Programme Manager - UK Government

About this role

What we’re all about. It isn’t often you get to be part of a tech company that, since 2016, has been innovating the data analytics market in ways no-one else can. Our technology started out in FinTech, helping tackle serious criminal activity. Now, its potential is virtually limitless. Working at Quantexa isn't just intellectually stimulating. We’re a real team. Collaborating and constantly engineering better and better solutions. We’re ambitious, we think things through and we’re on a mission to discover just how far we go. Nearly half of our colleagues come from an ethnic or religious minority background. We’re made up of people from 47 nationalities who speak over 20 languages. As a diverse mix of individuals, we make one big unstoppable team. If our incredible culture sounds like you, we’d love you to join us. The opportunity. As a Programme Manager, you will lead the end-to-end delivery of complex Quantexa programmes for customers using our Decision Intelligence platform across multiple business use cases, workstreams or releases. You will own the overall success of the programme, providing strategic oversight across all projects and initiatives, driving business value realisation, shaping and prioritising the delivery pipeline, owning programme P&L, and enabling sustainable account growth through effective delivery. You will be part of the Project Management practice, a global network of project and programme management professionals within Quantexa, a group designed to support your career development and ensure you fulfil your full potential. As well as working with some of the largest and most prestigious organisations in the world, you will work hand in hand with our delivery partner network, including the big four consultancies and major systems integrators. What you’ll be doing. • Provide strategic direction and leadership for complex Quantexa programmes, setting clear objectives, priorities, success measures and an executable roadmap aligned with the customer’s strategic objectives and desired business outcomes. • Establish the programme organisation, governance forums, roles, controls and reporting, coordinating dependent projects, workstreams, releases, with clear accountability across Quantexa, customer and partner delivery teams. • Drive successful outcomes, owning value realisation and ensuring the programme delivers measurable business outcomes for the customer in the most effective and commercially sustainable way. • Own an integrated programme plan covering scope, milestones, dependencies, resources, critical path, risks and benefits, identifying roadblocks early, managing programme level risks and escalationsand driving corrective action. • Build trusted relationships with customer executives, programme sponsors and delivery leaders, influencing decisions and maintaining alignment across Quantexa, the customer and delivery partners. • Enable customers and partners to build the capability to adopt, operate and extend Quantexa successfully. • Take full ownership of P&L and commercial performance including budgets, forecasts, revenue, margin, contracts, change control, , resource and capacity planning and the cost-effective use of people and resources. • Embed Quantexa delivery methodologies, quality controls and best practice across the programme, ensuring solutions are operationally stable and aligned to current product capabilities and recommended technology. • Set the culture for collaboration, accountability and wellbeing, coaching Project Managers and cross-functional leads and resolving delivery tensions constructively. • Provide concise executive reporting on programme status, outcomes, financials, risks, decisions and key metrics, with clear recommendations and actions. • Identify opportunities to expand customer value and support account growth through delivery, improve delivery effectiveness and strengthen Quantexa’s programme management capability through lessons learned and reusable practice assets. What you’ll bring. • You are an accomplished programme management professional with a strong track record of leading and delivering large, complex technology or data programmes spanning multiple teams, workstreams and releases. • You have led customer-facing delivery in a consultancy, professional services, systems integrator or enterprise technology environment and are credible with senior executives and programme sponsors. • You have strong commercial judgement and experience owning programme P&L and commercial performance, including budgets, forecasting, margin, contracts, change control and resource and capacity planning. • You understand the full software delivery lifecycle and the factors required to deliver secure, high-quality and operationally stable enterprise platforms. • You are experienced in Agile delivery and can apply the right blend of Agile, iterative and programme controls across multiple teams and dependencies. • You are adept at leading in complex ecosystems involving customer teams, product and engineering functions, consulting teams and delivery partners., establishing clear accountability and alignment across organisations. • You communicate with clarity and gravitas, can simplify complex topics, influence senior stakeholders and challenge constructively to drive decisions and achieve the right outcome. • You bring strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills and can navigate ambiguity, make effective trade-offs and resolve complex delivery and commercial challenge while maintaining momentum and control. • You are a collaborative, emotionally intelligent leader who inspires others, develops talent and creates an inclusive, accountable culture. • Experience delivering programmes within Government or the wider Public Sector, particularly UK Central Government, would be advantageous. • Existing clearance to work within UK Government environments would be advantageous, with BPSS and ideally SC clearance. • Experience delivering data, analytics, AI, decision intelligence, financial crime, customer intelligence or public-sector transformation programmes would be advantageous. • A recognised programme or project management qualification such as MSP, PgMP, PRINCE2 or PMP would be beneficial. Our perks and quirks. What makes you Q will help you to realize your full potential, flourish and enjoy what you do, while being recognized and rewarded with our broad range of benefits. We offer: • Competitive salary & Company bonus • 25 days annual leave (with the option of buying up to 5 days, and rolling over up to 10), plus national holidays + your birthday off! • Pension scheme with a company contribution of 6% (when you contribute 3%) • Private Healthcare, including dental & optic cover • Life Insurance and Income Protection • Regularly bench-marked salary rates • Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, Adoption, or Shared Parental Leave • Well-being days • Volunteer Day off • Work from Home Equipment • Commuter, Tech and cycle to work schemes • Free Subscription to a meditation, relaxation and sleep app • Continuous Training and Development • Spend up to 2 months working outside of your country of employment over a rolling 12-month period with our ‘Work from Anywhere’ policy • Team Social Budget & Company-wide Socials Our mission. We have one mission. To help businesses grow. To make data easier. And to make the world a better place. We’re not a start-up. Not anymore. But we’ve not been around that long either. What we are is a collection of bright, passionate minds harnessing complexities and helping our clients and their communities. One culture, made of many. Heading in one direction – the future. It’s all about you. We want you to feel welcome, valued, and respected - because it’s your individuality and passion that make you Q . We see that, and we celebrate it. That’s why we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse work environment, continuously improving to ensure everyone belongs. Our recruitment process is designed to be inclusive and accessible. If you need any reasonable adjustments or accommodations, please let our Talent Acquisition Team know - we’re happy to assist. No matter your race, beliefs, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, neurodiversity, or abilities—whoever you are—if you're a passionate, curious, and caring human eager to push the boundaries of what’s possible, we want to hear from you.