quantexa - Programme Manager - UK Government
Requirements
• You are an accomplished programme management professional with a strong track record of leading and delivering large, complex technology or data programmes spanning multiple teams, workstreams and releases. • You have led customer-facing delivery in a consultancy, professional services, systems integrator or enterprise technology environment and are credible with senior executives and programme sponsors. • You have strong commercial judgement and experience owning programme P&L and commercial performance, including budgets, forecasting, margin, contracts, change control and resource and capacity planning. • You understand the full software delivery lifecycle and the factors required to deliver secure, high-quality and operationally stable enterprise platforms. • You are experienced in Agile delivery and can apply the right blend of Agile, iterative and programme controls across multiple teams and dependencies. • You are adept at leading in complex ecosystems involving customer teams, product and engineering functions, consulting teams and delivery partners., establishing clear accountability and alignment across organisations. • You communicate with clarity and gravitas, can simplify complex topics, influence senior stakeholders and challenge constructively to drive decisions and achieve the right outcome. • You bring strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills and can navigate ambiguity, make effective trade-offs and resolve complex delivery and commercial challenge while maintaining momentum and control. • You are a collaborative, emotionally intelligent leader who inspires others, develops talent and creates an inclusive, accountable culture. • Experience delivering programmes within Government or the wider Public Sector, particularly UK Central Government, would be advantageous. • Existing clearance to work within UK Government environments would be advantageous, with BPSS and ideally SC clearance. • Experience delivering data, analytics, AI, decision intelligence, financial crime, customer intelligence or public-sector transformation programmes would be advantageous. • A recognised programme or project management qualification such as MSP, PgMP, PRINCE2 or PMP would be beneficial.
Responsibilities
• Provide strategic direction and leadership for complex Quantexa programmes, setting clear objectives, priorities, success measures and an executable roadmap aligned with the customer’s strategic objectives and desired business outcomes. • Establish the programme organisation, governance forums, roles, controls and reporting, coordinating dependent projects, workstreams, releases, with clear accountability across Quantexa, customer and partner delivery teams. • Drive successful outcomes, owning value realisation and ensuring the programme delivers measurable business outcomes for the customer in the most effective and commercially sustainable way. • Own an integrated programme plan covering scope, milestones, dependencies, resources, critical path, risks and benefits, identifying roadblocks early, managing programme level risks and escalationsand driving corrective action. • Build trusted relationships with customer executives, programme sponsors and delivery leaders, influencing decisions and maintaining alignment across Quantexa, the customer and delivery partners. • Enable customers and partners to build the capability to adopt, operate and extend Quantexa successfully. • Take full ownership of P&L and commercial performance including budgets, forecasts, revenue, margin, contracts, change control, , resource and capacity planning and the cost-effective use of people and resources. • Embed Quantexa delivery methodologies, quality controls and best practice across the programme, ensuring solutions are operationally stable and aligned to current product capabilities and recommended technology. • Set the culture for collaboration, accountability and wellbeing, coaching Project Managers and cross-functional leads and resolving delivery tensions constructively. • Provide concise executive reporting on programme status, outcomes, financials, risks, decisions and key metrics, with clear recommendations and actions. • Identify opportunities to expand customer value and support account growth through delivery, improve delivery effectiveness and strengthen Quantexa’s programme management capability through lessons learned and reusable practice assets.
Benefits
• What makes you Q will help you to realize your full potential, flourish and enjoy what you do, while being recognized and rewarded with our broad range of benefits. • 25 days annual leave (with the option of buying up to 5 days, and rolling over up to 10), plus national holidays + your birthday off! • Pension scheme with a company contribution of 6% (when you contribute 3%) • Private Healthcare, including dental & optic cover • Life Insurance and Income Protection • Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, Adoption, or Shared Parental Leave • Well-being days • Volunteer Day off • Work from Home Equipment • Commuter, Tech and cycle to work schemes • Free Subscription to a meditation, relaxation and sleep app • Continuous Training and Development • Spend up to 2 months working outside of your country of employment over a rolling 12-month period with our ‘Work from Anywhere’ policy • Team Social Budget & Company-wide Socials • We have one mission. To help businesses grow. To make data easier. And to make the world a better place. We’re not a start-up. Not anymore. But we’ve not been around that long either. What we are is a collection of bright, passionate minds harnessing complexities and helping our clients and their communities. One culture, made of many. Heading in one direction – the future.
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