Programme manager
Posted 1 week ago by Trust In SODA
£400 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Programme Manager role requires a candidate with extensive experience in end-to-end delivery across multiple components, emphasizing stakeholder engagement and influence. The position involves managing vendor relationships, financial forecasts, and ensuring timely delivery of products while navigating complex business and regulatory environments. Candidates should possess strong communication skills and a background in financial services, particularly in areas like cards and payments. The role is hybrid, requiring two days in the Knutsford office and three days working from home.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own the delivery status report out and accuracy of the facts
- Vendor relationship management – running RFPs and contract management
- Control financial & resource forecasts & actuals to budget
- Overall responsibility for delivering the product to time, cost & quality
- Drives the team to ensure velocity is maintained / changes managed in line with expectations
- Ensure wider organisation is engaged & aligned to feature team needs, including timely / pre-emptive governance, approvals, dispensations
Key Skills:
- E2E program/project delivery experience
- Managing and navigating through multiple component teams and tracking their deliverables
- Managing stakeholders at different levels (business, technology, and leadership)
- Strong experience in JIRA and Confluence
- Ability to drive RAIDs and manage the critical path
- Excellent communication skills
- Background in financial services—specifically in cards, payments, risk, or collections and recoveries
- Experience of Agile delivery methodologies
- Ability to juggle priorities and multi-task
- Sound commercial judgment and understanding of the Financial Services Industry
Salary (Rate): £400 daily
City: Knutsford
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Programme Manager – HIRING ASAP
Start date: ASAP
Duration: 6 Months
Location: 2 days per week in Knutsford office & 3 days per week working from home
Rate: £400 per day inside IR35
Summary: Candidates should not be very data migration heavy. This is a processing engine, which at either side has a lot of changes up and downstream to function – a lot of the components aren’t within our control, so we need someone who has a lot of drive and experience in E2E multiple component delivery – where articulation and influence are highly valued traits. Must have experience in multi-component delivery. clear on working with stakeholders outside of direct control/influence.
Skills: E2E program/ project delivery experience. I.e. Managing and navigating through multiple component teams and tracking their deliverables. Managing Stakeholders at different levels. I.e. Business, technology and leadership. Demonstrate experience with engaging each type of stakeholders. Strong experience in JIRA, Confluence (writing JQL queries etc.) and how that can be best put to use in handling the above. I.e. Data driven delivery. Candidates who can work effectively in a matrix organization and hold component teams accountable for timelines and cost. Strong proficiency in JIRA. Ability to drive RAIDs and manage the critical path. Excellent communication skills. A background in financial services—specifically in cards, payments, risk, or collections and recoveries.
Responsibilities
- Own the delivery status report out and accuracy of the facts
- Vendor relationship management – running RFP’s and contract management
- Control financial & resource forecasts & actuals to budget
- Overall responsibility for delivering the product to time, cost & quality.
- Drives the team to ensure velocity is maintained / changes managed in line with expectations
- Ensure wider organisation is engaged & aligned to feature team needs, including timely / pre-emptive governance, approvals, dispensations
Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications: Effectively provide change management and project management expertise to change projects to which the Project Manager is assigned. Experience of Agile delivery methodologies and practical experience of managing sprint-based deliveries Understand at a high level the interface between complex business needs and the complex legal and regulatory environment in which the business operates. Ability to juggle priorities, multi-task and flawlessly execute at speed. Sound commercial judgment and overall understanding of the Financial Services Industry, particularly the business impact of the regulatory environment.