Programme Manager – Castle Donington

Mediq UK are a supplier of healthcare consumables, healthcare equipment, cleaning, and hygiene products, as well as healthcare devices to hospitals, care homes, and other facilities serving the healthcare sector in the UK.

Mediq are an International healthcare company with leading market positions in 13 countries. Our global head office is located just outside Utrecht, the Netherlands. We have more than 2,500 employees and we are committed to improve healthcare outcomes and the affordability of care.

The Programme Manager is responsible for the successful planning, governance, and delivery of complex, cross-functional programmes that support the organisation’s strategic objectives.

This role focuses on establishing robust programme structures, aligning stakeholders, managing interdependencies, and ensuring that initiatives are delivered on time, within scope, and realise intended business benefits. The Programme Manager provides oversight and direction across multiple projects, ensuring consistency, control, and effective execution.

Focusing on programme ownership, governance, and alignment - ensuring delivery is coordinated, risks are managed, and outcomes are realised - rather than hands-on project delivery, with functional owners owning the delivery of the initiative, you will act as the connective layer across business, technology, and functional teams to ensure strategic programmes deliver measurable commercial and operational value.

Salary - £70,000

Responsibilities:

• Programme Leadership & Governance – hands on end-to-end structure ownership, managing communication and engagement with key stakeholders
• Own the end-to-end governance of multiple strategic programmes (ERP, M&A integrations, data, transformation)
• Establish and maintain programme structures, including:

o Steering committees

o Governance forums

o Decision-making frameworks

• Ensure clear accountability across all workstreams without directly delivering project outputs
• Provide high-quality reporting to SLT, including progress, risks, and value realisation
• Define and maintain the overall programme structure, including governance frameworks, reporting cadence, and decision-making processes
• Develop and manage integrated programme plans, ensuring alignment across multiple workstreams and projects
• Time visibility to enable decision making – simple tool kit development to align project management mapping and dependencies
• Coordinate activities across project teams, ensuring effective management of resource, dependencies, risks, and issues
• Monitor programme progress, performance, and delivery against agreed milestones, taking corrective action where required
• Provide regular, high-quality reporting and insights to senior stakeholders, including programme status, risks, and outcomes
• Facilitate stakeholder engagement and ensure clear communication across all levels of the organisation
• Ensure appropriate resource alignment and prioritisation across programme activities
• Establish and maintain programme controls, including risk, issue, and change management processes
• Drive consistency in delivery standards, methodologies, and documentation across projects
• Track and support the realisation of programme benefits, ensuring alignment to business objectives
• Act as the escalation point for programme-level challenges and support resolution in a timely manner

What are we looking for?

We are looking for someone with proven experience delivering complex programmes spanning multiple projects and stakeholders.

• Strong understanding of programme and project management methodologies
• Demonstrated ability to manage risks, dependencies, and competing priorities
• Experience working with senior stakeholders and influencing decision-making
• Excellent organisational, planning, and coordination skills
• Strong communication and stakeholder management capability
• Understanding complex and competing priorities to ensure pace, momentum and decision making
• Experience in large-scale transformation or change programmes
• Familiarity with structured methodologies (e.g., MSP, PRINCE2, PMP)
• Experience working in matrixed or multi-entity environments

Benefits

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• 4x Life Assurance
• Pension scheme
• Sick Pay
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme

Please note that this job description is not exhaustive and additional duties may be assigned as needed.