Lead, Programme Management

Lead Programme Management

The Role

This is a lead role at the heart of Pearsons Government contract delivery programme. Youll bring together multiple workstreams and their teams to create one clear end-to-end view of delivery ensuring dependencies are understood risks are addressed early and everyone is working towards the same outcomes.

Youll combine deep delivery expertise with strong people skills helping colleagues work openly and transparently while constructively challenging plans timescales and assumptions. Youll also represent Pearson with the Standards and Testing Agency (STA) building confidence through clear credible and customer-focused communication.

Your early impact will be to establish strong programme rhythms connect activity across workstreams and give leaders a reliable view of readiness risk and progress across complex assessment delivery.

What Youll Own

End-to-end programme delivery

Create and maintain the integrated delivery view across the programme connecting workstream plans milestones and dependencies.

Translate strategic priorities and contractual commitments into clear executable delivery plans.

Use your experience and judgement to challenge assumptions identify emerging risks and drive timely action before delivery is affected.

Provide clear assurance risk management and performance reporting to senior governance forums.

Operational and assessment readiness

Bring together Marking Operations and Customer Support so they operate as one coordinated assessment-delivery service.

Lead readiness capacity and contingency planning across assessment cycles with particular focus on peak delivery periods.

Coordinate incident response service recovery and lessons learned turning insight into measurable improvements.

Strengthen operational controls scalability service resilience and continuous improvement across the programme.

People partnership and client confidence

Create an environment where workstream leads and teams collaborate openly share information early and remain accountable for shared outcomes.

Motivate and influence multidisciplinary teams navigating competing priorities and holding constructive conversations when plans need to change.

Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders suppliers and the STA communicating progress risks and decisions with clarity.

Keep the needs of schools educators and learners at the centre of operational decisions and customer communications.

About You

Youre an experienced delivery professional who is comfortable operating across complex multi-workstream programmes at scale. You combine strong organisation and attention to detail with the confidence to bring people together ask the right questions and make clear decisions in high-pressure situations.

Proven experience leading large-scale operational programme or service delivery in a complex multifaceted environment.

A strong track record of integrating plans managing dependencies and using risk issue and readiness management to protect delivery.

Excellent stakeholder-management influencing and client-facing skills with the credibility to engage senior leaders and external partners.

A data-led approach to performance governance and continuous improvement.

Strong people skills and the ability to motivate teams encourage transparency and navigate challenging conversations.

The ability to remain calm decisive and customer-focused when priorities shift or issues emerge.

It would be helpful but not essential if you also bring:

Experience working with nationally significant services or programmes involving multiple delivery partners.

What Youll Get

Youll have the opportunity to shape and influence how a nationally significant assessment programme is delivered. Your work will connect teams that support schools educators and learners across the UK giving you the scope to improve delivery at scale and create lasting practical change.

Youll join a collaborative environment where you can strengthen client partnerships and help build more resilient and effective services.

Your rewards & benefits

We know youll do great work so we give a lot back with some of the best benefits in the business. One size doesnt fit all so our workplace programmes are designed to meet the different needs of our diverse teams and their families too.

Please see our attractive UK benefits here:Pearson Jobs Benefits

Ready to Make an Impact

Apply now and help lead joined-up resilient assessment delivery that supports educators schools and learners across the UK.

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