Programme Manager

Job Description:

ABOUT US:
LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a commitment to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It's how we've contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years.
Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services - and our open-access model - we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.
LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific. LSEG's ticker symbol is LSEG.
OUR PEOPLE:
People are at the heart of what we do and drive the success of our business. Our culture of connecting, creating opportunity and delivering excellence shape how we think, how we do things and how we help our people fulfil their potential.
We embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. We break down barriers and encourage teamwork, enabling innovation and rapid development of solutions that make a difference. Our workplace generates an enriching and rewarding experience for our people and customers alike. Our vision is to build an inclusive culture in which everyone feels encouraged to fulfil their potential.
We know that real personal growth cannot be achieved by simply climbing a career ladder - which is why we encourage and enable a wealth of avenues and interesting opportunities for everyone to broaden and deepen their skills and expertise.
As a global organisation spanning 70 countries and one rooted in a culture of growth, opportunity, diversity and innovation, LSEG is a place where everyone can grow, develop and fulfil your potential with meaningful careers.
LSEG RISK INTELLIGENCE
LSEG Risk Intelligence offer a suite of datasets, products, and services to enable regulated businesses and corporate organisations to manage their know your customer (KYC) & anti-money laundering (AML) compliance, empower digital customer on-boarding, conduct third party risk due diligence, and detect fraud.
LSEG Risk Intelligence is the global leader in financial crime & fraud risk management data & analytics. Enabling our customers and partners to deliver sustainable growth, by providing a seamless experience to their customers, whilst helping them to meet their regulatory obligations and manage risk effectively.
The LSEG Risk Intelligence mission is to combine our expertise in Digital identity, Financial Crime Screening & Third-Party Risk to deliver market leading solutions to our customers and partners and generate £1bn in annual revenues by ​year end 2027.
ROLE PROFILE
We are seeking an experienced Programme Manager with 16 to 18 yrs of experience to lead critical initiatives across strategic commercial delivery. You will be accountable for end-to-end programme management for strategic commercial initiatives, spanning business change, technology, AI and agentic systems, data governance, supplier management, and legal. You will drive the strategic direction, integrated planning, and delivery of major product, technical, and organisational change programmes-from inception through market launch-ensuring alignment across interdependent workstreams and the creation of clear critical paths. A core responsibility is the continual refinement of programme delivery practices to improve agility, speed, and execution quality. A key part of this role is to support and guide Product & Proposition leads through the RI defined PLM cycle, increasing the overall speed and quality of delivery.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES
* Provides overall programme leadership, guidance and technical expertise to lead all aspects of a programme from the initial 'inception phase' through requirements analysis, business case creation, planning to execution.
* Holds ultimate accountability for delivery, managing programmes with great complexity, impact, risk, budget variances and change requests.
* Monitors overall progress of the programme, with particular focus on budgets, key milestones, resources, and dependencies.
* Aligns programmes to the strategic delivery, portfolio and transformation direction, ensuring prioritisation of key projects and devising new ideas and initiatives to support the organisation.
* Creates Integrated delivery plans across dependent programmes -dependency mapping, requirement reconciliation and creating critical paths.
* Responsible for mapping out change process for primary user community over time - indicating how the deliveries change how the user community operates.
* Responsible for defining, and constant refinement, of the best practises of programme delivery to increase the agility, speed and quality of execution.
* Responsible for defining and ongoing refinement of the approach, process and artefacts that support the adoption of 'best practises' in Programme Management.
* Produces reports for senior management, and collaborators (Product, user community, LSEG PMO and Finance) on the progress of the programme against objectives and plans, highlighting any improvement areas and the requirements to correct them.
* Promotes and fosters collaboration across broad categories of partners, providing leadership in cross-functional meetings and representing the seniority of the programme or senior partners in governance boards and committees.
* Collaborates with the Head of Technology, Product and Content ops to ensure the programme achieves objectives and aligns with business priorities.
* Leads, coaches, and mentors programme and project managers within the programme, setting performance and delivery expectations to yield consistent results, whilst highlighting and promoting successful practices across the organisation.
* Ensures all projects adhere to LSEG Group Standards for project methodology, governance and risk management.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
* Critical thinking - Develops a broad, big-picture view of the organisation and its mission to innovate through analysis of issues and trends and how these link to responsibilities, capabilities and potential of the organisation.
* Critical Thinking - Analyses and evaluates facts, data and information to form a judgement.
* Outcome focussed - drives programmes to focus on delivery of common outcomes across teams.
* Dependency Mapping - Able to identify key dependencies between ongoing work and ability to create visual dependency mapping - for milestones and process.
* Commercial competence - Possesses broad knowledge of how businesses work; deep persona and customer knowledge; knows customer workflows, contacts and how they integrate into processes; applying understanding to specific business use cases across product offerings.
* Technical competence - Understands / has experience of technical delivery (preferable within a data engineering context) in terms of cadence, terminology, delivery cycle, agile, AI and Agentic.
* Customer focus - Demonstrating a customer-centric approach to explore business challenges, developing tailored solutions and providing trusted advice.
* Decision making - Takes a data led approach to assessing and solving challenges leading to the selection of ideas to reach the best outcome in the shortest amount of time.
* Communication - Communicates with clarity and precision, communicating complex information in a concise format that is audience appropriate.
* Stakeholder management - Builds positive relationships with internal and external collaborators to understand their drivers and negotiates positive outcomes.

Career Stage:
Manager

Compensation Information:
LSEG is committed to offering competitive Compensation and Benefits. The anticipated annual gross base salary for this position is between 207,800 zł - 328,600 zł. Please be aware base salary ranges may vary by geographic location. In addition to our offered base salary, this role is eligible for our Annual Bonus Plan ("bonus plan"). Target Bonus % will be commensurate with role level and posted career stage. Individual salary will be reflective of job-related knowledge, skills and equivalent experience.

Benefits Information:

LSEG roles (excluding internships) are typically eligible for inclusion in our LSEG Benefits program. To view the benefits available for the role you're applying for, please click here. This document provides a list of benefits by country. Simply click on the country where the role is based to view the relevant details. If you have specific questions or would like further details, these can be discussed during your interview.

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Information:

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

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Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce.

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