Engagement Lead/Programme Manager
Posted 1 week ago by Experis UK
£952 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
Knutsford, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Engagement Lead / Programme Manager is responsible for overseeing the end-to-end delivery of a programme, ensuring effective governance, strategic alignment, and stakeholder management. This role serves as the main point of contact between delivery teams, senior stakeholders, and the client steering group, managing programme performance, scope, budget, risks, and dependencies. The position requires strong leadership and coordination across various functional teams to meet project milestones and deliverables. The role also involves facilitating strategic decision-making and ensuring adherence to delivery methodologies.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide overall leadership for programme delivery, ensuring milestones, deliverables, and outcomes are met.
- Establish and maintain programme governance structures, including steering committees, RAID logs, delivery frameworks, reporting cadence, and escalation paths.
- Drive strategic alignment between business objectives, delivery plans, and technical workstreams.
- Own resource planning, financial tracking, budget management, and contract compliance.
- Facilitate client steering, executive updates, and strategic decision-making sessions.
- Oversee cross-functional teams, ensuring coordination between technical, operational, and business workstreams.
- Manage high-level risks, issues, dependencies, and assumption tracking (RAID).
- Ensure adherence to delivery methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Hybrid) and organisational standards.
- Align programme outputs with change management, communications, and training requirements.
- Act as escalation point for critical delivery challenges, blockers, vendor issues, and scope variations.
- Understand enterprise delivery frameworks, SDLC, Agile at scale, and cloud transformation programmes.
- Interpret solution architectures, integration requirements, and data dependencies at a high level.
- Utilize project management tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, MS Project, and Confluence.
Key Skills:
- Strong leadership and programme management skills.
- Experience in establishing governance structures and managing stakeholder relationships.
- Proficiency in resource planning, financial tracking, and budget management.
- Ability to drive strategic alignment between business and technical teams.
- Familiarity with delivery methodologies including Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid.
- Understanding of enterprise delivery frameworks and cloud transformation.
- Experience with project management tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, MS Project, and Confluence.
Salary (Rate): £952 daily
City: Knutsford
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Location: Hybrid 60% office-40% remote - Knutsford
Duration: 30/10/2026
Rate to £952 MUST BE PAYE THROUGH UMBRELLA
Role Description
"Overview: The Engagement Lead / Programme Manager is accountable for end?to?end delivery oversight across the programme, ensuring governance, strategic alignment, and effective stakeholder management. This role acts as the primary interface between delivery teams, senior stakeholders, and the client steering group. The individual owns programme performance, scope, budget, risks, and dependencies.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide overall leadership for programme delivery, ensuring milestones, deliverables, and outcomes are met.
- Establish and maintain programme governance structures, including steering committees, RAID logs, delivery frameworks, reporting cadence, and escalation paths.
- Drive strategic alignment between business objectives, delivery plans, and technical workstreams.
- Own resource planning, financial tracking, budget management, and contract compliance.
- Facilitate client steering, executive updates, and strategic decision?making sessions.
- Oversee cross?functional teams, ensuring coordination between technical, operational, and business workstreams.
- Manage high?level risks, issues, dependencies, and assumption tracking (RAID).
- Ensure adherence to delivery methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Hybrid) and organisational standards.
- Align programme outputs with change management, communications, and training requirements.
- Act as escalation point for critical delivery challenges, blockers, vendor issues, and scope variations.
Technical/Delivery Components
Understanding of enterprise delivery frameworks, SDLC, Agile at scale, and cloud transformation programmes. Ability to interpret solution architectures, integration requirements, and data dependencies at a high level. Experience with project management tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, MS Project, and Confluence."