Programme Manager

Enterprise Transformation | PMO Leadership | Governance | Partner Management

A leading Independent IT Infrastructure and Services Consultancy are looking for an experienced Programme Manager to provide leadership across a major enterprise transformation programme, with an emphasis on programme governance, delivery assurance, financial control, executive reporting, and partner alignment

Initial contract until the end of 2026

Inside IR35

Based in Hatfield (Onsite Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday)

This is an excellent opportunity for a senior programme professional who thrives in complex transformation environments and can confidently engage with senior stakeholders, delivery teams, and external consulting partners.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead programme governance, controls, reporting, and assurance activities across a large-scale transformation programme.
• Establish and maintain effective governance frameworks, delivery forums, reporting structures, and decision-making processes.
• Drive programme planning, RAID management, dependency tracking, milestone management, and benefits realisation.
• Support executive and board-level reporting, steering committee preparation, and governance reviews.
• Act as a key interface between internal teams and external delivery partners, ensuring alignment of plans, priorities, risks, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Manage programme budgets, forecasting, expenditure tracking, and financial reporting.
• Provide oversight of programme risks, issues, assumptions, decisions, and compliance requirements.
• Support resource planning, capacity management, and PMO best practice adoption across multiple workstreams.
• Challenge delivery plans and assumptions where required, driving transparency and accountability throughout the programme.

What We're Looking For

• A structured and highly organised programme professional with excellent governance discipline.
• Someone who can balance control with delivery pace and maintain focus on outcomes.
• A confident communicator able to engage effectively with executives, programme directors, delivery teams, and external partners.
• A collaborative leader who can build strong working relationships while constructively challenging where necessary.
• A resilient professional comfortable operating within large, fast-moving transformation environments.

Essential Experience

• Proven experience as a Programme Manager, Senior PMO Lead, or Programme Governance Lead within large-scale business or technology transformation programmes.
• Strong background in programme governance, controls, delivery assurance, executive reporting, and stakeholder management.
• Experience managing complex interdependencies across multiple workstreams and stakeholders.
• Strong financial management experience, including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and programme financial control.
• Experience working alongside major consulting or systems integration partners.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience with: Microsoft Project, Microsoft Copilot Jira & Confluence,

Desirable Experience

• Experience working within regulated or highly governed environments.
• Experience supporting SAP-enabled transformation programmes.
• Exposure to ERP, finance, supply chain, HR, data, analytics, or enterprise process transformation initiatives.
• Professional certifications - MSP, PRINCE2, PMP, APM, AgilePM, or equivalent.
• Experience operating in hybrid Agile and Waterfall delivery environments.