Careers - Programme Manager
If you’re great at what you do, have a passion for people, technology and a fantastic client-focused delivery mindset, get in touch and tell us about yourself. We may have an opportunity waiting just for you.
Responsiblties
- Planning and designing the programme and proactively monitoring its progress, resolving issues and initiating appropriate corrective action
- Defining the programme’s governance arrangements
- Ensuring effective quality assurance and the overall integrity of the programme – focusing inwardly on the internal consistency of the programme, and outwardly on its coherence with infrastructure planning, interfaces with other programmes and corporate, technical and specialist standards
- Managing the programme’s budget on behalf of the SRO, monitoring expenditure and costs against delivered and realised benefits as the programme progresses
- Ensuring there is allocation of common resources and skills within the programme’s individual projects
- Ensuring there is allocation of common resources and skills within the programme’s individual projects
- Reporting the progress of the programme at regular intervals to the SRO if this role is also defined
Additional Skills
- Effective leadership, interpersonal and communication skills
- The ability to command respect and to create a sense of community amongst the members of the project teams
- Good knowledge of techniques for planning, monitoring and controlling programmes
- Good understanding of the procurement process including negotiation with third parties
- Sufficient seniority and credibility to advise project teams on their projects in relation to the programme