Senior Program Manager

Role: Senior Program Manager
Start: Immediate
Sector: TV Entertainment (Content sourcing/launch)
Daily rate: £585 to £652 per day + Holiday pay (PAYE-Inside IR35)
Location: Central London – Hybrid working with 3 days in the office and 2 days from home
Expected duration: 6 months (May extend)

Our client is a leading global technology business. We are seeking an analytical Senior Program Manager, with strong written and verbal communication skills, to support the growth of their media entertainment business across Europe.
You will be accountable for translating strategy into action to drive internal business performance and ensure all teams are aligned and working towards the long-term business and service-level objectives. You will work backwards from the set goals to create actionable milestones, drive all teams towards that mission through the management of key business mechanisms (for e.g Quarterly Business Reviews), and lead critical strategic initiatives that don’t fall into any one-team’s remit.
The ideal candidate will thrive in a quickly evolving industry landscape and will be able to work cross-functionally to take big ideas and implement realistic roadmaps to deliver results. You will be expected to clearly communicate goals, roles and responsibilities, and desired outcomes to both internal senior leadership and cross-functional teams.
As a Senior Program Manager, you will anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, and ensure teams are on track against deliverables and goals. You must be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment, and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. In this role, you will have the opportunity to execute programs and grow professionally alongside your colleagues as well as to help influence business strategy, make autonomous decisions, and own programs/projects.

Key job responsibilities

• Business partner with finance on setting our service and financial KPIs.
• Work with Cross Functional teams to ensure key roadmaps and activities are aligned to these short- and long-term business objectives.
• Manage regular business reviews to track progress and present to senior management.
• Lead strategic initiatives that span across all teams or don’t fit into any one team’s remit.
• Secure leadership and wider team buy-in with internal and external stakeholders for these strategic initiatives.
• Manage a cross-functional process to translate the desired outcome into specific tasks and owners.
• Track progress, setting up critical project reviews (CPRs) as needed, and manage through obstacles to deliver program objectives.
• Support sharing of knowledge across business, putting in place additional mechanisms, as necessary, to aid circulation of key learnings and changes across various countries and functions.
• Support the development and writing of strategic proposal documents from country level content/programming and functional teams, ensuring that they account for and feed into wider business context.

Requirements

• Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
• Experience in program or project management
• Experience using data and metrics to drive improvements
• Experience in complex problem solving, and working in a tight schedule environment

Preferred qualifications

• Experience leading process improvements
• Experience working cross functionally with non-tech teams
• Experience writing crisp, clearly articulated and logically supported recommendations to senior management with minimal supervision
• Experience operating with high level of independence.
• Demonstrated ability to engage and influence senior level executives
• Proven ability to absorb, assess and retain large volumes of information