Location: Watford
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time - 37.5 hours - Monday to Friday
Creating and maintaining great places to live and work delivered by excellent people who care…
Purpose of Role
The Programme Manager will play a pivotal role in VINCI Facilities' central support team, overseeing the delivery of two critical Delegation-Wide Projects: Maximo (MAS) and Connect (SAP). This role ensures effective coordination, governance, risk management, and reporting, while working closely with stakeholders to deliver business-critical outcomes.
Job Description
The Programme Manager will lead the coordination of complex workstreams, driving the transition of our core business tools:
1. Works Management System: Moving from Maximo to MAS.
2. Finance Management System: Transitioning from COINS to Connect (SAP).
This role requires collaborative engagement with a wide range of stakeholders, including Workstream Leads, Project Teams, and the Executive Team. You will oversee project governance, risk mitigation, and ensure a smooth transition into business as usual (BAU) operations.
Responsibilities
1. Programme Coordination
• Develop and maintain the Master Programme, ensuring all deliverables and dependencies are tracked.
• Work with Workstream Leads to assess resource needs and address gaps.
• Facilitate the transition from development to BAU.
2. Stakeholder Collaboration
• Engage with Business Process Owners, Workstream Leads, and supporting teams.
• Collaborate with the Change Management team on UAT, training, and rollouts.
• Manage stakeholder communication, including executive reporting and steering groups.
3. Governance and Risk Management
• Ensure adherence to governance processes to prevent scope creep.
• Maintain the RAID log and develop responses to risks and issues.
• Lead lessons learned reviews and sprint planning sessions.
4. Budgeting and Value Analysis
• Partner with the Executive Team to manage budgets effectively.
• Conduct cost/value/benefit analyses of programme outcomes.
5. Change Management
• Implement methodologies to manage change requests and programme scope adjustments.
6. Integration Management
• Oversee SAP integrations to ensure readiness for UAT by Q4 2025.
Essential Qualifications/Skills
1. Proven experience in programme management, ideally within facilities management or IT/digital systems.
2. Strong stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills.
3. Expertise in governance processes, risk management, and reporting.
4. Familiarity with system integration and change management processes.
5. Confidence in presenting and reporting to executive-level stakeholders.
In return for your hard work we offer additional training and development, 26 days holiday (+ bank holidays), generous pension contribution, life assurance and much more.
We are VINCI Facilities – experts in the built environment. VINCI Facilities is a Facilities Management and Building Solutions provider, delivering cost-effective and sustainable bespoke solutions to customers in the public and private sectors. We are committed to working towards a lower carbon society, focusing on sustainable and innovative methods to exceed our partners' goals and add value for all stakeholders.
Fairness, Inclusion and Respect (FIR) at VINCI Facilities is about recognising and celebrating each other’s differences and what they bring to the team. Harnessing this diversity and applying the experiences, abilities and unique qualities of individuals will enhance our business; therefore, we commit to equity of opportunity and fair treatment of all current and potential employees and encourage job applications from all.
Should you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the application process please contact us directly.
VINCI recognises the importance of helping our employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements across many of our roles which include working from home to enable employees to balance their working life with other priorities.
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