Job Title: Programme Manager
Location: Southam, South Warwickshire
Salary: c£50k (Depending on Experience)
Contract: Full-time, Permanent, onsite (37.5 hours per week)
Start Date: Immediate
The Role
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Programme Manager to lead the successful delivery of customer facing programme with blue-chip clients. The role shall be focused on all three elements of the business, Retention, Regeneration and Reinvention.
Reporting directly to the Chief Programme Officer and working closely with the Executive Team, the Programme Manager will be responsible for planning, governance, stakeholder management, programme reporting, financial tracking and delivery assurance across a portfolio of projects.
The successful candidate will ensure projects are delivered safely, on time, within budget and in alignment with customer, commercial and business objectives.
This is a highly visible role requiring strong programme management discipline, technical curiosity, commercial awareness and the ability to manage demanding clients.
Key Responsibilities
Point of contact for Customer programmes
Lead the delivery of customer facing programmes from project initiation through to completion.
Establish and maintain programme governance, reporting structures and delivery controls.
Develop and maintain schedules, milestones and deliverables.
Coordinate programme activities across internal functions.
Monitor programme performance and implement corrective actions where required.
Create monthly status reports for discussion and review at the programme reviews
Provide support, guidance, training, and mentoring to apprentices
Commercial & Financial Control
Track programme budgets, forecasts and expenditure against baseline.
Work closely with Finance to monitor programme financial performance.
Maintain accurate Estimates at Completion (EAC), actual cost of work performed (ACWP) and be confident controlling project spend
Manage change and scope and document well
Risk, Opportunity & Governance Management
Maintain programme risk and opportunity registers.
Lead programme-level problem-solving activities.
Escalate key issues appropriately and develop mitigation plans.
Ensure governance processes are followed consistently across all projects.
Reporting & Communications
Produce programme dashboards and management reports.
Be confident and direct with clients
Provide clear communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Skills & Experience
Essential
Proven experience managing customer programmes or projects in engineering, manufacturing, automotive, technology or industrial energy sectors.
Strong understanding of programme and project controls.
Experience in managing budgets, forecasts and financial reporting.
Demonstrable experience in stakeholder management across multiple organisations.
Experience preparing project reports and presentations.
Strong risk and opportunity management capability.
Excellent planning and organisational skills.
Ability to work independently within a fast-growing SME environment.
Strong and robust and happy to lead client meetings and address issues head-on
Experience of working within an OEM, and supplier environment
Desirable
Knowledge of battery technology, electrification, recycling, circular economy or clean technology sectors.
Manufacturing or industrial automation experience.
PRINCE2 Practitioner, MSP, PMP or equivalent programme management qualification.
Personal Attributes
Passion for sustainability, clean technology and environmental impact.
Strong, robust straight-talking individual with excellent interpersonal skills.
Comfortable operating in a dynamic and rapidly growing business.
Proactive and solutions-focused mindset.
Highly organised with strong attention to detail.
Commercially aware and able to balance operational priorities.
Confident communicator capable of engaging customers, partners, funders and senior leadership.
Collaborative, adaptable and resilient under pressure.
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