Deputy Programme Director – Defence

Description

The Programme Director will be responsible for ensuring joined up delivery across the multi-faceted Programme team. The postholder will offer both a clear line of sight into overall progress and pinch points at the strategic level, while being able to act as an empowered deputy helping to support the multitude of governance and stakeholder meetings in this critical phase of the programme.

Working closely with other members of Leadership Team, to ensure new issues arising are captured and worked through into existing ways of working. The post holder will work particularly closely with the programme leads for HR, Finance and Commercial functional design, Transformation Business Change, commercial lead and Project Management Office, factoring in multiple drivers into the high-level programme plan and priorities.

They will need to build and maintain strong relationships with senior stakeholders across the cluster and other central government professional hubs, especially to support the PD tos hape the operating environment. Provide effective and strategic Programme Delivery leadership and support to the PD as necessary.

The post will need to be able to drive strong leadership. The total number of people working across the programmes exceeds 130 colleagues, including Civil Servants and consultants, change professionals and other corporate professional teams. These groups need to work as a coherent team and will be based across the country at multiple sites. There will be a blend of employees and contractors working across multi-disciplinary teams including Finance, HR, Commercial, Digital, Analytical, Operational and Project Delivery disciplines.

Support the PD to build a high performing, inclusive and multi-disciplinary programme team comprising HR, Finance, Digital, Change and Commercial professionals both embedded and in partnership roles from the 4 Departments, working closely with the Departmental Programme Directors and their departmental teams.

Requirements:
• Programme Performance & Controls – drive success criteria, set project controls and be accountable for performance. Monitor and control progress, leadership of the delivery across the programmes in the Portfolio – providing matrix management to the programme managers heading up each of the critical workstreams.
• Provide effective leadership and management controls. Set project controls and ‘stop / go’ decision points. Design programme schedule and at each stage and manage change within it. Set appropriate delivery methodologies. Manage effective transition between phases and working with local programme managers dependencies across programmes.

What we are looking for;
• Experience of large-scale Oracle Fusion ERP Implementations (Ideally
defence/public sector environment)
• A proven track record of highly complex portfolios and transformations across
shared services, HR, Finance and Commercial.