Are you a strategic leader with a proven track record of delivering complex initiatives on time and within scope? We are seeking a Programme Manager to oversee the successful planning, coordination, and execution of cross-functional projects that drive business transformation and operational excellence. In this role, you will align stakeholders, manage risks, optimize resources, and ensure programmes deliver measurable value while supporting organizational goals and long-term strategy.
The Programme Manager exists to lead the coordinated delivery of complex, multi-project initiatives that span Business Units, Shared Services, and territories. While individual projects may be well managed in isolation, Guardian requires strong programme-level leadership to manage interdependencies, sequencing, risk aggregation, and benefits realisation across related initiatives.
This role ensures that strategic programmes are delivered as cohesive wholes rather than disconnected projects. It provides structure, integration, and senior-level coordination, translating strategic intent into an executable roadmap while actively managing trade-offs, risks, and stakeholder expectations.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Programme Planning & Integration
• Develop and maintain integrated programme plans, roadmaps, and dependency maps.
• Translate strategic objectives into sequenced project plans aligned to delivery capacity and priorities.
• Ensure programme scope, milestones, risks, and assumptions are clearly defined and managed.
• Develop and maintain the integrated programme budget, consolidating project-level budgets, phasing, and funding requirements in alignment with approved business cases.
2. Delivery Oversight & Governance
• Oversee multiple related projects, ensuring alignment to programme objectives and timelines.
• Provide direction and coordination to Project Managers assigned to the programme (hybrid reporting).
• Identify cross-project risks, conflicts, and interdependencies, escalating issues proactively.
• Monitor programme-level financial performance, including consolidated forecasts, inter-project cost impacts, and cumulative variance against approved funding.
• Identify financial risks arising from scope changes, sequencing decisions, or dependency impacts, escalating early with recommended mitigation actions.
• Ensure alignment between delivery plans, funding approvals, and procurement activity across all projects within the programme.
3. Stakeholder & Executive Engagement
• Act as the primary point of coordination for BU leaders and Shared Services stakeholders within the programme.
• Prepare consolidated programme updates, dashboards, and decision papers for governance forums.
• Support Steering Committees with clear insights on progress, risks, and required decisions.
4. Benefits Realisation & Performance Tracking
• Partner with Finance and Business Owners to track realised vs planned benefits, ensuring financial outcomes remain aligned to programme objectives.
• Monitor progress against agreed KPIs, ensuring corrective actions are implemented where required.
• Support post-implementation reviews and lessons learned.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Management, Engineering, or related discipline
• Project or Programme Management certification (PMP, PgMP, Prince2)
• 6–8 years’ experience managing complex initiatives or programmes
• Experience coordinating multiple project teams in matrix environments
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENT:
As a regulated entity with obligations under the Know Your Employee guidelines, a Certificate of Character is required.
PERSON SPECIFICATION:
The Programme Manager must demonstrate strong delivery discipline, sound judgement, and the confidence to manage complexity across multiple initiatives. They must be organised, objective, and comfortable navigating ambiguity while maintaining clarity for stakeholders. Professional maturity, integrity, and a collaborative mindset are essential to coordinate diverse teams, manage competing priorities, and drive outcomes aligned to enterprise value rather than local optimisation.
Applications will be treated with the utmost confidentiality.
The construction claims consultants with a distinguished, over 30-year track record, Guardian Group, now a division of YA, specializes in surety bond claims, construction defects, property & casualty claims, construction claims management, construction management and environmental claims & advisory services. No matter the size or complexity of your claim, case or issue, and regardless of geography, Guardian Group was engineered from the outset to deliver a more robust, more efficient, more enduring service value. Our regional offices make it so the right team of construction claims consultants may be deployed swiftly and cost-effectively.
Guardian Group serves surety bond companies, insurance carriers, law firms, municipalities, building owners and others with an unprecedented combination of forensic claims investigations and technical construction & engineering expertise. Guardian's seasoned professionals operate out of offices in Los Angeles, CA (Torrance), Sacramento, CA, Baltimore, MD (Bel Air), Dallas, TX, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Denver, CO, Nashville, TN and Phoenix, AZ.
Today, working in concert with YA, we provide you an unmatched team of technical experts, with 500+ people serving clients across the country, in Mexico and in England.
We look forward to connecting with you!
