Senior Programme Manager – Value Creation Plan; VCP

Overview

Manchester, United Kingdom

The Senior Programme Manager – VCP is a critical delivery and enablement leader responsible for driving execution rigour, pace, and value realisation across Inizio’s Value Creation Plan. Acting as a programme-level leader across multiple priority initiatives, the role brings structure, challenge, and best practice to complex delivery environments, while partnering closely with embedded Project Managers and senior initiative owners.

The role plays a dual mandate:

• Ensure delivery excellence across assigned VCP initiatives through strong programme leadership, governance, and assurance; and
• Enable value creation
  , by embedding consistent delivery discipline, connecting initiatives where helpful, and supporting leaders to stay focused on outcomes rather than activity.

In this role you will typically support 3–4 priority VCP initiatives
, represent the Central PMO in senior governance forums, and operate as a trusted advisor to initiative sponsors, PMs, and functional leaders. The role could be based out of our Dublin, Manchester, Ashby or London offices, operating on a hybrid basis.

• VCP Programme Delivery: Act as programme-level delivery lead across assigned VCP initiatives, partnering with initiative sponsors and assigned project managers to shape delivery plans, milestones, and outcomes aligned to value creation objectives
• Project Planning & Oversight: Provide oversight of delivery plans across initiatives, ensuring scope, dependencies, risks, and critical paths are understood and actively managed at a portfolio level
• Workstream Enablement & Intervention: Provide content-focused workstream support to unblock delivery challenges and accelerate progress where required
• PM Capability Uplift & Standards Enablement: Lead PM enablement and capability uplift, working collaboratively with the Inizio global portfolio lead to embed consistent delivery discipline, governance, and Inizio PMO standards across VCP initiatives. Also identifying opportunities to continue to elevate standards across the organisation
• Embedded PM Partnership: Act as a trusted delivery partner to embedded Project Managers and workstream leads, providing coaching, challenge, and hands-on support without duplicating delivery ownership.
• Governance & Reporting: Represent the central PfMO across VCP governance and Steer Cos, providing decision-ready insight on delivery confidence, trade-offs, and implications for value realisation. Ensure clear, concise and accurate reporting from priority VCP initiatives, aligned to Inizio PfMO standards, through key portfolio governance fora
• Risk, Dependency & Value Leakage Management: Identify and manage delivery risks, cross-initiative dependencies, and value leakage across the VCP portfolio, coordinating mitigation actions as required
• Delivery & Benefits Assurance: In partnership with Financial Controller, provide delivery and benefits assurance, intervening early where plans lack robustness, momentum weakens, or outcomes drift from intent
• Benefits Definition & Tracking: In partnership with initiative teams and the Finance Enablement Lead, define, baseline, and track initiative-level benefits, including leading and lagging indicators, ensuring consistency and portfolio-level oversight.
• Commercial & Financial
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Work closely with the Financial Controller on business cases, benefits profiling, and timeline stress-testing during project mobilisation and at critical milestones.

Required Skills & Experience

• Senior Programme Management: Proven experience delivering complex, multi-workstream programmes within a PE-backed Transformation or Value Creation environment.
• Delivery Discipline & Governance: Strong capability in embedding consistent delivery standards, governance frameworks, and ways of working across enterprise portfolios.
• Planning, Risk & Dependency Management: Demonstrated expertise in integrated planning, risk identification, mitigation planning, and management of cross-initiative dependencies.
• Senior Stakeholder Engagement: Confident communicator with experience engaging Executive Sponsors and presenting clear, outcome-focused updates at Steer…