Programme Manager

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Job Title: Programme Manager - Capital Projects & Transformation

Location: Bristol / 2 days per week on site
Contract: 6 months with posibility for extension

Role Purpose

The Programme Manager is engaged on a contract basis to take full accountability for the planning, execution, and delivery of capital projects, ensuring that outcomes, benefits, and transformation objectives are achieved. This includes embedding process, technology, and organisational change where required.

The candidate must be able to operate autonomously, provide clear leadership, and deliver tangible results in a complex, regulated utilities environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end ownership of assigned capital projects, ensuring delivery of agreed outcomes, benefits, and transformation objectives
• Define and maintain project scope, plans, schedules, and milestones aligned to programme and capital governance
• Plan, coordinate, and manage internal teams, SMEs, and third-party delivery partners
• Manage dependencies, risks, issues, and change across the project lifecycle
• Lead engagement with senior stakeholders up to Executive level, providing clear insights, options, and recommendations
• Oversee project financials including CAPEX tracking, forecasting, and cost control
• Ensure readiness for stage gates, regulatory approvals, and investment committee submissions
• Maintain required PMO artefacts (e.g., project plans, RAID logs, action logs, financial reports)
• Ensure transformation initiatives (process, technology, organisational change) embedded in project delivery are successfully implemented
• Drive resolution of cross-functional issues and conflicts
• Provide accurate, timely reporting on project progress, risks, and benefits realisation

Mandatory Experience & Skills

• Extensive experience delivering capital projects in the utilities sector (electricity, gas, water, or similar regulated infrastructure)
• Mandatory experience delivering transformation initiatives alongside capital projects
• Proven track record of end-to-end project delivery, with accountability for achieving outcomes and benefits
• Experience working in regulated, asset-intensive environments
• Strong governance, risk, dependency, and benefits management expertise
• Senior stakeholder management experience, including Executive-level engagement
• Strong financial management skills, including CAPEX oversight and reporting
• Excellent communication, leadership, and decision-making skills
• Ability to operate independently and deliver results in a fast-paced, matrix environment

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