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Human Capital Partners are working exclusively with a leading professional services company to recruit their Programme Manager. The successful candidate will lead the end-to-end delivery of one or more programmes and willensure project outputs are fully adopted to enable benefits realisation.The role holder will be responsible for defining the programme structure, budget, resource requirements, delivery phasing, transition planning and benefit tracking mechanisms.
The successful candidate will possess:
- Proven experience of managing business change or digital delivery programmes working in collaboration with 3rd party suppliers and internal IT teams
- Significant experience in programme management
- Leadership and development of people within a change management function
- Leading and managing complex teams /or business units in a matrix structure
- Problem solving in collaboration with business Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and partners
- Managed programmes with budgets in between £100k - £10M
Role profile:
- To build and maintain strong relationships with the business, senior stakeholders and external stakeholders and PMO to ensure the delivery and governance of a programme or programmes of change to agreed scope, time, cost and quality
- Work with programme sponsors to define measures and gain business buy in for adoption of deliverables to ensure programme benefits are defined, agreed and accepted and can be tracked.
- To demonstrate effective governance of programme risk and issue management to ensure that risks to delivery and benefit realisation are understood and mitigated or accepted
- To effectively champion and support change processes and tools to ensure best practice is adopted across the wider change team and provide quality management of the delivery approach
- To provide and manage appropriately controlled environments and release management process to support change programmes
- Keep abreast of evolving legislation and best practice; recommend opportunities for the business to become more efficient and effective and maintain complaint with relevant regulations.
- Provide leadership across the Portfolio, Programmes and Project department and in particular their Programme team to deliver programme outcomes that support portfolio delivery, overall corporate strategy and business performance.
- To lead and develop the individuals within their Programme team or allocated structures that reinforces the desired culture of supportive and highly engaged teams with a focus on career development.
Essential qualifications and training:
- Educated to degree standard and/or relevant experience and professional qualifications
- MSP Qualification
- Desirable: Lean Six Sigma qualification, AGILE Qualification, PRINCE2 Qualification
