Programme Manager

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About the Role

Working directly with the CPMO management team, the CPMO Programme Manager will report to the Chief Product & Marketing Officer for the delivery of several interrelated projects that make up the programme to support the delivery of our new publishing from 2026 onwards.

The CPMO Programme Manager will work with the CPMO management team and other key stakeholders to create, lead and manage a programme to ensure all milestones remain on track and target dates are achieved for these programmes.

The CPMO Programme Manager takes responsibility for the successful delivery of the programme to quality, budget and scope, leading to and including business critical customer facing product launch and sales of new titles. The CPMO Programme Manager will assist the management team in building out an overall programme plan and engages and oversees the allocated internal resources and manages any risks and issues related to the Programme deliverables. The CMPO Programme Manager will line manage a Project Manager and work with all the wider teams to successfully deliver these programmes.

Role Responsibilities:

• Responsible to the Chief Product & Marketing Officer for the successful delivery of the programme requirements and related business benefits to the agreed time, budget, quality and scope. Blend of working with Agile technical teams and waterfall business work streams needs to be planned and taken into account.
• Management of the overall workstreams. This would include working with each of the sponsors to create workable project plans as well as chairing and driving forward information sharing and progress at regular Programme Board meetings, tracking progress against plan, writing reports, managing senior stakeholders and keeping the Programme Team and Programme Board updated on progress.
• Line management of Project Manager to deliver smaller CPMO projects
• Responsible for creating, updating, owning and implementing a full programme plan and corresponding release plans. This would include identifying the milestones, dependencies, resources, risks, issues, mitigations and deliverables. To ensure that the workstream plans are baselined and available to all team members as well as all adjacent service-providing groups. Ensuring that cross workstream communication and working groups are taking place to resolve issues.
• To create and communicate regularly to all team members and stakeholders objectives, schedules and deadlines, detailed budgets, and all other Programme parameters and constraints; during the life of the Programme, troubleshoot and respond quickly to issues to reduce impact on time / cost / quality.
• To think creatively and to be adaptive in finding solutions whilst proactively engaging with stakeholders, Programme team and suppliers to ensure any miscommunications, risks and issues are addressed and mitigated against as early as possible.

Experience, Skills & Qualifications:

Essential

• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Formal project management qualification or significant equivalent experience
• Seasoned professional with experience of business change, transformation, digital technology programmes or business side scope of product launch.
• Demonstrable experience of successful programme delivery, particularly with Agile/Waterfall hybrid projects
• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to motivate and steer programme team activity to achieve objectives
• Confident and proactive approach with the ability to self-manage and take on initiatives to pre-empt and resolve issues
• Good commercial awareness and the ability to track and manage budgets
• High levels of energy and drive, mixed with an approachable personality
• Project management disciplines and knowledge of the publishing and software development life cycles
• Understanding and experience of comprehensive risk & issue management within complex projects
• Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management across different organisational levels
• Flexible approach and the ability to adapt to fast-paced, changing environments
• Strong organisational skills with an eye for detail and accuracy
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Desirable

• Experience of working in a fluid environment
• Experience of working as part of a Global, muti-site team
• Experience of working within a structured publishing environment
• Experience of driving change management projects
• Experience of working with Senior management teams to inform, develop and implement strategic initiatives

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