Programme Manager
Basingstoke based – 5 days a week
Your role will involve
Our purpose is to make the world more sustainable by building trust in society through innovation. As a Programme Manager, you will play a key role in delivering programmes that safeguard the UK, support citizens, and enable transformation in secure and highly regulated environments. You will collaborate across customers and partners, ensuring delivery excellence, trusted relationships, and agility in every engagement.
Reporting to the Programme Director, you will contribute to the success of delivery by leading specific transition, transformation, agile, or recovery programmes, providing trusted delivery assurance and governance expertise.
Key Responsibilities
Programme Delivery & Leadership
Manage multi-disciplinary delivery teams across direct and matrix structures, including partners, subcontractors, and customer-side teams.
Apply appropriate Agile and hybrid delivery methods (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Waterfall + Agile) and foster a culture of agility, collaboration, and continuous improvement across the delivery community.
Governance, Risk & Assurance
Maintain robust programme governance, integrated planning, clearly documented requirements, RAID management, and benefits tracking – in line with the wider delivery, governance, and assurance frameworks.
Collaborate with PMO, Major Programmes, Frameworks, and Accounts teams to ensure governance and assurance frameworks are consistently applied and followed across all engagements.
Ensure compliance with delivery standards including JSPs, export controls, accreditation regimes, JSP440, ISO27001, and GDS frameworks.
Provide assurance of in-flight programmes through regular reviews, health checks, and clear escalation where required.
Identify, assess, and mitigate programme risks proactively, ensuring transparency and accountability at all stages. Ensured that the impact on the Business Line Profit & Loss due to project activities within the scope of the project is clearly visible and that all contingency usage is signed-off by the appropriate governance authority. Project Board
Accountable for tracking the project costs and supporting Business Units in meeting payment milestones.
Ensure that the milestone achievements are signed by the customer and relevant invoices are raised.
Planning, Reporting & Financial Management
Develop and maintain detailed programme / change schedules, resource plans, and financial forecasts.
Provide accurate, timely, and transparent reporting to internal leadership and customer stakeholders.
Ensure delivery plans are integrated and data-driven, enabling early identification of risks, dependencies, and improvement opportunities.
Support financial governance and reporting to enable informed decision-making and value-driven outcomes.
Customer & Partner Engagement
Build trusted relationships and act as a delivery partner to customers, suppliers, and ecosystem partners.
Promote collaboration, transparency, and shared accountability to strengthen confidence in programme delivery.
Ensure effective communication and engagement across internal and external stakeholders, enabling alignment and partnership at all levels.
Continuous Improvement & Knowledge Sharing
Capture lessons learned and embedded them into future transitions and delivery cycles to drive continuous improvement.
Contribute to improvement initiatives, collaborating with PMO and Major Programmes teams to strengthen overall delivery maturity and performance.
Key skills and experience:
Significant experience in leading complex programmes in Defence, National Security, or other secure/highly regulated environments (. government, aerospace).
Strong working knowledge of Agile and hybrid delivery frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, iterative delivery in gated environments).
Demonstrable capability in end-to-end programme management including integrated planning, RAID management, dependency control, and assurance governance.
Experience working across a range of technology and transformation initiatives.
Experience operating as part of a Centre of Excellence or multi-programme delivery function, providing assurance, governance, or recovery leadership across multiple concurrent initiatives.
Proven ability to manage multi-disciplinary delivery teams in matrix structures, including supplier ecosystems.
Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively at senior levels (. CxO, MoD senior civil service).
Experience navigating Defence, Security, or Government governance and assurance frameworks (. MOD Defence frameworks, GDS Service Manual, ISO, CAF, NIST, IPA Gateway Reviews).
Experience supporting bids with programme management capabilities (. transition planning, cost/resource modelling, governance framework definition, and risk/dependency management).
Professional certification in MSP, PMI-ACP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, ITIL, and/or other Agile frameworks.
This role will require you to become security cleared to a high level. Please visit
Please note: It’s still worth applying even if you do not meet all the requirements above. We are passionate about investing in you and your career and if you have the transferable skills/ background in project management this could be the next opportunity for you.
Your benefits:
26 Days annual leave plus public holidays (3 flexible)
Pension – Double matching contributions of up to 10%
Life assurance
Companywide incentive plans
Your choices (Flexible benefits such as increased holidays/ travel/ dental critical illness and more)
Perks at work – employee discounts
Employee assistance programme/ virtual GP