Programme Manager
Aurora Energy Research
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Oxford • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
ERPPMP
About the role
- Lead the end‑to‑end delivery of Aurora’s enterprise transformation programme, ensuring alignment with strategic goals, target state design, and business priorities
- Establish and maintain robust governance structures, reporting mechanisms, RAID management, and decision‑making processes across all workstreams
- Manage programme‑level timelines, scope, budget, dependencies, and critical paths to ensure successful and sustainable delivery
- Build strong relationships with senior leaders and cross‑functional stakeholders across Commercial, Advisory, Finance, Technology, Legal, and People & Culture
- Communicate progress, risks, and change impacts clearly and proactively to executive sponsors and programme steering committees
- Facilitate workshops, design sessions, and roadmap discussions to ensure clarity, alignment, and shared ownership
- Coordinate external consultancy partners, ensuring effective mobilisation, clear deliverables, strong performance, and value for money
- Ensure partner proposals, methodologies, and designs align with Aurora’s strategic intent and long‑term technology roadmap
- Ensure programme outputs translate into measurable business outcomes, including efficiency gains, improved data quality, and enhanced user experience
- Work closely with the Change Manager to drive organisational readiness, training needs assessment, and adoption planning in partnership with business functions
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement, future‑proofing processes and systems to enable innovation and ongoing evolution
Requirements
- Proven experience leading complex, multi‑workstream transformation programmes within technology‑enabled business environments
- Strong background in enterprise systems delivery, ideally including CRM (Salesforce) and ERP (Dynamics 365 F&O) or similar platforms
- Experience working with external consultancies or delivery partners
- Demonstrable ability to orchestrate process redesign programmes across multiple business functions
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and engage senior leaders and cross‑functional teams
- Highly organised with excellent time management, prioritisation, and programme structuring capability
- Strong communication skills, with experience preparing clear executive updates, roadmap materials, and governance documentation
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively, taking full ownership while fostering teamwork and shared accountability
- A proactive, pragmatic, and solution‑oriented mindset with a passion for delivering tangible business value
- Formal programme or project management qualifications (e.g., MSP, PMP, PRINCE2, Agile certifications)
- Experience delivering large‑scale transformation in high‑growth or multi‑entity global organisations
- Familiarity with enterprise data strategies or modern data platform concepts (e.g., Microsoft Fabric, enterprise data layers)
- Understanding of integration architecture, API‑driven design, and automation tooling
- Exposure to lead‑to‑cash transformation programmes or back‑office systems modernisation
Benefits
- Private Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Parental Support
- Salary-Exchange Pension
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Local Oxford Discounts
- Cycle-to-work Scheme
- Flu Jabs
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
enterprise transformationprogramme deliveryprocess redesignintegration architectureAPI-driven designautomation toolingdata quality improvementCRMSalesforceERP
Soft skills
stakeholder managementcommunicationtime managementprioritisationteamworkownershipproactive mindsetsolution-orientedinfluencingcollaboration
Certifications
MSPPMPPRINCE2Agile certifications