Associate Director – Programme Management

Key Responsibilities

• Programme Leadership & Direction: Take end-to-end ownership of shaping, embedding, and communicating programme vision and direction. Effectively empower, motivate, and guide high-performing teams to drive success and cohesion across delivery activities.
• Assurance Framework: Maintain and deliver frameworks for robust management and control of the programme. Manage critical programme functions/services within the wider controls framework, and a focus on outcomes and the realisation of benefits back to the business case and organisational strategy.
• Commission Management and Business Development: Lead the successful commercial and contractual management of commissions, ensuring delivery excellence, client satisfaction and achievement of performance objectives. Develop trusted client partnerships, identify strategic growth opportunities and actively contribute to business development and market expansion activities.
• Stakeholder Strategy & Engagement: Create structured stakeholder engagement and decision-making frameworks, ensuring all programme stakeholders across seniority are effectively engaged and managed.
• Financial Leadership: Develop and implement robust processes to manage and report on all financial aspects of the programme, ensuring strong oversight and commercial governance. Oversee financial governance, ensuring robust financial reporting and management across the programme.
• Risk Strategy, Health & Safety Leadership: Identify and mitigate health and safety risks, enforcing safeguards to protect all involved in programme delivery. Lead the development and implementation of programme-wide risk management and assurance strategies. Champion a culture of safety, wellbeing and compliance, ensuring effective controls are in place to protect people, assets and programme objectives.
• People & Culture: Act as a first-class colleague and leader, establishing and positively contributing to the culture of internal and client-facing teams, and in internal talent development. Build capability, mentor teams, drive inclusion across the team and successfully carry out people management responsibilities to drive internal team performance and growth and our One Business culture.
• This is an Associate Director level role. To excel in this role, you will have:
• Proven experience delivering complex transformation/real estate programmes (£100-£300m+) with demonstrable achievement of tangible benefits and outcomes for clients/employers.