Programme Director

Bracknell, England, United Kingdom

6/17/2025

Job Description

Programme Director

Hybrid - Bracknell / Basingstoke

The Programme Director will own and has ultimate accountability for the successful delivery of change programmes and projects.

• Will own the overall portfolio delivery direction and vision in conjunction with the Delivery Executive and the MOD customer.
• Will lead a team of Program and Project managers, including leveraging the Programme Management Office (PMO) to achieve business benefits for both the customer and Fujitsu Defence and National Security (DNS).
• Is accountable for the effective management of programmes and projects, their risks, issues, conflicts, priorities, resources, and communications, ensuring delivery of the new capabilities and benefits.
• The Portfolio Delivery Director will be the main motivator throughout the delivery of change programmes, managing key stakeholders to mutual benefit by ensuring that the programme goals are met by providing a motivation capacity that cannot be achieved at programme or project level.
  
  

Mandatory Skills / Experience

• Provides strong leadership and guidance to programme and project teams as well as setting strategic direction and vision.
• Supports personal and professional development within programme team/s and wider community.
• Directs the management of the business and overall Portfolio risk. Ensures the production of effective mitigation plans and risk assessments so that timescales and overall Portfolio / programme / project costs are understood and underwritten by all the relevant stakeholders.
• Effective P&L management across Portfolio of programmes / projects and that all contingency usage is signed-off by the appropriate governance authority.
• Experienced Programme Manager (large complex programs and ideally at portfolio level)
• Strong senior customer / stakeholder management (internal / external)
• Strong governance and control (financial/risk/issues/dependency management)
• Finds solutions / thinks out of the box.
• Strong communicator and experience with working under pressure.
  
  

This role will require you to become security cleared to a high level. Please visit National security vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Your Benefits

26 Days annual leave plus public holidays (3 flexible)

Pension – Double matching contributions of up to 10%

Life assurance

Companywide incentive plans

Your choices (Flexible benefits such as increased holidays/ travel/ dental critical illness and more)

Perks at work – employee discounts

Employee assistance programme/ virtual GP

Recruitment process

The recruitment process consists of two stages of interviews.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Email [email protected] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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We are recognised as a responsible and inclusive employer: Not only are we a certified Disability Confident Leader, a Times Top 50 employer for Gender Equality, a Top 75 employer for Social Mobility, accredited with the Living Wage Foundation and a signatory for the Race at Work Charter, but we are also committed to the United Nations standards for LGBTI+ and a Stonewall Top 100 Employer.

We are people centric: Our work environments enable you to Be Completely You. Our active people-led Inclusive Community networks are representative of all aspects of diversity and are instrumental in enabling and supporting our innovative approach to inclusion.