Programme Manager 12 Month FTC

Description

IG Group is a FTSE 100 fintech operating across five continents, serving over 1.4m customers and handling billions of dollars in transactions – built on scale, trust, and proof. We didn't pivot to innovation; it's how we've always operated. What that means for the people who work here is real: genuinely complex problems to solve, the technology and resources to tackle them properly, and the kind of scope that's rare in established businesses.

The perks

• Competitive salary

• Flexible Benefits Package on top of your salary (12%)

• Private medical cover for you and your family

• Life insurance

• Contribution to gym memberships

• 25 Days holiday, with 1 additional day off to celebrate your Birthday & 2 additional days off a year for voluntary work (28 in total)

• The option to buy or sell holiday days

• Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning Platform

• A comprehensive global and local onboarding process

• Employee-led LGBTQ+, Women’s, Black and Parents & Carers networks with an annual budget for organising events & projects that foster an open, diverse and inclusive culture

• Option to participate and create ESG initiatives based on IG Brighter Future Fund

• Enhanced primary (maternity), secondary (paternity), and shared parental pay and leave, as well as a range of support and benefits for parents

• Study package to support completion of the CGI qualification (if part qualified).

What you’ll do

• Orchestrate the transformation programme across workstreams: sequencing activity, tracking progress and surfacing issues for resolution, providing hands-on planning support to individual workstreams where required.

• Own the programme's governance controls on behalf of the Transformation Director; steering group cadence, decision logs, RAID logs and reporting standards - consistent and lightweight, not bureaucratic.

• Maintain the integrated view of milestones, dependencies, risks and expected benefits across initiatives, surfacing overlaps and sequencing conflicts before they become problems.

• Prepare concise, decision-oriented reporting for the Transformation Director, Steering Group and ExCo, translating complex programme activity into clear, honest narratives.

• Manage communication and relationships with initiative owners and workstream leads, coordinating cross-project activity and managing interfaces between projects.

• Support Finance and budget owners to track transformation expenditure, forecast benefits and validate realised savings.

• Constructively challenge initiative owners where plans, forecasts or reported status are not sufficiently robust.

• Provide hands-on support to initiatives at risk, while keeping delivery accountability with initiative owners.

• Support the delivery of change management activity across workstreams, owning the tracking and reporting of adoption and behavioural change.

• Coordinate other project managers and workstream support resources as the PMO scales.

What you’ll need for this role

• Experience managing large, complex, multi-workstream programmes, ideally spanning technology, operating model and organisational change.

• Comfortable operating in both Agile and traditional delivery environments, adapting governance to the workstream rather than applying one method rigidly.

• Proven track record delivering programmes to specification, on time and within budget, with credible evidence of benefits realisation.

• Certified Project/Programme Manager (PRINCE2, APM, MSP or equivalent).

• Experience in technology transformation, risk and governance within a regulated or fast-paced global organisation and is comfortable with ambiguity.

• Able to influence, advise and hold accountable senior and C-level stakeholders without eroding their ownership of delivery.

• Strong analytical capability across budgets, forecasts, savings and business cases.

• A clear, confident communicator, verbally and in writing, able to establish credibility quickly across a broad range of stakeholders.

• Highly organised and hands-on, with a bias towards decisions and outcomes over process and administration.