Senior Programme Manager Digital / Maximo - Pontoon : Job Details

Senior Programme Manager (Digital / Maximo)UtilitiesHybrid in Warwick6 months+£850 per day

In short: This role sits within Asset Management and Operations and we're implementing IBM Maximo. We require a strong Digital Programme Manager who can deliver bespoke applications whilst also being business-driven.

In full:

Job Purpose:

A Programme Manager is responsible for leading a portfolio of interdependent projects aligned to strategic objectives. They ensure successful delivery of outcomes, manage risks, and maintain stakeholder engagement across complex initiatives. This role operates at a strategic level, often reporting to senior leadership and influencing organisational direction.

Key Accountabilities:

Programme management

• Plans, directs and co-ordinates activities to manage and implement a programme from initiation to final transition into operational, business-as-usual management.
• Plans, schedules, monitors, and reports on programme-related activities.
• Ensures appropriate and effective governance arrangements and comprehensive reporting and communication policies are in place and followed.
• Maintains an awareness of current technical developments that may provide opportunities to the programmes.
• Ensures that programmes are managed to realise agreed business benefits within agreed timescales.

Business process improvement

• Manages the execution of business process improvements.
• Analyses and designs business processes to identify alternative solutions to improve efficiency, effectiveness and exploit new technologies and automation.
• Develops graphical models of business processes to facilitate understanding and decision-making. Assesses the feasibility of business process changes and recommends alternative approaches.
• Selects, tailors and implements methods and tools for improving business processes at programme, project or team level.
• Contributes to the definition of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for business process improvement.

Organisational capability development

• Seeks out, identifies, proposes, and initiates capability improvement activities within the organisation.
• Leads substantial improvement programmes. Plans and manages the evaluation or assessment of organisational capabilities. Selects frameworks, approaches and techniques for use.
• Takes action to exploit opportunities to deliver measurable, beneficial impacts upon operational effectiveness.
• Devises solutions and leads change initiatives, including communication, transition and implementation activities.
• Monitors international, national, and sector trends to establish the needed capability.

Organisation design and implementation

• Implements organisational structure and culture change activities.
• Conducts impact assessments to ensure organisational structure and cultures are aligned to changes in processes, systems, technology and tools.
• Develops graphical representations of organisation models and structures to facilitate understanding and decision-making. Identifies and evaluates alternative solutions.
• Aligns existing organisational structures, roles, jobs, and career paths to new processes.
• Advises on implications of introducing new workplace models and tools.

Organisational change management

• Develops the change management approach and a change management plan in collaboration with sponsors, users and project teams.
• Creates and implements action plans to ensure everything is ready for the change before going live.
• Acquires change management resources and develops their capabilities to deliver the required changes.

Knowledge and experience:

• A firm understanding of agile ways of working and product delivery models, ideally with experience of using Jira and Jira Align
• Can successfully operate at Executive level, forming strong relationships and engagement as needed across all levels of the Business Entity
• A good understanding of the industry within which they are operating
• Experience of working within a heavily matrixed organisation, with the ability to drive for results
• Experience of IT strategic, investment and programme planning ensuring alignment with business strategy and priorities

Systems software life cycle engineering

Collaborates with those responsible for ongoing systems and software life cycle management to select, adopt and adapt working practices.

• Supports deployment of the working environment for systems and software life cycle working practices.

Product management

Selects, adopts and adapts appropriate product development methods, tools, and techniques.

• Analyses market and/or user research, feedback, expert opinion and usage data to understand needs and opportunities.
• Develops product propositions and determines product positioning and variants for different customer and user segments.
• Prioritises product and service requirements, develops product roadmaps and owns the product backlog.
• Coordinates customer testing and product launches and supports communications and training. Anticipates changes in customer/user needs.

Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly. Pontoon is an employment consultancy and operates as an equal opportunities employer.