The Programme Manager will be expected to perform the following working in partnership with the wider delivery team:
- Programme Planning and Delivery: Develop comprehensive programme plans, including timelines, milestones, resources, and track to approved budget. Oversee the execution of multiple projects and workstreams whilst ensuring alignment with the organisational strategy and with an understanding of the business sponsors customer priorities and experience requirements.
- Ensure viable and practical vendor, supplier and Nest plans are developed and agreed, and ensure ongoing monitoring is in place to track their deliverables.
- Ensure dependencies are understood to the wider portfolio of change being delivered and with external parties including government where applicable.
- Reporting and Communication: Prepare and provide updates to stakeholders through the required governance forums.
- Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including senior management, clients, suppliers, and project teams.
- Risk and Issue Management: Identify potential risks and issues, develop mitigation strategies
- Provide leadership and support the wider project delivery team in helping to define potential solutions in response to business issues and opportunities.
- Resource Management: Allocate and manage resources across projects, ensuring optimal utilisation and addressing any gaps or conflicts.
- Quality Assurance: Monitor programme deliverables, RAIDs and reports to ensure they meet required standards and quality expectations.
- Continuous Improvement: Evaluate programme outcomes, document lessons learned and implement improvements for future initiatives.
- Configuration management: Ensure all artefacts are stored in agreed document management platforms / SharePoint and are baselined with appropriate version control.
- Ensure projects or workstreams are delivered in line with NEST approved methodologies.
The minimum criteria for this role are:
- Programme Management Experience for 3-5 years minimum
- Experience of the realities of programme management within an ever-shifting and demanding business environment.
- C-Suite governance
- Demonstrate high levels of experience in delivering large complex change initiatives and external supplier/service management capability, specifically in complex environments.
- Leadership experience in managing within a commercial, enterprise-wide context.
- Experience of leading complex delivery in cross-functional internal and external environments and experience in stakeholder management at all levels.
- Experience of building teams (either directly or indirectly, through matrix management)
- Financial services experience would be an advantage, but not essential
Don't worry if you think you don't have all the key skills, it might be worth taking the few minutes to apply as we're good at spotting potential and offer a generous training budget.
Please download a full job description to find a full scope, deliverables, experience and personal attributes required for this role.
Flexible and agile working
Everyone's personal situation is different.
To make the most out of hybrid working, we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):
- hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, once - twice a week, or more, as required)
- vary working hours
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