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We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our global theme park destinations, consumer products, and experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through our powerhouse film and television studios, including Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, and Focus Features, and the four global television studios under the Universal Studio Group banner, and operate industry-leading theme parks and experiences around the world through Universal Destinations & Experiences, including Universal Orlando Resort, home to Universal Epic Universe, and Universal Studios Hollywood. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation. Visit www.nbcuniversal.com for more information.\nOur impact is rooted in improving the communities where our employees, customers, and audiences live and work. We have a rich tradition of giving back and ensuring our employees have the opportunity to serve their communities. We champion an inclusive culture and strive to attract and develop a talented workforce to create and deliver a wide range of content reflecting our world.\n OVERVIEW\nThe Senior Programme Manager is responsible for leading the planning, governance and delivery of a portfolio of strategic technology programmes, major initiatives and standalone projects across NBCUniversal’s global enterprise environment. Working closely with senior technology and business leaders, this role translates strategic direction into structured delivery plans, roadmaps, budgets, governance, executive reporting and operational readiness activities.\nThis is a highly autonomous delivery role, operating as a trusted strategic partner to senior leadership. The role may oversee several large portfolio items at any one time, each with multiple workstreams, dependencies and sub-projects, alongside separate business-critical initiatives. It creates structure, accountability and momentum across complex delivery activity, coordinating technical subject matter experts, business stakeholders, Finance, Procurement and third-party vendors to ensure initiatives are delivered effectively from concept through to operational handover.\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\nLead the planning, governance and delivery of a mixed portfolio of strategic programmes, major initiatives and standalone projects, including portfolio items made up of multiple workstreams, dependencies and sub-projects.\nTranslate senior leadership priorities into clear delivery plans, programme roadmaps, workstreams, milestones and measurable outcomes.\nProvide leadership across programme teams and promote programme management best practices. \nEstablish and maintain appropriate programme governance, including integrated plans, RAID logs, decision records, action tracking, dependency management and leadership reporting.\nCoordinate cross-functional delivery across technical teams, business stakeholders, Finance, Procurement, PMO, vendors and external delivery partners.\nDevelop and maintain programme budgets, forecasts and financial tracking, ensuring expenditure, commercial commitments and key variances are clearly understood and communicated.\nMonitor programme performance, risks, issues, and mitigation plans. \nSupport procurement and vendor activities, including statement of work coordination, milestone tracking, invoice review, purchasing activity and supplier delivery oversight.\nProduce high-quality executive updates, steering committee materials, dashboards and presentations that provide clear visibility of progress, risks, dependencies, decisions and financial performance.\nDevelop business cases, benefits realization plans, and ROI analyses. \nDrive accountability and momentum across programme teams, ensuring actions, decisions and commitments are documented, followed through and escalated where appropriate.\nPartner with senior leadership on long range planning, investment planning, resource forecasting, portfolio planning and strategic roadmap development.\nEnsure operational readiness is considered throughout delivery, including support models, onboarding workflows, device and workplace technology readiness, handover activity and transition into business-as-usual operations.\nIdentify opportunities to improve programme governance, delivery practices, reporting, documentation and operational outcomes across the portfolio.\n EXPERIENCE\nProven experience leading complex technology programmes, strategic initiatives or business transformation activity within a large, global enterprise environment.\nDemonstrated ability to convert high-level business or technology objectives into structured delivery plans, governance and successful outcomes.\nExperience managing a portfolio of concurrent programmes and projects, including large initiatives with multiple sub-projects, workstreams, dependencies and senior stakeholder groups.\nExperience delivering technology workstreams for real estate activity, including new site builds, office moves, refurbishments, consolidations and workplace transformation programmes.\nExperience supporting business-led change where technology delivery is required to solve operational challenges, improve user experience or enable new ways of working.\nExperience coordinating workplace technology readiness across business change initiatives, ensuring requirements, delivery plans, phasing and support arrangements are clearly defined.\nStrong understanding of enterprise technology environments, including infrastructure, networking, end user computing, workplace technology, unified communications, cyber security, identity and access, automation and AI-enabled service transformation.\nExperience developing leadership reporting, programme dashboards, steering committee materials, financial summaries and executive presentations.\nStrong financial and commercial awareness, including budget planning, forecasting, spend tracking, procurement coordination and vendor management.\nExperience developing business cases, benefits realization frameworks, and ROI analyses. \nExcellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to build credibility with senior technology, business and operational leaders.\nExperience working with globally distributed teams across multiple regions and time zones.\nStrong proficiency with programme planning, reporting and presentation tools such as Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, Monday.com, Power BI, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio.\nProfessional project or programme management certification such as PMP, PRINCE2, PgMP, APM or equivalent is desirable.\nQUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS\nBachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience. \nProfessional certification such as PMP, PgMP, PRINCE2, Agile, Scrum, or equivalent. \nExcellent executive communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills. \nStrong 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NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.\nIf you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. 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