Programme Director – Defence Experience – Remote – Inside IR35

Overview

As a Programme Director, you will lead end-to-end mobilisation and transition for complex defence and public sector contracts. You will work at executive level to meet challenging timescales and contractual commitments, driving governance, planning, and risk management. The role focuses on coordinating multiple workstreams, engaging senior stakeholders, and delivering a stable service as you transition into early life support. This remote contract role offers impactful work on large-scale transitions within a regulated environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multi-disciplinary mobilisation and transition team
• Drive programme governance, planning, controls and reporting
• Manage programme risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies and opportunities (RAID)
• Ensure delivery of critical milestones and Operational Service Commencement (OSC)
• Interface with senior client stakeholders and suppliers
• Provide executive-level reporting, assurance and decision support
• Lead mobilisation into early life support and stable service operations

Key requirements

• Proven Programme Director experience delivering large-scale transition, mobilisation or transformation programmes
• Strong Defence, Central Government or regulated-sector experience
• Expertise in programme governance, risk management, planning and stakeholder engagement
• Experience leading complex service transitions with multiple suppliers and stakeholders
• Strong leadership, influencing and communication skills with senior executives and client organisations

• leadership
• influencing
• communication
• programme governance
• risk management (RAID)
• planning and controls

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