Programme Manager

The Programme Manager one or projects at any one time in an efficient and effective manner, and is responsible for their delivery within agreed timescales, budgets and conformance to agreed requirements. This person is also responsible for leading more PM’s and the efficient utilization of assigned staff and any associated third parties. They are accountable for ensuring that all project activities conform to the company’s quality management standards and processes.

Responsibilties

• Plans and manages one or more projects assigned, keeping the customer and senior management informed about project progress;
• Compiles and agrees the project plan with the client.
• Compiles and agrees with the client any Statements of Work in line with contractual arrangements with the client.
• Monitors progress against project plan and budget, correcting and / or escalating abnormal situations when necessary;
• Maintains the Project Plan, in particular with forecast completion dates and impact analysis;
• Tracks actual costs vs plan (using Microsoft project and our internal Dynamics FO time recording system);
• Maintains awareness of all ongoing non-trivial problems towards their solution. Ensures that project objectives are met;
• Monitors and controls all individuals allocated to the project ensuring that all project activities are carried out in accordance with the appropriate standards. This includes ensuring that activities are planned and executed in line with the KPMG Microsoft Business Solutions project delivery methodology;
• Manages any third parties that may be involved as sub-contractors within the project, as relevant, and ensures that any deliverables are produced on time, to required quality standards, and in line with agreed commercials;
• Ensures Risks and Issues are being correctly assessed and reported. Pro-actively predicts and mitigates risk;
• Participates in client reporting sessions, including as relevant, weekly progress review meetings and (typically) monthly Steering Committee meetings
• Tracks actual vs. budgeted costs and effort on a weekly basis;
• Plans and monitors any validation activities with the customer to ensure that all requirements are met;
• Plans and monitors any internal verification activities, including any reviews, walkthroughs and testing, and oversees the correction of non-conformities to ensure quality of all project deliverables;
• Plans and monitors release and implementation activities (e.g. release and/or implementation plans, hand over/support documentation, etc.);
• Works very closely with the Solution Architect on an ongoing basis in ensuring the overall quality of deliverables prior to release to the client;
• Receives, analyses and co-ordinates the implementation of project/system live changes requested by the customer when applicable;
• Addresses all project customer satisfaction issues, escalating feedback as necessary for further action;
• Participates in KPMG Microsoft Business Solutions resource management, utilisation and capacity planning processes.
• Minimises non-billable resource utilisation on projects, and escalates as required with the Senior Programme Manager and Resourcing to optimise billable use of resources. Escalates any forecasted requirements for non-billable effort with the Senior Programme Manager in order to maintain awareness and if possible mitigate. Tracks non-billable effort against the project budget;
• Contributes towards continuous refinement and improvement of our best practice project delivery methodology. Offers advice and mentors more junior Project Manages and members of staff. Liaises with peers to provide assistance and convey lessons learnt as required, in order to promote and improve the ove

KPMG UK is seeking a dynamic Senior Manager or Associate Director to join our Data & AI practice, with a focus on healthcare and the NHS. This is a client-facing leadership position for an individual with deep NHS experience, proven sales acumen, and a passion for driving impactful change through data, analytics, and AI. You will lead multiple complex projects and large workstreams, shape go-to-market offerings and play a pivotal role in growing our healthcare data and AI business.

Director – Financial Services – Identity and Access Management

The role will be working in the UK Cyber Security practice within our Technology and Data service line in Advisory. Our clients are increasingly under cyber-attack and regulatory scrutiny to demonstrate effective management of cyber risk. Our specialists provide independent, jargon free advice and advanced technical capabilities to help our clients proactively manage cyber and technology risks to drive value from their business information assets whilst protecting business.

 Our cyber security services are defined within three capability groups:

• Cyber Risk, Resilience and Privacy
• Identity and access management (IAM) and cloud security
• Cyber Threat Management

Senior Sales & Business Development Executive - Cloud Transformation

KPMG’s UK Cloud practice is an award-winning team of over 750 consultants, architects and engineers who help clients transform the way CIOs and their teams deliver technology services to their business stakeholders, using IaaS and PaaS cloud technologies.
Our team help the UK’s largest and most complex organisations develop cloud strategies, build the operating models, architectures and capabilities to deliver value from cloud, and to build and operate their cloud or hybrid estates effectively and cost-efficiently.
We use KPMG’s deep industry insights, C-suite relationships, cloud architecture capabilities, alliances and cloud adoption accelerators ranging from our cloud value labs and KPMG Cloud Cost Management models to our controls frameworks and landing zones. Our engineering squads work with several FTSE25 companies, the largest government departments as well as building the technologies which underpin KPMG’s products and managed services. As we implement these strategies and solutions we sit at the heart of major transformations across the UK, helping technology executives convert business strategy into compelling technology outcomes.

We are growing our Sales and Business Development team to focus on selling our cloud services to meet an ever-increasing demand for our market leading offerings and are seeking your relevant expertise and experience to join us.
 

The Role:
 

As an experienced professional in sales and business development, you’ll be quick to adapt to new situations and bring your knowledge and experience to join our highly talented and passionate cloud transformation team. You’ll be at the forefront of some of the most exciting, complex and leading-edge sales opportunities.
 

At KPMG, your role is key in delivering our growth strategy and responsible for selling the full portfolio of Cloud solutions to clients across markets. The BDM role involves:

• Secure and foster relationships with CIO-level clients to uncover cloud transformation opportunities
• Build relationships and be a trusted advisor to our clients with respect to KPMG’s Cloud Transformation propositions.
• Driving collaboration with consulting teams to help qualify opportunities and lead and manage pursuits, especially around our implementation services
• Work with our consulting teams to define market-leading, client-focused Cloud propositions
• Maintain a regular communication with the wider business development team and ensure targets are delivered
• Working with pre-sales technologist to help clients shape compelling technology solutions with cloud

The Person:

• Collaborative and client-focussed, you enjoy helping clients shape their technology needs and work constructively with peers and colleagues in multi-disciplinary sales pursuits
• You care about the teams around you and help them increase their skills around sales processes, especially where they may come from deep technology backgrounds
• Possess a minimum of 5 years’ experience managing large and complex clients
• Successful

This is KPMG Curve, our newest tech venture. And we’re doing things a little differently. Here to solve our clients’ biggest challenges and uncover even bigger opportunities, Curve is all about staying at the cutting edge of technology and swerving the mundane. 

As a fast-growing digital delivery service, we always stay ahead of the curve by keeping up with ever-evolving tech practices. Whether that’s unlocking the power of AI, coding for the future of the planet or everything in-between. In a world where tech is always changing, so are we.

What’s in it for you?

Progression at pace. Innovation, led by constant learning. Work that excites you with every twist and turn. It all starts at KPMG Curve. Here, you’ll progress your career as part of a connected team, while being encouraged to be your true, authentic self.

At Curve, we offer career paths that can accelerate top performers, without having to go into management. You can stay technically-focused and carry on improving in your favourite tech field. You won’t be responsible for any sales work, either.

Other benefits include a learning allowance (so you can control your own growth) and paid overtime – prioritising the things that matter most to you. We take our work-life balance seriously, and will make sure you get time back if you’ve been working on anything heavy. At the end of the day, your well-being is what matters most.