Enterprise Program Manager

Company: Albany Beck

Location: London (Hybrid)

About Albany Beck

Albany Beck is a Management Consultancy focused on providing specialist talent and transformative solutions to Financial Services clients. We combine subject matter expertise with innovative delivery models that help clients scale efficiently, while offering meaningful, long-term career opportunities to our people. At Albany Beck, you’ll be choosing to work with an organisation that’s passionate about your learning journey and committed to your professional and personal development.

Role Overview

Albany Beck is growing its Enterprise Transformation capability and is seeking an experienced Enterprise Programme Manager to lead the introduction of structured programme governance across a complex, multi-initiative environment. This role will be responsible for establishing programme management office (PMO) discipline where none currently exists, bringing structure, visibility, and control to a portfolio of approximately 40 transformation initiatives aligned across 7 strategic outcomes. You will play a critical role in shifting the organisation away from reactive project delivery towards a coordinated, enterprise-wide transformation approach. Operating within a vertically aligned CIO structure and a global technology estate, you will ensure initiatives are properly governed, prioritised, and delivered with clear accountability and alignment to strategic objectives. This is a senior transformation leadership role suited to someone who has operated in complex, regulated environments and is confident introducing delivery frameworks, governance structures, and executive-level reporting.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and embed an enterprise programme governance framework across multiple transformation initiatives
• Build and introduce programme management office (PMO) capability from the ground up
• Coordinate and manage a portfolio of c.40 initiatives aligned to 7 strategic enterprise outcomes
• Drive structured oversight of programme dependencies, risks, prioritisation, and reporting
• Introduce delivery discipline, governance forums, and standardised programme management practices
• Transition delivery culture from reactive project execution to structured transformation management
• Ensure alignment across vertically structured CIO organisations and multiple technology teams
• Provide clear and consistent executive-level reporting and programme visibility
• Support decision-making across senior stakeholders and governance boards
• Oversee coordination of enterprise replatforming and infrastructure modernisation initiatives
• Embed consistency in delivery approach across a global technology estate

Key Skills & Experience

• Proven experience as an Enterprise Programme Manager or Transformation Lead in large-scale organisations
• Strong track record of establishing or enhancing PMO and programme governance structures
• Experience managing complex, multi-stream transformation portfolios in regulated environments
• Background in enterprise technology transformation, infrastructure, or platform modernisation
• Experience operating within large, matrixed organisations with CIO-led structures
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage and influence senior leadership
• Ability to bring structure, governance, and clarity to fast-paced or reactive delivery environments
• Excellent understanding of programme reporting, dependency management, and prioritisation frameworks
• Experience working within global or multi-regional technology estates
• Strong leadership, communication, and organisational skills with an enterprise mindset