SC Cleared - Transformation Programme Manager

Job Title: Transformation Programme Manager
Location: Hybrid working with occasional travel to Basingstoke and London (typically 2-3 days onsite per week, flexibility available)
Duration: Initial 6 month contract
Rate: £600+ per day via an approved umbrella company
Clearance: SC Clearance

Are you an experienced Transformation Programme Manager with a track record of delivering complex, cross-functional transformation initiatives? Our client is seeking a hands-on delivery professional to establish and manage the governance, planning, reporting, and control environment across a major transformation portfolio.

Reporting to the Head of Transformation, you will play a pivotal role in coordinating multiple transformation initiatives, ensuring clear governance, managing risks and dependencies, and providing executive-level reporting across the programme landscape.

What you'll be doing:

• Creating and maintaining the integrated transformation roadmap, programme plan, milestones, and dependency map.
• Coordinating multiple transformation initiatives and project teams across the portfolio.
• Establishing governance frameworks, reporting cycles, and programme controls.
• Producing executive-level reporting packs, dashboards, and programme updates.
• Managing programme-level RAID logs, dependencies, risks, issues, and recovery plans.
• Providing oversight across operating model, business process, data, and technology transformation workstreams.
• Coordinating delivery activities across project managers, business analysts, consultants, and specialist resources.
• Supporting operating model implementation and ensuring alignment across people, process, governance, technology, and data initiatives.
• Working closely with Benefits, Change, and Finance leads to provide a single consolidated view of programme performance.
• Driving delivery momentum, identifying constraints early, and supporting recovery actions where required.
  

What you'll bring:

• Proven experience managing large-scale transformation programmes or portfolios.
• Strong programme governance, planning, RAID management, and dependency management expertise.
• Experience delivering operating model, organisational, business process, data, or technology-enabled transformation.
• Ability to consolidate complex delivery information into clear executive-level reporting and decision-making materials.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the confidence to challenge senior leaders constructively.
• Experience working alongside Change, Benefits, and Finance teams within large transformation environments.
• Excellent communication, coordination, and implementation management capabilities.
• Experience within Defence, Government, National Security, or other highly regulated environments would be advantageous.
  

This is an excellent opportunity to join a significant transformation programme and take ownership of integrated planning, governance, programme control, and delivery coordination across a diverse and complex portfolio of change initiatives.

Apply now to find out more.

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