Change Programme Assurance Manager
| Posting date: | 28 March 2026 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 April 2026 |
| Location: | Edinburgh, EH12 1HQ |
| Company: | NatWest Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | R-00272211 |
Summary
Join us as a Change Programme Assurance Manager
- In this influential role, you’ll work with the teams delivering the most important programmes of change within the bank to ensure their successful delivery
- You’ll challenge and support senior programme leaders – gaining their confidence and contributing to the successful delivery of the programme, its outcomes and its benefits
- This is an opportunity to build excellent relationships with senior leadership across the bank, giving you and your work great exposure
What you'll do
As a Change Programme Assurance Manager, you use your expertise and judgement to make sure that programmes are set up for success – while also determining the best remedies to recover programmes under issue or challenge. You’ll build strong working relationships with colleagues – always able to challenge them on their programme status while helping to bring out the required behaviours and techniques for success.
You’ll also be:
- Identifying issues and potential future risks that require escalation to senior leaders in a timely manner
- Using your prior change delivery experience to help develop remediation plans to existing programme issues, while also mitigating and controlling any delivery risks
- Using leadership tools and techniques to assure programmes and apply key learnings to other programmes within the bank portfolio
- Building relationships with first, second and third line of defence colleagues to actively drive engagement
The skills you'll need
You’ll need a high-level skillset and experience of programme management. We’re looking for someone with a background as a programme assurance practitioner or change programme peer reviewer. We’ll also expect you to have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to influence senior colleagues.
Additionally, you’ll need:
- A broad understanding of business management and programme management practices, processes, tools and techniques
- The ability to engage with and challenge programme teams using data rather than opinion, influencing decisions at a senior level where appropriate
- A background of analysing, interpreting and distilling complex information and making decisions on what actions to take
- The ability to undertake assurance activity across several programmes concurrently
- Experience of bank-wide investment processes, with detailed knowledge of the tools and techniques used to manage delivery and benefits management