Programme Governance Manager
Posted 13 hours 23 minutes ago by Haleon
The Enterprise Transformation Programme is a multi-year journey focused on transforming Haleon's business to build an organisation that is wired for excellence. It will enable the 'Win as One' strategy and drive growth through continuous improvement, mainly through SAP S/4HANA. The Programme Governance Manager plays a critical role in turning this ambition a reality by ensuring the delivery of the programme's governance framework and unlocking value at pace.
Role Responsibilities- Operate and maintain the programme's governance framework, ensuring it is consistently applied across all workstreams, phases, and forums.
- Translate governance principles, roles, and decision rights into practical ways of working that teams follow.
- Keep governance artefacts, calendars, and cadence aligned as the programme scales and evolves.
- Maintain governance artefacts and documentation to a standard suitable for Independent Programme Assurance (IPA), Internal Audit or External Audit scrutiny.
- Manage the end to end governance cadence (e.g. SteerCo, programme leadership forums, readiness checkpoints) and ensure papers, pre reads and agendas are decision ready, proportionate and focused on material risks and choices.
- Track decisions, actions, and escalations ensuring follow through and closure.
- Partner with the Transformation Office portfolio team to support enterprise transformation governance requirements.
- Coordinate the agreed IPA assurance activity plan in line with programme phase and stage gate timing.
- Act as a trusted advisor to programme and workstream leaders, framing complex delivery, risk and assurance topics into clear decision narratives.
- Serve as the key day to day contact for Independent Programme Assurance, audit and risk functions, supporting evidence provision and tracking actions to closure.
- Communicate effectively, adapting messaging for different audiences to ensure clarity and engagement in the programme objectives.
- Engage effectively with a wide range of stakeholders with differing priorities and risk appetites.
- Support the embedding of a culture of transparency, early escalation, and decision discipline across programme workstreams.
- Use IPA insights and observations to identify governance inefficiencies or gaps and continuously uplift governance maturity as the programme scales.
- Work closely with workstream leads to uplift governance maturity, providing guidance and constructive challenge.
- Maintain a clear line of sight for Programme Leads to ensure no assurance actions "age out" without resolution.
- Partner with the Programme Governance Lead to determine which IPA findings require executive attention and which can be resolved within management control.
- Listen proactively to stakeholder feedback, identifying themes and refining governance ways of working to maintain relevance, efficiency, and buy in across programme phases.
- Strong, demonstrated capability in operating complex transformation programme governance frameworks ensuring consistency, discipline and relevance across workstreams and programme phases.
- Strong capability in orchestrating governance cadence, agendas, decisions, actions and follow through.
- Comfortable working with Independent Programme Assurance (IPA), audit and risk functions, and translating assurance insight into practical action.
- Demonstrated understanding of governance as an enabler of outcomes and proven ability to translate complex programme information into clear, decision-focused inputs for governance forums.
- Demonstrates confidence in constructively challenging poor escalation quality, understated risks or deferred decisions, while maintaining relationships.
- Strong influencing and communication skills across stakeholders, with ability to align differing priorities around a shared governance model.
- Communicates confidently, able to adapt style without losing precision or control.
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