Programme Manager (Technology, Data & AI)

Location: Hybrid; London, Lisbon or York, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global is an international specialist insurer focused on selected areas of expertise and supported by a culture of challenging convention and improving how things are done.

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 escalating issues with clear actions.
• Maintain dependency and capacity views, coordinate cross-cluster hand-offs and resolve shared resource conflicts.
• Lead targeted recovery or acceleration interventions when delivery confidence falls, tracking measures until delivery stabilizes.
• Prepare concise updates covering progress, risks, dependencies, options and decisions, and provide evidence 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 root 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 employment with hybrid working.
• Hybrid arrangements are set by the team to support work-life balance, structure, sociability, independence and flexibility.
• Inclusive culture focused on diversity, creative thinking, challenging the status quo and finding practical solutions.
• Programme Managers operate with clear boundaries: workstream leads own day-to-day delivery, while Programme Managers own cluster-level assurance, dependencies, capacity oversight and targeted intervention.