Senior Programme Manager – Value Creation Plan (VCP)

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 20 April 2026
LOCATION
London
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
CATEGORY
Management
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SKILLS

Programme Management Delivery Discipline Governance Planning Risk Management Stakeholder Engagement Commercial Acumen Influencing Skills

FULL DESCRIPTION

The Senior Programme Manager – VCP is a critical delivery and enablement leader responsible for driving execution rigour, pace, and value realisation across [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk]’s Value Creation Plan. Acting as a programme-level leader across multiple priority initiatives, the role brings structure, challenge, and best practice to complex delivery environments, while partnering closely with embedded Project Managers and senior initiative owners.

Key Responsibilities

  • VCP Programme Delivery: Act as programme-level delivery lead across assigned VCP initiatives, partnering with initiative sponsors and assigned project managers to shape delivery plans, milestones, and outcomes aligned to value creation objectives
  • Project Planning & Oversight: Provide oversight of delivery plans across initiatives, ensuring scope, dependencies, risks, and critical paths are understood and actively managed at a portfolio level
  • Workstream Enablement & Intervention: Provide content-focused workstream support to unblock delivery challenges and accelerate progress where required
  • PM Capability Uplift & Standards Enablement: Lead PM enablement and capability uplift, working collaboratively with the [Employer hidden] global portfolio lead to embed consistent delivery discipline, governance, and [Employer hidden] PMO standards across VCP initiatives. Also identifying opportunities to continue to elevate standards across the organisation
  • Embedded PM Partnership: Act as a trusted delivery partner to embedded Project Managers and workstream leads, providing coaching, challenge, and hands-on support without duplicating delivery ownership.
  • Governance & Reporting: Represent the central PfMO across VCP governance and SteerCos, providing decision-ready insight on delivery confidence, trade-offs, and implications for value realization. Ensure clear, concise and accurate reporting from priority VCP initiatives, aligned to [Employer hidden] PfMO standards, through key portfolio governance fora
  • Risk, Dependency & Value Leakage Management:Identify and manage delivery risks, cross-initiative dependencies, and value leakage across the VCP portfolio, coordinating mitigation actions as required
  • Delivery & Benefits Assurance: In partnership with Financial Controller, provide delivery and benefits assurance, intervening early where plans lack robustness, momentum weakens, or outcomes drift from intent
  • Benefits Definition & Tracking:In partnership with initiative teams and the Finance Enablement Lead, define, baseline, and track initiative-level benefits, including leading and lagging indicators, ensuring consistency and portfolio-level oversight.
  • Commercial & Financial Collaboration: Work closely with the Financial Controller on business cases, benefits profiling, and timeline stress-testing during project mobilisation and at critical milestones.

Required Skills & Experience

  • Senior Programme Management: Proven experience delivering complex, multi-workstream programmes within a PE-backed Transformation or Value Creation environment.
  • Delivery Discipline & Governance: Strong capability in embedding consistent delivery standards, governance frameworks, and ways of working across enterprise portfolios.
  • Planning, Risk & Dependency Management: Demonstrated expertise in integrated planning, risk identification, mitigation planning, and management of cross-initiative dependencies.
  • Senior Stakeholder Engagement: Confident communicator with experience engaging Executive Sponsors and presenting clear, outcome-focused updates at SteerCos and governance forums.
  • Commercial & Financial Acumen: Strong understanding of business drivers and operation, business cases, benefits realisation, cost of change, and financial impacts on programme delivery.
  • Strong Influencing Skills: Able to influence changes within project governance or delivery structures through influence and dialogue rather than direct control

Qualifications / Relevant Experience

  • Relevant qualification in Programme or Project Management (e.g. MSP, PRINCE2, PMP) or equivalent senior-level experience delivering large-scale programmes within a Central PfMO or transformation environment.
  • Industry and/or Content experience across some or all of: Pharma / Lifesciences / Healthcare or Medical; Global Professional Services; AI-enablement; Global business expansion; Operating model transformation

Why Join [Employer hidden]?

  • Opportunity to shape and deliver [Employer hidden]’s Value Creation Plan
  • High visibility role with Executive leadership
  • Collaborative, purpose-driven global organisation
  • Hybrid working model
  • Competitive reward and benefits package
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