Operating Model Transformation Programme Manager - Data & Technology function

Contract: 12 months
FTC: £85,000-£95,000
Location: Hybrid

Altum Consulting are supporting a leading not-for-profit organisation who are undergoing a major digital transformation with data and technology playing a key role in how it delivers greater impact in the future.

This is a brilliant opportunity for an experienced Programme Manager to play a key role in bringing structure, pace, and delivery focus to a complex operating model transformation.

The role will lead the delivery of a programme spanning operating model design, organisational capability, ways of working, governance, change and communications. The successful candidate will work closely with senior leaders, internal teams and external organisation design consultants to help shape, plan and deliver the future model. You will not be doing the operating model / organisation design work yourself

Key responsibilities include:

• Programme manage a business-critical operating model transformation of the organisation's data and technology function.
• Support the review of the current operating model, organisational structure, ways of working, capability gaps and future skills requirements.
• Support the external consultants to deliver the organisation's three-year plan into a practical operating model roadmap, including transition states and delivery milestones.
• Bring together multiple workstreams into one clear programme plan, managing dependencies, risks, decisions, and key milestones.
• Manage external consultants and ensure activity remains focused, aligned and delivered at pace.
• Orchestrate workshops, stakeholder engagements, and programme governance across the organisation.
• Design and execute change and communications strategy and approach to support engagement, adoption and readiness.
• Ensure Steering Committee meetings run effectively, with clear reporting, actions, decisions, and escalation routes.
• Act as a hands-on delivery lead, bringing clarity and structure to an evolving programme.

Required experience:

• Expertise in programme managing operating model transformation programmes for the data and technology function
• Excellent understanding of data and technology landscapes, with the ability to confidently programme manage across both business and technical workstreams.
• Experience working alongside external consultants to deliver future-state operating model design, transition planning and implementation.
• Strong delivery discipline across programme plans, RAID, governance, SteerCo reporting, milestones and dependencies.
• Experience working with external consultants and keeping outputs practical, aligned and delivery-focused.
• Strong stakeholder management skills across senior leaders, functional teams and operational stakeholders.
• Experience designing and delivering change, communications and engagement activity across complex organisations.