Programme Delivery Manager

Programme Planning & Delivery

Programme Governance

Risk, Issue & Dependency Management

Deployment & Readiness Management

Financial & Resource Management

Stakeholder Management

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.