Programme Manager

Join Ofgem at the forefront of one of the UK’s most transformative energy initiatives, the Warm Homes Plan. As a Programme Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of greener, warmer, and more affordable homes across the country. This is a unique opportunity to lead a high-impact, multi-disciplinary programme team, driving delivery across a complex landscape of workstreams and partnerships with DESNZ. You’ll be the strategic anchor for programme governance, risk management, and stakeholder engagement, ensuring that every milestone is met with precision and purpose. From establishing robust programme controls to ensuring business readiness for change, you’ll be instrumental in delivering meaningful benefits to customers and communities. If you thrive in dynamic environments, excel at inclusive leadership, and are passionate about making a tangible difference in the energy sector, this role offers the chance to do just that, while working at the heart of Ofgem’s mission to build a fairer, more sustainable energy future.

Ofgem has a culture of inclusion that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our colleagues. It fuels our innovation and helps ensure we can best represent the consumers and the communities we serve. Everyone is welcome – as an inclusive workplace, our employees are comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work.

As part of government’s ambitious Warm Homes Plan, Ofgem is supporting DESNZ to explore options to deliver warmer, greener home that are more affordable to heat. As this gathers momentum, we need to manage a number of related workstreams and initiatives supporting this work in Ofgem.

The Programme Manager will:

• Provide programme management leadership to the multi-disciplinary programme team, ensuring they have clear direction, are achieving objectives, and are supported to overcome challenges;
• Advise SRO, senior leaders and programme governance on programme risks, resourcing, prioritisation, and the critical path for decisions and outputs;
• Demonstrate exceptional inclusive people leadership, ongoing professional development and commitment to Ofgem values.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and manage a high performing programme team;
• Cascade the vision and translate into delivery objectives for the team;
• Input, and co-ordinate input of project leads and SMEs into business case as required;
• Set up, implement and maintain effective programme controls, governance and assurance frameworks ;
• Manage risks and issues; ensure mitigations are in place.
• Identify and manage dependencies between the various elements of the programme.
• Lead the programme to deliver the agreed outcomes within time, cost and quality constraints;
• Identify and manage stakeholder relationships and highlight need for senior level support. Manage internal and external relationships as appropriate;
• Ensure realisation of benefits for customers
• Ensure business readiness for change;
• Put in place a framework for the monitoring of and reporting on programme performance, working with Delivery & Scheme PMO