Programme Delivery Manager

Programme Planning Delivery Own and maintain the integrated Unity programme plan across all workstreams, deployment waves and implementation sites Coordinate cross functional delivery activities and ensure alignment across programme streams. Monitor progress against milestones, deliverables and key programme objectives.

Drive accountability for programme actions and commitments, ensuring issues are resolved in a timely manner Facilitate programme planning workshops and support effective prioritisation of activities. Identify and manage interdependencies across workstreams, sites and deployment waves. Support the Programme Lead in driving delivery performance and ensuring programme objectives are achieved.

Programme Governance Coordinate programme governance forums including Steering Committees, Programme Boards, Design Authority meetings, Stage Gates and deployment readiness reviews. Develop and maintain programme dashboards, KPIs, status reports and executive reporting packs. Ensure programme controls, standards, templates and reporting processes are consistently applied.

Maintain programme documentation, audit trails and governance records. Prepare agendas, meeting packs, minutes and action logs for governance forums. Ensure decisions, actions and escalations are captured, tracked and progressed to closure. Risk, Issue Dependency Management Manage programme RAID processes, ensuring risks, assumptions, issues, decisions and dependencies are accurately maintained.

Support the identification, assessment, mitigation and escalation of programme risks and issues. Monitor programme health and highlight areas requiring intervention or management action. Provide constructive challenge and delivery assurance to workstream leads and programme stakeholders. Deployment Readiness Management Coordinate deployment planning and readiness assessments across all programme workstreams.

Consolidate readiness inputs from testing, data migration, business change, process, infrastructure, technical and training workstreams. Support go/no-go decision-making processes through the provision of accurate readiness reporting. Ensure deployment activities are planned, coordinated and executed in alignment with programme milestones.

Facilitate lessons learned activities and drive continuous improvement across deployment waves. Financial Resource Management Support programme budgeting, forecasting and financial tracking activities. Monitor programme expenditure and assist with reporting against budget commitments. Support resource planning and tracking across programme workstreams.

Coordinate vendor and implementation partner reporting where required. Stakeholder Management Build strong relationships across programme teams, business stakeholders, site leadership teams and external partners. Act as a key point of coordination across workstreams and deployment teams. Communicate programme progress, risks and priorities clearly to stakeholders and senior leadership.

Manage programme actions, decisions, assumptions, risks, issues and dependencies. Produce programme reports, dashboards, KPIs and delivery metrics to support decision-making. Support programme budgeting, forecasting and financial tracking. Coordinate deployment planning, readiness assessments and go/no-go activities across all workstreams.

Ensure programme plans, milestones and dependencies are accurately maintained and aligned. Support the management of implementation partners and third-party vendors. Drive consistency in programme governance, reporting standards and documentation. Facilitate lessons learned and continuous improvement activities. Provide delivery assurance, challenge and support to workstream leads where appropriate.