Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
As a Programme Manager in Real Estate Programme Services, you will drive successful delivery of transformational capital programmes across real estate and construction environments within sectors such as Central Government, Health, Education, Life Sciences, Data Centres and Defence. You will lead small to medium programmes or support large-scale transformation initiatives within a multidisciplinary team, ensuring client outcomes are achieved and benefits realised. You will apply industry best practice methodologies across the programme lifecycle including proactive management of risks, issues, dependencies, change, planning, governance, stakeholder engagement and performance management. This role requires a collaborative and commercially aware individual who can balance strategic programme objectives with day-to-day delivery challenges, driving performance and creating value for clients.

Key Responsibilities
Programme Delivery: Manage the successful execution of small to medium scale real estate programmes, or support large-scale transformation initiatives through ownership and execution of assigned functions/elements of large-scale programmes, ensuring measurable benefits.
Leadership & Vision: Positively contribute to the set up and delivery of the direction of the programme by the programme team, empowering and inspiring teams to achieve success.
Programme Governance and Controls: Apply industry best practice programme management methodologies, governance and controls within a real estate environment consistently and appropriately. This includes maintaining programme logs/registers, performance reporting (e.g. presentations and status reports for leadership and governance forums), data quality and secretariat duties (preparing meeting materials, action tracking).
Stakeholder Engagement and Communication: Support robust processes for engaging and managing programme stakeholders such as stakeholder registers and communication plans.
Financial Oversight: Support the management and oversight of programme-level financial management processes, ensuring transparent and effective reporting.
Risk, Health & Safety: Understand and ensure compliance with governance and risk management requirements, instilling confidence in senior managers. Understand and control measures to proactively manage programme-wide health and safety risks, ensuring successful safeguards are in place.
People & Team: Positively contribute to the culture of internal and commission teams and contribute to internal team growth and our One Business culture. Promote a collaborative culture focused on high performance, innovation and continuous learning.

Experience
Proven experience in programme management with demonstrable achievement of benefits and outcomes for clients or employers. Experience operating in a fast-paced, high-performing real estate programme environment. Background in project delivery with progression into programme management within real estate or construction sectors. Familiarity with construction project delivery models, procurement routes and contracts (NEC, JCT). Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to successfully perform governance duties.

About you
Detail-oriented, strong leadership qualities and excellent organisational capability. Collaborative and commercially aware with the ability to balance strategic objectives and day-to-day delivery challenges. Analytical with commercial acumen and comfortable working with programme data, dashboards, and reporting systems. Proactive approach to data, innovation and digital tools and strategy, including the use of AI.

Qualifications
Degree or postgraduate qualification in a relevant field is desirable. Accreditation or working knowledge of programme management methodologies, ideally within the Real Estate sector. Professional membership (e.g. MSP) is desirable. Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and programme management tools, reporting systems and digital platforms.