Address Job Description Summary
Job Description
Programme Manager
Permanent
Location: Edinburgh (typically 2 days in the office per week, 3 from home)
Expected starting salary: £68,400 - £80,400
Closing date: Sunday 24th March
Who we are:
Global Technology Services (GTS) is Aegon's global IT partner that provides infrastructure services, information security and global/corporate application support for Aegon's businesses around the world.
From 6 locations in the US, the Netherlands, UK, and Hungary, we support 20+ country units and 24000+ employees in the world. Our support consists of a wide range of centralised global IT services such as programming, database management, project management, agile/dev/ops, and more.
We continue to maximise the value from having a clear digital and data technology platform strategy that extends our ecosystem, as an approach to digitisation, enhancing customer experience, and improving operational efficiency.
All these teams work closely together to provide innovative and digital solutions as well as critical technology support. This is essential for enabling Aegon's businesses around the globe to be innovative, digital, and competitive, efficient, and effective, and to provide the best solutions and customer experience for our customers and shareholders.
The Job:
The Programme Manager assumes a critical leadership role within the Global Technology Services’ (GTS) Strategy Execution Office, offering project and programme management, delivery assurance, consulting, health checks, and relevant guidance for pivotal programmes and projects. This role entails overseeing all aspects of strategically significant, intricate global programmes and projects that cut across business units. You will be tasked with setting goals and evaluating programme performance, encompassing project planning, execution, functionality, quality, cost, staffing, and resource allocation. Leveraging expertise and leadership acumen, plus guiding staff and resolving issues to ensure the fulfilment of programme goals and requirements. Additionally, you are accountable for managing interdependent or shared work streams across various projects within a programme.
- Lead strategic programme and project management initiatives.
- Assist in PMO governance tasks such as reporting, threshold assessments, and monitoring project health.
- Offer expert guidance throughout programme and project delivery phases, including business case development, financial analysis, scoping, risk assessment, and monitoring.
- Manage major programme initiatives, aligning them with business goals, managing interdependencies, facilitating risk management, and resolving issues.
- Direct large, complex projects to meet scope, timeline, budget, and quality commitments, overseeing decision-making, communication, and problem resolution.
- Ensure delivery assurance and health checks for strategic initiatives, assessing project direction, scope, requirements, risk, and deliverables.
- Design and implement cost-effective programme and project organisational structures.
- Develop business case documentation, including cost benefit and return on investment analysis.
- Establish formal communication methods and ensure consistent communication across all levels of the organisation.
- Provide status reports and facilitate inter-programme communication.
- Mentor and oversee other project management professionals, holding teams accountable for meeting goals.
- Lead programme and project process improvement efforts.
Working Conditions
- Some international travel required.
- May require flexible hours to accommodate global project teams.
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
- Experience managing complex multisystem and/or multiple department projects.
- Strong organisational and communication skills are vital for this role, as is the ability to adapt to diverse situations, manage conflict, resolve issues proactively, and manage time effectively.
- Developed leadership, relationship-building, negotiation, influence, and facilitation skills.
- Ability to interact effectively with staff and management at all levels, including C-level executives.
- Sound understanding of Project Management methodologies and principles, relying on strong technical and analytical abilities.
- Serve in a mentoring and leadership capacity, influencing without direct organisational authority.
- Good understanding of the insurance and financial services industry.
- Expertise in project management theory, tools, and practice.
It’d also be great – but not essential - if you’ve got:
- MSP, PMP or Prince 2 certification.
What’s in it for you?
- A starting salary from £68,400 - £80,400, depending on the experience you can bring.
- A non-contributory pension between 8%-12%.
- A discretionary bonus, depending on personal and company performance.
- 34 days leave per year (including bank holidays, pro-rated for part-time).
We also offer private medical cover, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced parental leave and a variety of lifestyle benefits to help our staff live their best lives, including retail discount vouchers, cycle2work scheme, subsidised restaurant and online GP appointments.
The legal bits
We’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing satisfactory references.
Cifas Short Fair Processing Notice (applies to UK based candidates only).
The personal information we have collected from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected, you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, and your data protection rights, can be found by visiting
www.cifas.org.uk/fpn
. Equal Opportunity Employer:
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their age, disability, race, religion/belief, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity.
