Lead Program Manager - Platform
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Overview
We're Kingfisher, A team made up of over 78,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas - to life. That's right, we're big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that's where you come in.
At Kingfisher our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.
We are open to flexible and agile working, both of hours and location. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our offices, located in London, Southampton & Yeovil. Talk to us about how we can best support you!
In this role you will provide strategic leadership & oversight across large-scale platform programs, driving successful delivery, optimizing resource management, and promoting continuous improvement, while fostering a high-performing and cohesive program management community.
What's the job?
Line Management: Line manage program/project managers across the platform team providing leadership, guidance, mentoring and performance management to ensure effective delivery.
Chapter Leadership: Champion chapter activities related to quality improvement, skill development, and fostering a sense of belonging across the program and project management community. Support teams to define, implement and continually improve project standards including project documentations, processes, ways of working, tooling and planning.
Strategic Delivery Planning & Reporting: Create and maintain the delivery pipeline for large-scale programs, providing strategic oversight and resourcing plans to ensure alignment with business priorities. Prepare consolidated material from project reports for monthly review.
Governance & Standards Oversight: Ensure adherence to program governance standards, supporting program managers in preparing for Governance Boards.
Financial Oversight: Collaborate with the finance team to undertake financial modelling and cost tracking at the platform level, ensuring clear visibility into budget allocations and financial health.
Risk & Dependency Management: Track and report on key risks, issues, and dependencies across platform programs, providing regular updates to governance bodies and leadership teams.
Delivery leadership: Creation and maintenance of programme milestone plan, with inputs from all domain and platform teams, collaborate with the team to maximise delivery of value to Customers, responsible for managing the achievement of overall programme objective, Estimating, allocating and controlling programme costs against agreed budgets, measuring value realised.
What you'll bring
Line Management: Line manage program/project managers across the platform team providing leadership, guidance, mentoring and performance management to ensure effective delivery.
Chapter Leadership: Champion chapter activities related to quality improvement, skill development, and fostering a sense of belonging across the program and project management community. Support teams to define, implement and continually improve project standards including project documentations, processes, ways of working, tooling and planning.
Strategic Delivery Planning & Reporting: Create and maintain the delivery pipeline for large-scale programs, providing strategic oversight and resourcing plans to ensure alignment with business priorities. Prepare consolidated material from project reports for monthly review.
Governance & Standards Oversight: Ensure adherence to program governance standards, supporting program managers in preparing for Governance Boards.
Financial Oversight: Collaborate with the finance team to undertake financial modelling and cost tracking at the platform level, ensuring clear visibility into budget allocations and financial health.
Risk & Dependency Management: Track and report on key risks, issues, and dependencies across platform programs, providing regular updates to governance bodies and leadership teams.
Delivery leadership: Creation and maintenance of programme milestone plan, with inputs from all domain and platform teams, collaborate with the team to maximise delivery of value to Customers, responsible for managing the achievement of overall programme objective, Estimating, allocating and controlling programme costs against agreed budgets, measuring value realised.