Strategy & Operations Programme Manager in London

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Job DescriptionStrategy & Operations Programme Manager

Location: London, UK
Length: 8 months
Rate: £49.04 per hour (Inside IR35)
Hours: 40 hours per week (Hybrid)

Job Description:
As a Functional Strategy Generalist, you contribute to core-problem structuring, owning research, data gathering, business insight, and analytic depth to support larger, more integrated, and complex strategic and operational initiatives within the PA, function, or sub-function. You interact regularly with PA, function, or sub-function stakeholders to persuasively communicate recommendations to area leadership, and influence decisions by building consensus and mobilizing towards implementation. You serve as a subject-matter specialist for a PA or function goals, direction, and priorities, with comprehensive knowledge of how the business area fits broadly into the company, as well as its existing OKRs, KPIs, business plans, and operating plans.

Responsibilities include:
- Manage key initiatives from inception to completion, including team-wide initiatives on projects to drive alignment and increase velocity.
- Work closely with function leaders, product managers, and product area leadership to drive operationalization of recommendations.
- Synthesize, understand, and make recommendations regarding trends in the future of work, including designing business strategy and technology strategy in tandem, translating market insights into action, shortening of strategic planning cycles, transforming digital and agile development, and tapping into ecosystem partners.
- Proactively identify defined problems and issues across the PA, function, or sub-function and create programs and processes to solve them. Structure defined and sometimes vague business issues for leadership team, and develop solutions to business and technical problems by documenting key requirements and supporting business case justification.
- Support executives in defining overall communications strategy across the function and regions, driving the planning of internal events and aligning internal communications.
- Establish and drive processes for effectively defining the function (e.g., OKRs, QBRs, annual planning, team meetings, budget, expenses).
- Manage workflows within the targeting and measurement processes, driving collaboration and engagement across stakeholders both to ensure timely and accurate delivery of work.
- Make recommendations regarding the development of PA, function, and/or sub-function strategies, collaborating with business area stakeholders.
- Drive strategic analysis, defining ways to optimize business performance and ensure best-in-class execution within relevant PA, function, or sub-function.
- Gather and analyze large amounts of information quickly and problem solve effectively, driving the development of compelling business recommendations.

Minimum role qualification requires proficiency in:
- Effective questioning
- KPIs
- Change management
- Business insights and analysis
- leadership alignment and stakeholder influence
- Business area knowledge
- Systems analysis
- Project management skills
- Data analysis
- Stakeholder management
- Negotiation

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