Programme Leadership & Delivery

• Lead end-to-end programme delivery across all workstreams, including pilot deployments and regional rollout.

• Drive completion of cyber recovery implementation and testing across corporate functions and local business entities through designated delivery owners.

• Develop and manage an integrated programme roadmap covering commitments, dependencies, design approvals, implementation milestones, testing and acceptance criteria.

• Monitor risks, issues and dependencies, driving corrective actions and escalating challenges through programme governance.

• Translate business-defined minimum viable operations, Important Business Services and impact tolerances into recovery scope, priorities and delivery acceptance criteria.

Technical Delivery Oversight

• Coordinate implementation across cyber security, infrastructure, cloud and technology teams.

• Drive architecture reviews, design approvals, recovery testing and operational readiness through responsible technical owners.

• Ensure alignment with technology standards, security requirements and resilience objectives, with exceptions resolved or formally accepted.

• Ensure recovery testing meets approved acceptance criteria, with defects and gaps closed or formally accepted before rollout or handover.

Key Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business or a related discipline.

• 15+ years' experience delivering large-scale technology or transformation programmes.

• Experience managing complex, multi-country initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and vendors.

• Proven experience delivering infrastructure or resilience programmes across design, implementation, testing and operational transition.

• Experience within insurance, financial services or another regulated industry.

• Strong programme governance, financial management, stakeholder engagement and delivery leadership skills.

• Strong working knowledge of cyber resilience, cyber recovery, disaster recovery, enterprise infrastructure, cloud platforms, storage, and backup and recovery solutions.

• Ability to challenge technical delivery assumptions and assess recovery test plans, readiness evidence and acceptance criteria.

Interested? Apply with your CV or contact Oliver James for a confidential discussion.