Location: Knutsford Job Type: Contract Industry: Business Transformation Job reference: BBBH437713_1777279876 Posted: about 7 hours ago
Role Title: Technical Programme Delivery Manager
Duration: contract to run until 30/11/2026
Location: Knutsford, Hybrid 3 days per week onsite
Rate: up to £558.53 p/d Umbrella inside IR35
Role purpose / summary
The VP Technical Programme Delivery Manager is accountable for the successful delivery of the IT Asset Management (ITAM) programme. A large scale, strategic programme in Group Technology Service Management (GTSM). Reporting to the Head of ITAM, the role provides strategic delivery leadership, ensuring complex change initiatives deliver measurable business outcomes while meeting regulatory, risk, and control expectations.
This role owns programme outcomes end to end, shapes delivery strategy, and acts as a senior interface between Technology, Business, Risk, and Executive stakeholders.
Key Accountabilities
Programme & Portfolio Leadership
1. Own delivery of multiple complex, interdependent technology programmes aligned to the ITAM strategic priorities
2. Set delivery strategy, governance models, and execution approach across programmes
3. Provide clear executive level oversight of progress, risks, dependencies, and outcomes
Technical & Architectural Oversight
4. Ensure programmes align to enterprise architecture, platform strategies, and technology standards
5. Partner with senior Architects, Engineers, and Security leaders to validate technical direction
6. Actively challenge designs or plans that introduce undue delivery, resilience, or control risk
Governance, Risk & Regulatory Management
7. Own senior level programme governance, reporting, and decision forums
8. Ensure compliance with internal control frameworks, audit expectations, and external regulation
9. Proactively manage material risks, issues, and regulatory commitments
Stakeholder & Executive Engagement
10. Act as the senior delivery lead for the ITAM programme
11. Influence and align senior stakeholders across Business, Technology, Risk, and Operations
12. Represent programme status and outcomes credibly at executive forums
Financial & Resource Accountability
13. Own programme budgets, investment governance, and financial forecasting
14. Ensure benefits realisation is tracked and delivered against approved business cases
15. Optimise use of internal and third party resources at scale
16. Change & Operational Readiness
17. Ensure delivered capabilities are operationally ready, resilient, and supportable
18. Drive effective transition into run and long term sustainability
Skills & Experience
Essential
19. Significant experience delivering enterprise scale technology programmes in regulated environments
20. Proven senior stakeholder and executive level engagement capability
21. Strong understanding of modern enterprise technology platforms and operating models
22. Deep experience with delivery governance, financial management, and risk control
Desirable
23. Experience leading platform or regulatory transformation programmes
24. Background working closely with Architecture, Engineering, and Service Management leadership
25. Understanding of ITAM operations
Leadership Expectations
26. Operates with authority, credibility, and calm under pressure
27. Sets delivery culture, standards, and expectations across programmes
28. Role models transparency, accountability, and disciplined execution
29. Coaches and develops senior delivery leaders
Success Measures
30. Delivery of strategic programmes to agreed outcomes, timelines, and investment cases
31. Positive regulatory, audit, and risk outcomes
32. Strong executive confidence in delivery predictability and control
33. Sustainable operational outcomes with minimal post delivery remediation
All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!