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Senior PMO Lead / Programme Management Office Manager \n Location: Sheffield, United Kingdom \n Employment Type: Full Time \n Domain Preference: Banking & Financial Services \n \n Role Overview \n seeking a highly experienced and mature PMO Lead to support strategic transformation initiatives across business and technology portfolios. The successful candidate will serve as the trusted governance partner to Programme Directors, Delivery Leads, Business Sponsors, and Executive Stakeholders, ensuring effective planning, financial management, risk governance, regulatory compliance, and delivery assurance. \n The role requires a seasoned professional with strong executive presence, exceptional stakeholder management skills, and the ability to drive governance in a complex, highly regulated environment. \n \n Key Responsibilities \n Portfolio & Programme Governance \n\n • Establish and maintain programme governance frameworks aligned with HSBC standards.\n, • Drive governance forums, Steering Committees, Executive Reviews, and Portfolio Boards.\n, • Ensure adherence to programme delivery methodologies, controls, and quality standards.\n, • Provide independent challenge and assurance to programme teams regarding scope, milestones, risks, dependencies, and financials.\n, • Produce executive-level dashboards and reports for senior management.\n\n \n Planning & Delivery Oversight \n\n • Maintain integrated programme plans across multiple workstreams.\n, • Track milestones, critical dependencies, programme health, and delivery commitments.\n, • Identify delivery risks and proactively drive mitigation actions.\n, • Monitor programme performance against agreed KPIs and success measures.\n, • Support recovery planning for programmes experiencing schedule or delivery challenges.\n\n \n Financial Management \n\n • Manage programme budgets, forecasts, actuals, accruals, and benefits tracking.\n, • Ensure financial governance aligns with HSBC investment management processes.\n, • Monitor budget utilisation and highlight financial risks and variances.\n, • Support business case development and funding approvals.\n\n \n Risk, Issue & Dependency Management \n\n • Own and facilitate RAID governance.\n, • Drive timely escalation and resolution of critical issues.\n, • Ensure inter-programme and cross-functional dependencies are actively managed.\n, • Maintain transparency and robust reporting on programme health.\n\n \n Regulatory & Compliance Governance \n\n • Ensure programme activities comply with HSBC internal policies and regulatory obligations.\n, • Support audit reviews and regulatory inspections.\n, • Track closure of audit actions and compliance commitments.\n, • Monitor control effectiveness and governance adherence.\n\n \n Executive Reporting & Communications \n\n • Create concise and insightful executive reporting packs.\n, • Prepare materials for senior leadership forums and SteerCos.\n, • Communicate programme status, risks, achievements, and decisions clearly to stakeholders.\n, • Facilitate decision-making through accurate and timely management information.\n\n \n Resource & Capacity Management \n\n • Support workforce planning and resource forecasting.\n, • Monitor resource utilisation across programmes.\n, • Identify capacity constraints and recommend optimisation strategies.\n, • Coordinate onboarding and mobilisation activities when required.\n\n \n Continuous Improvement \n\n • Drive PMO maturity and governance best practices.\n, • Standardise reporting, planning, budgeting, and programme controls.\n, • Promote automation and efficiency improvements across PMO processes.\n, • Mentor junior PMO analysts and coordinators.\n\n \n Required Experience \n\n • Deep experience in PMO, Programme Management, Portfolio Governance, or Delivery Assurance.\n, • Extensive experience within Banking and Financial Services organisations.\n, • Proven experience supporting large-scale technology, regulatory, infrastructure, or transformation programmes.\n, • Strong knowledge of governance frameworks, programme controls, budgeting, and portfolio management.\n, • Experience working directly with senior executives and C-suite stakeholders.\n, • Demonstrated success managing complex stakeholder environments.\n\n

Data Programme Manager | Tier-1 Financial Services | Enterprise Cloud & Platforms | Regional Hub (Hybrid) \n \n 💷 £150,000 - 200,000 per annum, pro rata \n 🏠 South Yorkshire, Hybrid (3 days per week on-site). \n 👥 Directing cross-functional delivery pods (30+ headcount). \n 🏢 Management Consultancy / Financial Services. \n 👨 💻 Enterprise Data Platforms, Cloud (GCP), Data Fabric/Mesh, APIs. \n \n Are you an experienced Programme Manager with a background in directing large-scale data and cloud modernisations within complex financial institutions? \n \n Have you managed multi-million-pound budgets while leading multi-disciplinary delivery teams across global locations? \n \n Are you looking for a fixed-term contract role taking ownership of a critical enterprise data platform rollout? \n \n We are partnering with an established management consultancy to source a Data Programme Manager for a fixed-term contract. Embedded within a major regional delivery hub, you will oversee large-scale data initiatives designed to upgrade core infrastructure across legacy and modern systems. \n \n As the successful candidate: \n \n\n • You will take end-to-end ownership of high-value data transformation streams, guiding multidisciplinary units across software engineering, architecture, analytics, and business change.\n, • You will oversee the deployment of modern data architectures, including cloud integrations, data fabric concepts, and API frameworks.\n, • You will manage key executive governance groups, aligning business leaders and technical teams around strategic milestones.\n, • You will maintain strict commercial control over multi-million-pound budgets, capacity planning, and external delivery partners.\n, • You will ensure all project outputs comply with strict data governance, lineage, quality controls, and regulatory standards.\n\n \n The ideal candidate: \n \n\n • Extensive track record of leading large-scale enterprise data, cloud, or analytics programmes (£5m+ budgets) within corporate or investment banking – required\n, • Proven ability to direct large, multi-disciplinary change teams across onshore and offshore delivery models – required\n, • Exceptional executive stakeholder management and communication skills – required\n, • Fully committed to working 3 days per week on-site in South Yorkshire – required\n, • Experience combining management consultancy leadership with embedded delivery inside tier-1 financial institutions – highly advantageous\n, • Practical understanding of cloud platforms (such as GCP), data virtualisation, and business intelligence solutions – highly advantageous\n\n \n This vacancy is being managed by a third-party recruitment agency. By applying, you agree to your application being processed for this role. We endeavour to respond to all candidates, but high application volumes may prevent individual feedback.