Programme Manager - Enterprise Systems (Oracle Cloud)

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

As an organisation, there is little we don’t do and plenty to get involved in. Our Group Support roles are vital in making sure we can help over 11,000 people deliver essential infrastructure seamlessly across water, energy, transport and telecom.

Want to come and be a part of it?

What will you be doing?

You’ll lead the successful delivery of a portfolio of strategic programmes and projects, ensuring outcomes align with business priorities and deliver measurable value. Managing a team of Programme and Project Managers, you’ll create a high-performance culture focused on accountability, collaboration, and delivery excellence.

You’ll oversee the full project lifecycle, from planning and mobilisation through to execution and benefits realisation, ensuring effective management of scope, schedule, cost, quality, risks, and dependencies. Working closely with senior stakeholders, you’ll act as the key escalation point for delivery challenges, providing clear reporting, influencing decisions, and driving alignment across business and technology teams.

You’ll be responsible for optimising delivery approaches, balancing resource demand and capacity, and ensuring programmes are positioned for long-term success. Alongside this, you’ll champion continuous improvement, embedding best practices, developing delivery capability, and fostering a strong delivery community that consistently delivers high-quality outcomes at pace.

What you'll bring

• Significant experience delivering complex Oracle Cloud and ERP transformation programmes, leading multiple projects and workstreams simultaneously.
• Proven track record of managing large-scale portfolios of projects and programmes, ensuring successful delivery, governance, and business outcomes.
• Strong leadership experience managing and developing Project Managers, Programme Managers, and cross-functional delivery teams.
• Expertise in programme governance, risk management, assurance, reporting, and delivery controls across complex environments.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver business and operational transformation initiatives that support strategic objectives.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence and challenge senior business and technology leaders.
• Experience managing dependencies, risks, resource constraints, and competing priorities across a portfolio of change activity.
• Deep understanding of project and programme delivery methodologies, including Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid approaches.
• Proven ability to drive delivery performance, resolve issues, and implement corrective actions to achieve successful outcomes.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and relationship-building skills with a focus on collaboration and results.
• Commercially aware, with an understanding of budget management, forecasting, and value realisation.
• Relevant qualifications or certifications such as APM, PMP, PRINCE2, MSP, AgilePM, or SAFe are desirable.
• A strategic, outcome-focused leader with strong decision-making, prioritisation, and continuous improvement capabilities.

What’s in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme

In addition, this role offers;

• Company car (or allowance) and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
• Company van/vehicle and fuel card for business use
• Private health care and health care cash plan for you (and your family)
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!

About us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3 rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.

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