Tech Project & Programme Management - Programme Manager
| Posting date: | 05 December 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 December 2025 |
| Location: | Uxbridge, London, UB7 0GB |
| Company: | Hays Specialist Recruitment |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 4750760_1764946257 |
Summary
We are hiring a Senior Delivery Project & Programme Manager to establish and champion delivery discipline across our client's AI Factory. This is a senior role for someone who brings structure, transparency and control to large transformation portfolios and knows how to keep complex organisations aligned and on track.This role works closely with the Multi-Tech Agents Engineering Manager, the Senior Product Manager for Enterprise Agents, Delivery Leads and the Group Head.
Contract duration - 6 months (possiblity to extend further)
Location - Waterside (UB7 0GB)
Hybrid - 2-3 days onsite
Pay - Flexible daily rate (inside IR35)
Purpose of the Role
The Senior Delivery Project & Programme Manager owns delivery governance across the AI Agents portfolio. You will define and enforce standards, drive high-quality reporting, manage risk and non-conformities, and provide the single source of truth on progress and value delivery. Your work ensures consistency, predictability and accountability across engineering teams building mission-critical agentic AI products.
Key Responsibilities
Delivery Tracking & Portfolio Visibility
- Maintain a clear portfolio-level view of progress across all squads, integrating delivery data into structured reporting and dashboards.
- Track sprint performance, commitments, dependencies and milestones, ensuring teams operate with transparency and discipline.
- Identify bottlenecks early and coordinate corrective action across engineering, product and partner teams.
Stakeholder Communication & Leadership Reporting
- Produce concise, executive-ready reporting for senior leadership, including weekly progress packs, risk summaries and value-realisation updates.
- Ensure delivery stories are communicated consistently across OpCos, programme teams and central functions.
- Build cross-functional trust through clear, structured and timely communication.
Standards, Governance & Quality Control
- Define, maintain and enforce delivery standards across documentation, Stage Gates, change control and production readiness.
- Ensure compliance with governance frameworks, including risk management processes, quality gates and audit requirements.
- Validate that each AI Agent product meets exit criteria before advancing to the next phase.
Risk, Issue & Audit Management
- Own the consolidated risk and issue registers, ensuring all items have clear ownership, action plans and timelines.
- Run structured risk review cycles and escalate critical items to leadership with clear recommendations.
- Ensure audit findings, noncompliance and remediation actions are tracked to closure with clear accountability.
Cross-Team Alignment
- Drive alignment across engineering, product, cyber, cloud and OpCo teams, ensuring everyone is operating to the same plan and cadence.
- Support delivery leads in applying best-practice methods consistently across squads.
- Maintain harmonised processes and shared delivery standards across the entire AI Factory.
Continuous Improvement
- Identify opportunities to improve delivery methods, tooling, reporting and governance.
- Establish feedback loops with teams to refine playbooks, standards and operating rhythms.
- Lead structured process improvements that enhance predictability, velocity and quality.
Training & Capability Building
- Provide ongoing coaching and training to deliver leads on tooling, standards and governance.
- Embed structured work methods, analytical decision-making and transparency into day-to-day operations.
- Develop templates, frameworks and repeatable delivery patterns for the AI Factory.
Qualifications & Experience
- Experience in PMO, programme management or delivery leadership roles within technology or transformation environments.
- Demonstrated ability to run structured governance, reporting and decision processes at scale.
- Proven track record delivering complex IT or transformation programmes with high stakeholder complexity.
- Expertise in Agile delivery frameworks (Scrum, SAFe), sprint management and tooling such as Jira and Confluence.
- Experience coordinating multi-team or global organisations, managing dependencies and driving alignment.
- Strong analytical and reporting skills, able to distil complex delivery data into clear insights.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills, comfortable engaging senior stakeholders.
- A proactive, structured and detail-oriented mindset with a focus on value, transparency and accountability.
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