Programme Manager (Big Ticket & Finance)

Location: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom. Other locations: York; Atlanta.

Company

hirify.global is an international specialist insurer focused on selected areas of expertise and challenging conventional approaches.

What you will do

• Partner with sponsors and workstream leads across an assigned transformation cluster, understanding objectives, outcomes, plans and challenges.
• Assess scope, milestones, resources, risks and dependencies, providing evidence-based delivery assurance and early identification of issues.
• Manage cluster dependencies and capacity, agree owners and dates for hand-offs, and resolve cross-cluster resource conflicts.
• Lead targeted recovery or acceleration interventions when delivery confidence falls, coordinating blockers, tracking recovery measures and exiting once delivery stabilizes.
• Prepare concise updates covering progress, risks, dependencies, options and decisions, and provide delivery evidence and forecasts for enterprise reporting and value tracking.
• Check readiness, adoption and transition plans while keeping focus on customer, colleague, control, operational and financial outcomes.

Requirements

• Strong experience leading, assuring or recovering large and complex programmes.
• Ability to assess whether plans are realistic and identify the underlying causes of delivery risk.
• Confidence working with senior sponsors and workstream leads, including providing clear and respectful challenge.
• Strong planning, dependency management and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to turn complex information into simple choices, recommendations and actions.
• Good understanding of business cases, financial control, benefits, readiness and adoption.
• Comfort working across programme, project, product, agile and hybrid delivery approaches.
• Collaborative, practical and calm under pressure, with strong ownership and follow-through.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent, full-time role within the Group Transformation Office.
• Hybrid working is set by the team to support work-life balance, combining office structure and sociability with independence and flexibility.
• Inclusive culture focused on diversity, creativity, constructive challenge and finding better solutions.
• Work with an international specialist insurer committed to customer care, reliability and doing the right thing.