoing leadership of resources required to achieve work stream outcomes
  • Understand key milestones and drive team to achieve them as efficiently as possible
  • Focus of early Identification and mitigation of risks & dependencies to avoid impact to plan
  • Collaboration across programme workstreams to effectively manage key inter‑dependencies
  • Own issues and blockers that hinder progress, removing or escalating them until fully resolved
  • Accountability resource forecasting, assessing availability, inputting into group resourcing process and escalation of resource issues.
  • Internal and External stakeholder management and influencing to ensure positive delivery outcomes and build credibility for the programme
  • Commercial awareness and acumen, active management of internal and external programme costs to ensure efficiency and value realisation.
  • Provide clear and concise updates to senior leadership on plan progress, blockers impacting progress and plans for resolution.
  • Responsible for creating a collaborative environment to focus on value-based delivery.
  • Foster a learning culture based on continuous improvement and a focus on innovation.

Specific Skills:

  • Experience of scaled delivery specifically in Transactional Banking sector
  • Commercial acumen and evidence of vendor delivery management at scale – Circa £5m plus engagement
  • Strong experience of complex integration, digital and core banking systems delivery programmes in a multi‑vendor/ partner context
  • Evidence of stakeholder management and engagement including frequent Executive level engagement
  • Ability to effectively run large workshops with multiple stakeholders to solve complex problems
  • Able to effectively mobilise internal/external teams
  • Ability to communicate at all levels, from technical teams through to senior leaders and Executives
  • Experienced with defining and building robust plans & roadmaps with clear milestones and dependencies
  • Knowledge and experience in coordinating with procurement, legal and 3rd parties to ensure contractual milestones are met
  • Able to drill into detail and extract insight from data

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Company: Lorien
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Location: Coventry
Job Description:

Travel: Occasional travel to Manchester (co‑location)

Duration: 6 months with extension

Description:

Key Responsibilities:

  • Focal point and lead for Customer Ecosystem build workstream
  • Proactively drive and manage delivery pace and velocity.
  • Accountable for workstream planning including identification and ongoing leadership of resources required to achieve work stream outcomes
  • Understand key milestones and drive team to achieve them as efficiently as possible
  • Focus of early Identification and mitigation of risks & dependencies to avoid impact to plan
  • Collaboration across programme workstreams to effectively manage key inter‑dependencies
  • Own issues and blockers that hinder progress, removing or escalating them until fully resolved
  • Accountability resource forecasting, assessing availability, inputting into group resourcing process and escalation of resource issues.
  • Internal and External stakeholder management and influencing to ensure positive delivery outcomes and build credibility for the programme
  • Commercial awareness and acumen, active management of internal and external programme costs to ensure efficiency and value realisation.
  • Provide clear and concise updates to senior leadership on plan progress, blockers impacting progress and plans for resolution.
  • Responsible for creating a collaborative environment to focus on value-based delivery.
  • Foster a learning culture based on continuous improvement and a focus on innovation.

Specific Skills:

  • Experience of scaled delivery specifically in Transactional Banking sector
  • Commercial acumen and evidence of vendor delivery management at scale – Circa £5m plus engagement
  • Strong experience of complex integration, digital and core banking systems delivery programmes in a multi‑vendor/ partner context
  • Evidence of stakeholder management and engagement including frequent Executive level engagement
  • Ability to effectively run large workshops with multiple stakeholders to solve complex problems
  • Able to effectively mobilise internal/external teams
  • Ability to communicate at all levels, from technical teams through to senior leaders and Executives
  • Experienced with defining and building robust plans & roadmaps with clear milestones and dependencies
  • Knowledge and experience in coordinating with procurement, legal and 3rd parties to ensure contractual milestones are met
  • Able to drill into detail and extract insight from data

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Posted: May 17th, 2026