Programme Delivery Lead
Technology is central to everything we do, and a key aspect is managing complex delivery programmes across the department to ensure we continue to provide value for the organisation and our customers.
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Technology is central to everything we do, and a key aspect is managing complex delivery programmes across the department to ensure we continue to provide value for the organisation and our customers. This role ensures alignment between roadmaps and execution, providing clear visibility of progress, managing dependencies and risks, and delivering programmes on time, within scope, and to agreed quality standards.
You will also support the delivery teams with their continuous improvement activities by providing regular metrics and insights. Working as the Programme Delivery Lead, you will collaborate with all levels in the technology team, other senior leaders to bring cohesion, consistency and insight to how we work.
What will you be doing
Programme Coordination & Reporting
Partner with delivery teams to draft and own the end-to-end programme plan
Coordinate delivery across multiple teams, ensuring workstreams are aligned
Identify, track, and actively manage cross-team dependencies and integration points
Resolve blockers and ensure smooth collaboration across teams and stakeholders
Drive programme execution to ensure delivery on time and within scope
Partner with delivery teams to contribute to delivery roadmaps
Establish a light governance framework to facilitate decision-making and clarity
Resolve blockers and ensure smooth collaboration across teams and stakeholders
Provide timely, structured reporting on progress, challenges, and trade-offs to project leads and stakeholders
Delivery Team Reporting
Partner with Product and Engineering to identify useful delivery team metrics
Provide clear monthly reporting on those delivery metrics to showcase delivery efficiency
Manage our delivery metric tools e.g. AWS Quick suite, JIRA, Plandek
Run monthly timesheet reporting in partnership with finance and delivery teams
Track forecasted and actual capitalisation rates in partnership with Finance
Provide monthly roadmap updates with relevant change highlighted
Deliver all reports in a timely manner to stakeholders
Continuous Improvement & Delivery Excellence
Drive adoption of best practice delivery across programme delivery
Provide recommendations that will improve delivery e.g. cycle time
Proactively embed AI, automation into operational processes to boost speed and quality
Lead and mentor associate level roles, foster a culture collaboration, innovation, accountability and ownership
Skills and Experience
Proven experience leading programme deliveries with inter-dependencies
Experience creating and managing programme plans and governance structures
Track record of delivering programmes within scope/time/resource constraints
Deep understanding of Agile, Scrum, and/or hybrid delivery methodologies
Proven experience of project management tools
Strong capability in planning, prioritisation, and resource coordination
Experience tracking and improving delivery performance and execution quality
Proactive mindset with a willingness to take initiative and drive progress
Strong inter-personal skills with technical / non-technical stakeholders
Ability to influence across teams without direct authority
Excellent problem-solving and decision-making capability
High degree of organisation, structure, and attention to detail
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
What’s in it for you
Our rapidly growing, award-winning business offers a dynamic environment for talented, entrepreneurial professionals to achieve results and grow their careers. Argus recognizes and rewards successful performance and as an Investor in People, we promote professional development and retain a high-performing team committed to building our success.
Competitive salary and company bonus scheme
Group pension scheme
Group healthcare and life assurance scheme
Hybrid working environment (currently one day in office)
25 days annual holiday with incremental increase up to 30 days
Subsidised gym membership
Season ticket travel loan
Cycle to work scheme
Flexible benefits platform (ability to buy additional medical cover, life assurance, dental cover, holiday, critical illness, travel insurance & health screening)
Extensive internal and external training
- Department
- Technology & Data
- Locations
- London
- Remote status
- Hybrid
About Argus Media
Argus is the leading independent provider of market intelligence to the global energy and commodity markets. We offer essential price assessments, news, analytics, consulting services, data science tools and industry conferences to illuminate complex and opaque commodity markets.
Headquartered in London with 1,500 staff, Argus is an independent media organisation with 32 offices in the world’s principal commodity trading hubs.
Companies, trading firms and governments in 160 countries around the world trust Argus data to make decisions, analyse situations, manage risk, facilitate trading and for long-term planning. Argus prices are used as trusted benchmarks around the world for pricing transportation, commodities and energy.
Founded in 1970, Argus remains a privately held UK-registered company owned by employee shareholders and global growth equity firm General Atlantic.