Programme Manager

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Function: IT
Contract: Full Time - Fixed term contract (Ideally looking for a candidate with immediate availability)
Location: Pyms Lane, Crewe, CW1 3PL with flexible hybrid working

Bentley Motors is combining a world of luxury and progressive technology to embrace an electrified future. Join us as we embark on the most transformative phase in Bentley's history.

Purpose of the Role
Join the IT department as the Connected Car Programme Manager during an exciting time at Bentley, playing a pivotal role in driving Bentley's goals towards our Beyond100 strategy.

Reporting into the Tribe Lead, you will coordinate the Connected Car and Data Value programme on behalf of IT, ensuring the successfully delivery at Bentley. You will work closely with business stakeholders and the IT Teams to achieve the desired business outcomes, with strong monitoring and control in place, steering the programme according to the established delivery and governance frameworks. Also working closely and collaboratively with the wider business up to Board level to facilitate effective change management, conflict resolution and delivery.

• Responsible for establishing the overall programme structure at Bentley, governance, roles and responsibilities and ensuring that work stream owners are held to account on delivery

• Work with existing IT Project Managers to enhance stakeholder engagement and create a stakeholder management plan which identifies and engages the relevant internal and external parties
• Ensure definition of programme scope, goals and deliverables and that the resulting projects and work streams are aligned and agreed with sponsors and stakeholders
• Identify internal and external programme dependencies and prepare inclusive work breakdown structure (WBS).
• Lead active risk and issues management, ensuring that risks and issues are owned, actioned and escalated as required
• Ensure business readiness and change management is defined, planned, agreed and activated
• Ensure that the stakeholder engagement plan is implemented and executed, building relationship with stakeholders and programme team members

About the Team
The IT Delivery function are responsible for delivering a diverse portfolio of IT change to enable our stakeholders to meet their strategic goals as part of the Beyond 100 Strategy.

About you - Skills and Experience

• Significant Experience leading large strategic programmes from start to finish
• Experience of managing significant business change
• Significant experience of successfully delivering enterprise wide Programmes, driving strategic results, applied in a work environment
• Experience of working with ambiguous deliverables and being able to break these into delivery tranches
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence and manage across functional boundaries, to deliver complex change projects and resolve conflicts
• Advanced range of core project management techniques and methods including: WBS (Work Breakdown Structure), CPM (Critical Path Method), Gantt chart creation, PERT, Risk and issue management, stakeholder analysis, SWOT analysis and cost/benefit analysis

What Bentley Offers

• Flexible working hours
• Hybrid working options
• 35 days annual leave inclusive of UK bank holidays
• Progression pathways and programmes, mentoring, and study support opportunities available
• Optional car lease scheme with discounted access to brand new VW Group cars (VW, Seat, Skoda, Audi) up to every six months
• Health and life assurance benefits providing up to five times annual salary
• Annual salary reviews and competitive bonus scheme
• Contributory pension scheme - you put in 6% we put in 10%
• Access to a wide range of resources to support your health and well-being including an online GP, the choice to join BUPA health plans, a mental health counsellor, and onsite physio
• Paid volunteering days dedicated to community giving

The Bentley Campus
Our campus is going through an exciting transformation offering unrivalled facilities including green spaces, free parking, an onsite restaurant, coffee shops and Legends gym.

#BelongingAtBentley
Motivated to be the most diverse, inclusive luxury car company, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all individuals are respected, valued, and empowered.

We firmly believe in equal opportunities for all, helping all colleagues thrive as their authentic selves and reach their highest potential. We believe that everyone, regardless of their background or beliefs, belongs at Bentley. Everyone is entitled to respect and dignity and we positively celebrate the differences between people.

Beyond100
Announced in 2020, Bentley's ground-breaking Beyond100 strategy targets sustainable luxury mobility leadership, reinventing every aspect of the business. Building on over two decades of forward-thinking, join us as Bentley moves towards a sustainable future.

Closing date: 26th September 2024