Programme Manager – Strategic Business Integration

Job Summary

As part of our continued investment in strategic data capabilities, this role leads the integration of a strategically important data capability into Experian’s operating model, coordinating with legal, risk, compliance, data governance, product, technology, finance, HR, operations and commercial teams to ensure a well‑controlled, clearly governed transition aligned to Experian standards.

Main Responsibilities

• Define and manage the overall integration plan, ensuring all business, regulatory, operational and technology workstreams are sequenced, prioritised and aligned.
• Lead the planning, execution and delivery of multiple integration workstreams, ensuring milestones are met on time and within budget.
• Oversee programme governance, risk management, reporting and decision‑making, ensuring transparency and accountability across all workstreams.
• Coordinate legal, risk, compliance and other functional teams to ensure a joined‑up transition.
• Build and maintain an integrated plan covering key milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, deliverables and business outcomes.
• Support contractual and operational transition activity, ensuring key obligations, approvals and dependencies are visible and actively managed.
• Collaborate with product and data teams to support the safe enablement of strategic data capabilities in line with agreed permissions, controls and governance.
• Coordinate with technology teams where platform, data, access management, service readiness or infrastructure activity is required.
• Manage budgets, resource plans, third‑party dependencies and delivery risks to ensure timely and cost‑effective execution.
• Facilitate senior stakeholder engagement.
• Support change management activities to ensure successful implementation, internal readiness and adoption of new processes or capabilities.
• Facilitate regular programme reviews, steering committees and stakeholder updates to maintain transparency, alignment and pace.
• Identify and mitigate risks and issues across the programme, implementing corrective actions where necessary.
• Support Day 1 readiness, stabilisation, operational handover, governance set‑up and post‑transition support.
• Work closely with product owners, business analysts, legal counsel, compliance teams, risk specialists, operational SMEs and technology teams to translate business requirements into clear delivery plans.
• Ensure new or transitioned processes are scalable, controlled, compliant and aligned with Experian’s operating model and enterprise standards.
• Monitor and report on programme performance using dashboards, KPIs, RAID logs, executive summaries and benefits tracking.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in leading complex business integration, transformation or regulated change programmes with multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Experience in integrated planning, dependency management, RAID management, governance, reporting and executive stakeholder engagement.
• Experience operating in a regulated environment.
• Experience managing budgets, resources, vendors, risks and delivery trade‑offs across complex programme landscapes.
• Experience coordinating legal or contractual transition activity, customer or stakeholder communications, operating model change and service readiness.
• Experience with business integration, M&A integration, asset integration, customer migration, data product integration or operating model transformation.
• Familiarity with tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Recognised programme or project management qualification such as MSP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, PMP, APM PMQ, AgilePM or equivalent would be advantageous.
• Experience in financial services, credit, fraud, identity, data services, information services, banking, insurance, fintech or another regulated data environment would be advantageous.

Benefits & Working Conditions

• Hybrid working – remote/in‑office.
• Competitive compensation package with discretionary bonus.
• Core benefits include pension, healthcare, sharesave scheme and more.
• 25 days annual leave with 8 bank holidays and 3 volunteering days, and option to purchase additional leave.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Experian is an Equal Opportunity and affirmative action employer. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know at the earliest opportunity.

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