Arrow Global Group

Programme Manager

Arrow Global Group  •  Manchester, GB (Onsite)  •  2 hours ago
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Job Description

Programme Manager

Department: IT & Change

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Manchester, UK

We are seeking a highly organized, outcome-driven Program Manager (PM) to play a foundational role in our newly formed Data group. This role requires program leadership, operating discipline, stakeholder management, and a strong understanding of data delivery in a complex, fast-paced environment. The PM will translate business demand into clear plans, align deliverables to business priorities, and keep cross-functional teams aligned, focused, and moving at pace.

Working closely with Data Stewards, Data Quality, Data Architecture, and Data Engineering, the PM will help move data products through the “data machine” with predictability, transparency, and speed. This is a hands-on, high-impact role for a technical PM who thrives in ambiguity, creates order from complexity, and is excited to help shape a new operating model and delivery cadence from the ground up.

About the role

  • Own the data program plan: roadmap, milestones, dependencies, risks, and delivery cadence
  • Partner with the Head of Data to translate business priorities and Consumer demand into an actionable book of work
  • Drive prioritization across roughly twenty-five platforms and 100–125 data products, balancing value, readiness, complexity, and capacity
  • Coordinate platform Suppliers, Data Stewards, Data Quality, Data Architecture, and Data Engineering to onboard data products through the ‘data machine’
  • Monitor progress, SLAs, and blockers, driving issue resolution and escalations to keep delivery on track
  • Build governance, reporting, and executive communications covering outcomes, resources, budget, and performance
  • Improve the operating model by increasing throughput, compressing cycle time, and scaling delivery

About you

  • Proven experience managing complex programs or transformation initiatives, ideally within data, technology, financial services, or platform operations
  • Strong program management discipline: planning, controls, governance, RAID, dependency management, and SteerCo-level reporting
  • Skilled at translating business priorities into delivery plans across consumer, supplier, and technology teams
  • Able to coordinate multiple stakeholders and delivery functions in a matrixed environment
  • Working understanding of data lifecycle concepts: onboarding, cataloging, quality, stewardship, pipelines, and standards; sufficient to coordinate technical teams effectively
  • Commercially minded, comfortable balancing value, risk, urgency, capacity, and delivery trade-offs
  • Resourceful self-starter with strong ownership, communication, and stakeholder management skills
  • Comfortable operating amid ambiguity and helping stand up a new function from the ground up

Arrow Global Group

About Arrow Global Group

Arrow is a leading European vertically integrated alternative asset manager specialising in private credit and real estate.

Arrow was founded in 2005 by Zach Lewy, CEO, CIO, with the ambition of creating Europe’s leading private credit and real estate investment platform. Today, we deliver best-in-class risk-adjusted returns for global investors across real estate, direct lending, and opportunistic credit. Arrow’s hallmark is to invest opportunistically, moving between European geographies, asset classes and positions in the capital stack as we evaluate evolving risk/return dynamics. To execute this strategy, Arrow has developed its geographic and asset-class expertise in its target markets.

We own critical parts of the European infrastructure which gives us a practical advantage when operating in fragmented European markets. Our best-in-class asset management and servicing platforms generate differentiated opportunities through a disciplined investing, underwriting insight and proprietary dealflow. This vertically integrated advantage allows us to create sustainable value through market cycles.

Arrow’s local advantage is underpinned by 4,400 talented professionals who are deeply connected to our local markets. We have brought together leading practitioners, both locally and centrally, in the European credit and real estate, and our diverse workforce means we build meaningful connections in these markets through our investments.

Our teams are experts in their chosen fields, and our specialist teams cover areas such as development finance, non-performing loans, single name bankruptcy, corporate restructuring, bridge and agricultural lending, and small business loans. Our local advantage also extends to our unrivalled origination network, forensic underwriting, and portfolio management.

With the added benefit of key European regulatory licences, we service approximately €112 billion of AUM.

Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Headquarters
London, GB
Year Founded
2005
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