Senior Programme Manager

• Location: London or Manchester (Hybrid)
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Hybrid (typically 2 days per week in the office)
• Competitive Salary + Benefits

Our client is seeking an experienced Senior Programme Manager to play a key leadership role within a large-scale, multi-year enterprise transformation portfolio.

The Role

This role sits at the heart of a funded, senior-sponsored transformation that is fundamentally reshaping end-to-end services, operating models, technology, data, and organisational capability. The organisation has completed the early foundations of change and is now scaling delivery to realise long-term benefits.

As a Senior Programme Manager, you will provide leadership across complex initiatives, shape delivery approaches, and support the maturity of the wider programme management capability.

Key Responsibilities

• Owning and leading large, complex programmes or critical elements of a transformation portfolio
• Providing senior-level oversight of delivery, governance, risks, interdependencies, and benefits
• Influencing and challenging senior stakeholders to ensure alignment with strategic priorities
• Translating strategic objectives into clear, deliverable roadmaps and outcomes
• Supporting and coaching Programme Managers and Project Managers within your programme
• Contributing to portfolio-level planning, prioritisation, and continuous improvement of delivery practices
• Acting as a trusted partner to business leaders, enabling change rather than driving it in isolation

About you

• Significant experience as a Senior Programme Manager or equivalent, delivering enterprise-scale transformation
• Proven track record of leading complex, multi-disciplinary change across business, technology, and data
• Strong governance, financial management, risk, and assurance experienceAbility to operate confidently at senior leadership and board-facing levels
• Comfortable working in ambiguity, making trade-offs, and managing competing priorities
• A collaborative leader with strong coaching and influencing skills
• Sector experience is not essential, but experience delivering large-scale transformation is key.

Why Apply?

• Leadership role within an end-to-end operating model transformation
• Long-term, funded change with strong executive sponsorship
• Opportunity to shape how transformation is delivered, not just what is delivered
• Broad exposure across service design, technology, data, and organisational change
• A chance to help build and mature a programme management capability

This role suits a Senior Programme Manager who has led transformation at scale and is motivated by shaping outcomes, developing others, and delivering lasting organisational change. If you’re looking for influence, complexity, and long-term impact, this role offers all three.

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