Programme Director

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Job reference 325048
Technology Programme Director
Competitive salary plus car allowance, healthcare, annual bonus potential, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising with service and a company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates
Permanent, Full time

London Farringdon x3 days a week

Extra Benefits

• Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave
• Discounts and offers - there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills*.
• Supportive and generous company sick pay
• Your Wellbeing - you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life. From your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice. It’s free, and it’s for everyone.
*Available only to perm employees

Technology Programme Director

Overall responsibility for value creation through delivery of multi-year programmes, projects and solutions. Lead the transition of Tech to the new Platform operating model, creating enduring and reusable assets, and establishing highly capable and effective persistently resourced and funded teams.

Key Accountabilities
To deliver the programme mission, creating business and customer value
• Lead a team (typically including Product Owners and Project Managers) across multiple workstreams 
• Manage budgets, timescales and resources, ensuring appropriate planning and dependency management, monitoring and reporting
• Provide Assurance to appropriate parties, indicating deviations, risks and mitigations and issues, and proposing solutions where needed.
• Managing and where appropriate embed third party suppliers within multi-disciplinary teams to achieve the desired programme outcomes and facilitate knowledge transfer
• Co-create, prioritise and communicate roadmap and backlog, driving alignment with other programmes
• Collaborate with and influence stakeholders, including those at or just below board level and across the wider organisation
• Build alignment on priorities
• Develop and maintain clear roadmap to deliver programme mission
• Lead the transition to the new way of working
• Orchestrate the transition of existing programmes and teams to RMs platform operating model
• Establish effective multi-disciplinary teams, embedding suppliers and building capability
• Role model and spearhead the new way of working 

Key Skills

• Business acumen and domain expertise in a leadership role where IT and business strategy converge
• Ability to motivate multi-disciplinary teams and to influence beyond formal reporting lines
• Proven prioritization and programme management skills
• Proven acumen at managing and influencing senior stakeholders
• Experience of new way of working, or keen appetite to learn
• Familiar with navigating complex business ecosystem
• Ability to set clear vision, roadmap and priorities to guide teams to deliver business outcomes

Next Steps

The next stage of the selection process will be a face to face/virtual interview consisting of competency based and role specific questions. 

We understand that candidates may not meet all the criteria for the role. If your experience is different, but you have relevant skills we’d love to hear from you. 

Royal Mail Group is committed to inclusion and representing the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all individuals. As a proud Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant, we especially encourage applications from the Armed Forces community, including cadet instructors and spouses/partners.

We are committed to ensuring an inclusive recruitment process. If you require any adjustments to support you during the hiring process, please discuss these with your recruiter when contacted.

We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.

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Closing Date: 13th June 2025, Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.

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