Programme Manager (Global Functions & Shared Services)

Location: Hybrid, based in London, York, Lisbon, or Atlanta

Company

hirify.global is an international specialist insurer focused on selective areas of expertise, challenging convention, and delivering distinctive insurance solutions.

What you will do

• Partner with sponsors and workstream leads across an assigned transformation cluster, providing constructive challenge, practical support, and access to Finance, Technology, People, Risk, Procurement, and other functions.
• Assess scope, milestones, resources, risks, dependencies, and delivery confidence, escalating issues with evidence, options, and recommendations.
• Maintain dependency and capacity views, coordinate cross-cluster hand-offs, and resolve shared-resource conflicts with other Programme Managers and planning colleagues.
• Lead targeted recovery or acceleration interventions, bringing together stakeholders, tracking recovery measures, and restoring delivery stability.
• Prepare concise updates focused on progress, risks, decisions, and actions, and provide evidence and forecasts for enterprise reporting and value tracking.
• Check readiness, adoption, transition to business as usual, and achievement of 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

• Hybrid working supports work-life balance, combining office structure and sociability with independence and flexibility.
• An inclusive culture encourages diversity, creativity, constructive challenge, and continuous improvement.
• Employees are encouraged to look for better ways of working and to support customers and colleagues.