Location: Basingstoke Job Type: Contract Industry: Business Transformation Job reference: BBBH432161_1771267328 Posted: 6 minutes ago ...
Lead Programme Manager - Contract Re-Award SC
Clearance Required: SC and must be willing to go through DV
An opportunity is available for an experienced Lead Programme Manager to take ownership of a critical contract re-award programme within a secure and regulated environment.
This is a delivery-focused role requiring strong control, structure, and senior stakeholder engagement to drive re-award activity through to contract signature and immediate mobilisation.
The Role - Lead Programme Manager
You will be responsible for the end-to-end coordination and delivery of re-award activities, ensuring the programme progresses in a controlled and defensible manner despite tight timelines and evolving requirements.
Key Accountabilities
Re-Award Programme Delivery
1. Own the integrated re-award programme plan, milestones, dependencies, and critical path.
2. Coordinate commercial, finance, delivery, technical, and assurance workstreams.
3. Maintain visibility of progress, risks, slippage, and contractual impacts.
Planning, Tracking and Control
4. Develop and maintain detailed plans, trackers, and status reporting.
5. Ensure disciplined RAID, assumptions, dependency, and decision management.
6. Drive clarity on ownership and accountability across deliverables.
Governance and Reporting
7. Operate governance forums, reviews, and decision gates.
8. Provide clear reporting to Programme Director, senior leadership, and customer stakeholders.
9. Escalate risks early with defined mitigation options and trade-offs.
Stakeholder Management
10. Act as the coordination point between delivery teams and senior leadership.
11. Support preparation for customer reviews and assurance activities.
12. Manage competing priorities across multiple teams.
Post-Signature Readiness
13. Support mobilisation and transition planning immediately post-signature.
14. Ensure continuity between re-award outputs and live delivery execution.
Essential Experience
15. Must have Bids expweirence
16. An expert in delivery of governance and RIGGOR
17. Proven experience delivering large, complex programmes with multiple stakeholders.
18. Strong planning, coordination, and governance capability.
19. Experience operating in high-pressure, time-constrained environments.
20. Confident communicator with senior stakeholders.
21. Experience in contract re-award or bid-to-delivery transition.
22. Experience within defence, government, or regulated sectors.
This role suits a disciplined Lead Programme Manager who thrives in structured governance environments and is comfortable operating at pace in secure programmes.