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Target Group

Client Programme Manager

Target Group

Programme Manager responsible for leading client change delivery, maintaining alignment with client strategies while working in a hybrid model with regular office visits. Focus on delivery excellence and team leadership.

Posted 5/13/2026full-timeCardiff • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSenior💰 £74,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Partner with clients to drive delivery excellence
  • Oversee and lead a team to ensure alignment with client needs
  • Be trusted as a delivery partner and nurture relationships with clients
  • Translate client needs into structured delivery roadmaps
  • Ensure projects are scoped, planned, and delivered to agree milestones
  • Apply financial awareness to programme decisions and manage budgets
  • Lead, develop, and support Project Managers
  • Champion continuous improvement and enhance processes

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • An excellent communicator who builds strong relationships with clients and colleagues
  • Organised, structured and confident managing time and competing priorities
  • Commercially astute and comfortable managing budgets
  • A supportive leader who grows others
  • Accountable, solutions‑focused and calm under pressure
  • Always looking for ways to improve how things are done
  • Proven experience delivering change in a client-facing role
  • Strong financial services experience
  • A PM qualification (APM, Prince2, or equivalent)
  • Experience leading PMs and managing portfolios
  • Experience with Waterfall, Agile and Hybrid approaches
  • Bonus Skills (Nice to Have)
  • Experience delivering in outsourced or BPO environments
  • Offshore team collaboration
  • Exposure to ISO/CMMI
  • Agile qualifications and/or MSP certification

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • 30 days holiday entitlement plus bank holidays (From Day 1)
  • Defined Pension Contribution Scheme (Employer matched up to 6%). Plus, option to contribute via Salary Exchange (alternatively known as Salary Sacrifice)
  • Employee Discount Scheme, access to discounts and offers across 100s of leading retailers. Plus, cashback on purchases
  • Company Paid Private Medical Insurance (benefit in kind)
  • Group Life Assurance
  • Group Income Protection
  • Discretionary Annual Pay Review
  • Discretionary Annual Bonus Scheme
  • Loyal Service Scheme - rewarding your commitment with financial recognition, additional holidays, and matched pension contributions of up to 10% at key service milestones.
  • Free Flu Vaccinations, Eye Tests and employer contribution towards glasses
  • Recognition Scheme
  • Free Mortgage Advice and Support
  • Wisdom Wellbeing, your go to for wellbeing resources and solutions to include an Employee Assistance Program
  • Everest Funeral Concierge
  • Free Bereavement and Probate Advice and Support
  • Access to a GP 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year through GP24
  • Paid eye tests and employer contribution towards spectacles specifically for VDU use.
  • Enhanced parental leave
  • You can also select other benefits, we cover the upfront cost and make monthly deductions from your pay, interest free!
  • Technology Buying Scheme
  • Discounted Gym Memberships
  • Taste Card / Coffee Club Membership
  • Charitable Payroll Giving
  • Cycle to work Scheme (Salary Sacrifice)

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Hard Skills & Tools
Project ManagementWaterfallAgileHybridBudget ManagementChange DeliveryPortfolio ManagementContinuous ImprovementProcess EnhancementClient Needs Translation
Soft Skills
Excellent CommunicationRelationship BuildingOrganizational SkillsTime ManagementCommercial AwarenessLeadershipAccountabilitySolutions-FocusedCalm Under PressureAdaptability
Certifications
APMPrince2Agile QualificationsMSP Certification