Programme Manager- London, Birmingham or Sheffield

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Programme Manager- London, Birmingham or Sheffield

About The Role

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Programme Manager to work for our client within the Banking sector. This is initially a 6 month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role that can be based in either London, Birmingham or Sheffield.

The client is delivering the 5 Priorities Programme a two-year, modular programme across five priorities, comprising 25 deliverables with baselined OKR's. The programme is incredibly ambitious, aiming to redesign our processes, tooling, and data to reimagine audit as an end-to-end joined up service. Two Project Managers will support the Head of Transformation by providing hands-on programme delivery leadership to run the integrated delivery plan and drive execution. The roles strengthen orchestration across dependencies, maintain delivery discipline, and reduce slippage/rework caused by local contention and unmanaged handoffs.

Responsibilities:

Run the integrated delivery plan day-to-day: maintain the plan, drive updates, track milestones/critical path, and ensure actions are executed by accountable owners.
Operate the fortnightly portfolio sync with Sponsors and supporting cadence (actions, follow-ups, decision capture), ensuring blockers are surfaced early and driven to closure.
Maintain and drive the single live dependency log across deliverables, with clear owners, dates, impacts, and escalation routes.
Manage portfolio-level RAID and decision tracking; ensure mitigations are in place and decisions are translated into delivery actions.
Track and report progress against OKRs/value, producing concise, decision-ready governance packs.
Identify and manage task concentration and local contention and propose re-sequencing and trade-offs for governance decisions.
Coordinate and lock in critical specialist inputs, including key teams such as Methodology or Digital, to prevent bottlenecks.
Support change landing into BAU by coordinating cross-cutting readiness (change calendar, cutover/hypercare touchpoints, adoption risks), working with Sponsors/BAU owners.

About You

Strong programme/project management in complex, interdependent change.
Ability to drive execution in an SME-led, matrix environment (influence without formal authority).
Strong risk/issue/decision management and ability to unblock at pace.
Clear, concise senior stakeholder communication and reporting.
Practical understanding of change absorption into BAU and how to manage concurrency.
Proven dependency management and governance cadence discipline.

Success Measures

Integrated plan, RAID, and dependency log operating as a single source of truth with no late surprises.
Fortnightly cadence running cleanly with faster decision closure and clearer ownership.
Contention hotspots and H2 change-load risks visible early with agreed mitigations/trade-offs.
OKR reporting consistent and governance packs are decision-ready.

About Us

FDM is an award-winning global leader in tech and business talent solutions, backed by more than 35 years of industry experience. We have centres across Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 2500 employees. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer, currently listed on the FTSE4Good Index and as a 2026 Financial Times UK ‘Best Employer’.

Diversity and Inclusion

FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.

Why join us

Career coaching, mentoring and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career
Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad
Opportunity to re-skill and up-skill into new areas, develop non-linear career paths and build a skillset within your field
Annual leave and work-place pension

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