Job title: Technical Programme Manager – Workstream Lead
Contract: 6 Months
Location: London (Paddington, Hybrid)
IR35: Inside
Sector: Retail
As a Technical Programme Manager, you support complex cross team initiatives and programmes, ensuring work progresses smoothly through effective planning, coordination and removal of delivery impediments
.
As a programme manager you will be accountable for leading the end to end delivery of a defined workstream on the client implementation of SAP. You will build and manage the plan ensuring successful delivery across design, build, test, deployment, and stabilisation. You help identify pain points and delivery inefficiencies, support agile ways of working, and strengthen sequencing, dependency management and escalation mechanisms within and across teams. You provide practical delivery support through tracking progress, coordinating ceremonies, managing programme budgets, supporting release activities and ensuring clarity of prioritie
s.
Working closely with business process owners, solution architects, functional and technical teams, data and integration leads, and third-party partners, you will drive execution across the full delivery lifecycle helping to maintain delivery flow, transparency and discipline, managing risks, decisions, and trade-offs to achieve a successful business-ready implementati
on.
Key accountabilities, responsibilities, and meas
ures• Lead the end-to-end delivery of an SAP workstream or module, ensuring scope, plan, and deliverables are aligned to programme objecti
ves.• Translate function and technical requirements and solution design decisions for the assigned SAP module into clear, executable workstream pl
ans.• Establish and maintain workstream governance, delivery cadence, status reporting, RAID management, and decision forums, ensuring the client Way of Delivery standards and practices are achi
eved• Drive team delivery effectiveness by identifying pain points and inefficiencies within teams, actively removing blockers to improve delivery f
low.• Support effective agile ways of working, including planning, ceremonies, prioritisation and delivery discipl
ine.• Manage dependencies across other SAP workstreams, legacy systems, integration points, data migration activities, and third-party suppli
ers.• Proactively identify, manage, and escalate risks, issues, and decisions, driving timely mitigation and resolut
ion.• Assess the impact of changes to scope, process design, timelines, or dependencies and communicate implications clearly to stakehold
ers.• Drive delivery transparency and track and communicate team delivery progress, supporting clarity of priorities, milestones and outco
mes.• Coordinate workstream activities through design, build, SIT, UAT, cutover, deployment, and hypercare, ensuring readiness for go-live and transition into supp
ort.• Drive capability development, contributing to continuous improvement across people, process and tool
ing.
Key
skills• Strong delivery coordination skills and project/ programme management expe
rience• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale implementation delivery across business processes, cross-functional teams, and multiple project p
hases.• Strong understanding of SAAS product delivery lifecycles, process design, integrations, data migration, testing, and deployment activities. – SAP experience pre
ferred• Good working knowledge of programme management tooling such as Jira, Mond
ay.com• Ability to identify delivery pain points and inefficiencies and actively remove blo
ckers.• Solid understanding of agile ways of working, including planning, ceremonies and prioritis
ation.• Strong sequencing and dependency management capability, supporting cross team coordin
ation.• Delivery tracking and facilitation skills, ensuring progress, risks and issues are vi
sible.• Effective escalation awareness, knowing when and how to surface
risks.• Collaborative working style, partnering closely with Product and Engineering colle
agues.• Financial and commercial awareness, supporting efficient delivery and value for
money.• Learning mindset, seeking continuous improvement across people, process and
tools.• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to influence senior business and programme leade
rship.
Key relationships and stak
eholders• Programme Leadership – Guidance, prioritisation and escalation
support.• Product Manager / Senior Product Manager – Day to day coordination on planning, priorities and delivery p
rogress.• Engineering Managers and Engineers – Collaboration on execution, impediment removal and dependency man
agement.• Global process owners - Day to day coordination on planning, priorities and delivery progress including business risks and trade off d
ecisions• Workstream leads – Shared coordination, learning and consistency of delivery pr
actices.• Architecture, Platform and Security teams – Input to resolving dependencies and delivery cons
traints.• Business stakeholders (as appropriate) – Communication of delivery progress and
issues.• Suppliers or third party teams (where applicable) – Operational coordination at tea
m level.• TPM Community – Learning, support and continuous impr
ovement.