Programme Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Own the data program plan: roadmap, milestones, dependencies, risks, and delivery cadence
• Partner with the Head of Data to translate business priorities and Consumer demand into an actionable book of work
• Drive prioritization across roughly twenty-five platforms and 100–125 data products, balancing value, readiness, complexity, and capacity
• Coordinate platform Suppliers, Data Stewards, Data Quality, Data Architecture, and Data Engineering to onboard data products through the ‘data machine’
• Monitor progress, SLAs, and blockers, driving issue resolution and escalations to keep delivery on track
• Build governance, reporting, and executive communications covering outcomes, resources, budget, and performance
• Improve the operating model by increasing throughput, compressing cycle time, and scaling delivery

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• Proven experience managing complex programs or transformation initiatives, ideally within data, technology, financial services, or platform operations
• Strong program management discipline: planning, controls, governance, RAID, dependency management, and SteerCo-level reporting
• Skilled at translating business priorities into delivery plans across consumer, supplier, and technology teams
• Able to coordinate multiple stakeholders and delivery functions in a matrixed environment
• Working understanding of data lifecycle concepts: onboarding, cataloging, quality, stewardship, pipelines, and standards; sufficient to coordinate technical teams effectively
• Commercially minded, comfortable balancing value, risk, urgency, capacity, and delivery trade-offs
• Resourceful self-starter with strong ownership, communication, and stakeholder management skills
• Comfortable operating amid ambiguity and helping stand up a new function from the ground up