Programme Manager

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About The Role

The Programme Manager provides strategic leadership and governance across Boldyn’s delivery portfolio, ensuring telecommunications and digital infrastructure programmes are delivered with precision, control and commercial discipline.

Reporting to the Programme Lead and aligned to one or more Heads of Delivery, the role oversees end-to-end performance across multiple concurrent projects - spanning Enterprise, Offshore, Private Networks, Venues, Special Events, Wi-Fi and NHIB environments. To support bids/pre-sales with delivery plans. This leadership role delivers programme certainty under high-risk, dynamic environments where deadlines are immovable, and stakeholder expectations are high. The Programme Manager steers the delivery and technical teams through changing circumstances, proactively managing complex risks while maintaining alignment with technical, commercial and strategic objectives. This role is responsible for ensuring delivery is resilient, adaptable and achieves the highest standards of performance.

What You’ll Be Doing

Programme Leadership & Governance

• Provide programme-level leadership, oversightandassurance across assigned delivery portfolios, ensuring full alignment with Boldyn’s governance frameworks.

• Translate strategic objectivesinto measurable delivery milestones, supporting structured control across the lifecycle.

• Lead governance forums and programme reviews, ensuring transparent and accuratereporting on progress, riskandinterdependencies.

• Maintain standardised RAID, change controlandreporting processes across portfolios, reinforcing consistency and accountability.

• Partner with the Programme Leadto continuously improve Boldyn’sprogramme and project delivery frameworks.

Risk, Quality & Assurance

• Own and manage programme-level RAID registers, ensuring proactive risk mitigation and clear escalation pathways.

• Oversee quality assurance, complianceandCDM adherence, maintainingauditable traceability across all delivery artefacts.

• Support internal and external audits, ensuring corrective actions are applied and lessons learned are embedded across portfolios.

Commercial & Financial Governance

• Collaborate with Commercial and Finance teams to manage budgets, financial forecastingand cost control

• Provide strategic oversight for contract negotiations, supplier performanceand commercial risk management

• Resolve commercial and contractual challenges swiftly, safeguarding programme continuity

Boldyn Governance

• Design and implement robust programme governance frameworks, including decision-making hierarchies, escalation pathwaysand control gates

• Drive a layered governance model ensuring appropriate delegationof responsibilities across strategic, tacticaland operational layers

• Oversee cross-functional integration between Design,Delivery (SeniorDelivery Manager and team), Commercial and stakeholders

• Maintain transparent, structured reporting to seniorleadership, ensuring swift, informed decision-making

• Provision of Programme information to support:

• Internal BPR (input only)

• Monthly project specificGovernance review with Exec team (prepare and lead session)

• Fortnightly Programme Board (prepare and chair)

• Monthly Operational and Delivery Governance (input only)

• Quarterly Continuous Improvement and Change Board (input only)

Change & Configuration Management

• Own programme-level change control processes, ensuring all technical and commercial changes are controlled, documentedandcommunicated.

• Maintain full version control and audit-ready documentation across design, technicalandcommercial baselines.

Stakeholder & Interface Management

• Act as the key interface between the Programme Lead, Heads of Delivery, customers, MNOs(as appropriate)andinternal stakeholders.

• Build and maintainstrong relationships with delivery, design, commercialandoperational teams to ensure alignment and transparency.

• Lead communication on programme health, presenting concise, evidence-based reporting to senior stakeholders.

• Represent Boldyn at governance boards, customermeetingsandexecutive reviews.

Leadership & Team Development

• Mentor and support SeniorDelivery Managers, Senior Project Managersandwider Programme Officeto ensure consistent application of governance standards.

• Promote collaboration, accountabilityandknowledge-sharing across the delivery function.

• Act as a role model for delivery discipline, fostering a culture of proactive control and continuous improvement.

• Ensure all projects that are being delivered have adequate delivery resources and business cases approved to support mobilisation (budgets, plansand visible acceptance criteria).

• Act as the senior escalation point for all internal and external stakeholders

Continuous Improvement & Transformation

• Drive lessons learned across programmes, embedding improvements in Boldyn’sprocesses and culture.

• Support the Programme Leadin the rollout of new systems, toolsandframeworks to enhance operational performance.

• Champion innovation and pragmatic delivery thinking that balance speed, accuracyandlong-term maintainability.

What You’ll Bring

Essential:

• Experience in programme management a within the telecoms sector

• Proven experience in programme or portfolio management within telecoms, wireless, or large-scale infrastructure delivery.

• Strong governance and risk management background, including RAID, RACIand quality frameworks.

• Able to operatecredibly and confidently at a senior, strategic level while remaining hands-onand willing to engage directly in operational delivery when required.

• Demonstrated success in leading multi-disciplinary delivery teams across concurrent, complex projects.

• Expertisein commercial control, budget governanceand benefits realisation.

• Advanced stakeholder management and executive reporting experience.

• Solid understanding of CDM 2015, H&S compliance and audit frameworks.

• Professional programme management certification (e.g. MSP, PgMP, or equivalent).

Desirable:

• Degree or equivalent experience in telecommunications, engineering, or project management.

• Experience in Enterprise, Offshore,Private Networks,Venues, Special Events, Wi-Fi, or NHIB delivery programmes.

• IOSH, SMSTS, or equivalent safety leadership qualification.

• Experience leading business transformation or framework implementation programmes.

About Us

At Boldyn Networks, we’re reimagining the future of interconnectivity. Our network solutions are solving some of tomorrow’s greatest challenges. We are one team across the globe. Always listening. Learning. We value different perspectives and challenge each other to be our best. Here, you can change lives today and create a better tomorrow.

Why work with us?

We’re large enough to deliver and maintain large-scale operations, giving you the opportunity to work on exciting projects and expand your skills. You’ll be surrounded talented colleagues who thrive on solving problems, just like you. Together, you’ll make your mark on projects that matter and find new strengths along the way.

We also offer:

• Flexible working opportunities
• Parental leave with up to 20 weeks paid at full salary
• Holiday allowance starting at 25 days rising with length of service
• 4 days off each year to volunteer

Ready to apply?

Are you ready to create an impact that will last for generations? Join us at Boldyn Networks today. Hit apply and follow the instructions to get started.

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