Programme Director - Central Government

Role: Programme Director REF 105610
Contract Length: Until 31/03/27
Location: Hybrid/London - 2/3 days per week in office with travel to Reading / Bristol)
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: £1200 per day
Security Clearance: SC requested

Spinwell is recruiting for a Programme Director for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE PROGRAMME DIRECTOR

Strategic Programme Leadership:

• Own the successful delivery of the ERP replacement programme, ensuring it meets time, cost and quality objectives.
• Maintain a clear vision, roadmap, and delivery strategy aligned with Defence, CSM and DPT priorities.

Business Change & Benefits Realisation:

• Lead the business transformation agenda, ensuring robust engagement with military and civilian stakeholders.
• Embed new ways of working and realise planned benefits in workforce efficiency, HR service improvement, and data insights.

Data Migration & Readiness:

• Oversee strategy and execution for data quality, cleansing, migration and readiness across multiple legacy systems, ensuring a smooth and accurate transition to the new ERP platform.

  Senior Stakeholder Engagement:

• Act as the primary interface for the programme with senior Defence leaders, Enabling Organisations and delivery partners.
• Build confidence in delivery through clear, credible and transparent reporting, working across an extensive range of stakeholders.

Governance & Assurance:

• Own and lead programme governance, including Steering Groups, formal assurance gates, and audit actions.
• Manage dependencies with other major programmes across Defence, including Defence Reform.

PMO Oversight:

• Lead a high-performing Programme Management Office, ensuring excellence in planning, reporting, risk management, financial oversight, and benefits tracking.

  Team Leadership & Culture:

• Build and sustain a diverse, motivated and resilient team culture that reflects Civil Service values.
• Develop capability across the programme and wider transformation community.
• Continuous development of team members will be essential, to ensure ability to operate confidently at stretch.

Leadership of Product Teams:

• Lead and develop four cross-functional teams (each led by a Head of Product and Head of Delivery), as well as a number of ‘cross-cutting’ specialists, fostering a culture of collaboration, user-focus, agile delivery, and continuous improvement.
• Continuous development of team members will be essential, to ensure ability to operate confidently at stretch.

User-Centred Design:

• Embed service design, user research and agile methodologies into the heart of product development.
• Ensure user experience (UX) and accessibility standards are met and iteratively improved.

Policy Optimisation and Simplification:

• Lead the review, challenge and optimisation of policy, process and business rules to ensure they are simplified, standardised and fit for digital delivery.
• Work with policy owners, operational stakeholders and design teams to identify unnecessary complexity, remove non-value-adding variation, and translate agreed policy positions into clear, deterministic requirements that enable adoption of standard system functionality, maximise business benefits and minimise ongoing operational and technology costs.

SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE PROGRAMME DIRECTOR

• Extensive Oracle Fusion and ERP implementation leadership experience, with a strong track record of leading complex, end-to-end ERP programmes at a senior leadership level.
• Deep EPR/HCM implementation experience, covering the full implementation lifecycle from strategy, design and mobilisation through to implementation, transition and business adoption.
• Strong HR transformation expertise, including the delivery of HCM-enabled business and organisational change and an understanding of the people, process and technology impacts of transformation.
• Proven leadership of complex digital platform implementations, with the ability to manage large-scale transformation across multiple stakeholders, functions and business areas.
• End-to-end programme leadership, demonstrating sustained ownership and accountability throughout the full ERP/HCM implementation journey rather than experience limited to a specific project phase or workstream.
• Defence sector experience is desirable, particularly experience of working within complex Defence organisations and an understanding of their structures, processes, culture and operating environment.
• Strong organisational and cultural change awareness, with the ability to anticipate and manage the cultural and workforce impacts associated with major ERP, HCM and HR transformation.
• Senior stakeholder management and leadership, with the ability to engage effectively with executive stakeholders, business leaders, technology teams and wider organisational groups throughout a major transformation programme.

If you are a Programme Director, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!

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