Senior Programme Manager - Energy Sector

Synechron Inc.; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking a Senior Delivery Manager to oversee critical projects in the energy sector. The role focuses on ensuring effective delivery management while driving teams towards successful outcomes. Ideal candidates will have over 10 years of leadership experience and a strong ability to navigate regulated environments. This is a permanent or inside IR35 contract role offering competitive pay, predominantly remote work with some travel, and an inclusive workplace culture.

Benefits

Flexible workplace arrangements

Mentoring and development programmes

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in delivery leadership roles.
• Proven experience in highly regulated environments.
• Strong track record in delivering outcomes under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Identify delivery challenges and ensure timely resolution.
• Manage delivery of complex, multi-year initiatives.
• Build and lead high-performing delivery teams.
• Ensure compliance and integrity in delivery.

Skills

Delivery leadership

Problem-solving

Stakeholder management

Regulatory compliance

Data-driven decision making

Job description

Synechron is looking for a Senior Delivery Manager to work on Data and Salesforce programmes of work within the energy sector. The role is critical in ensuring end-to-end delivery, ensuring work is planned, governed, and delivered in a manner that supports the organisation’s responsibilities for energy system reliability, transformation, and regulatory compliance.

Role

• Identifying delivery challenges, driving clear ownership, and ensuring timely resolution
• Own delivery of large, complex, and often multi-year initiatives
• Manage upwards to senior stakeholders, including Executive and C‑Suite, providing clear options, recommendations, and delivery insight
• Build, lead, and sustain high‑performing delivery teams, including internal staff and suppliers
• Maintain a strong focus on outcomes and measurable success, using data to demonstrate progress and impact
• Balance delivery pace with operational, regulatory, and system risk
• Apply deep experience across the software lifecycle (build, deploy, run) to inform delivery decisions
• Ensure dependencies across technology, operations, policy, data, and external parties are identified, understood, and actively managed
• Proactively manage delivery risks, issues, and escalations
• Work closely with assurance, architecture, security, and regulatory stakeholders to ensure compliance and delivery integrity
• Define and manage stakeholders using structured approaches, including OKRs, metrics, and outcome‑based measures
• Act as a key interface between: technology and delivery teams, business and operational leaders, external vendors and delivery partners, senior executives and governance forums

Experience

• 10+ years experience in delivery leadership roles
• Proven experience working in a highly regulated, safety‑critical environments ensuring appropriate controls and governance are in place
• Strong delivery focus with a track record of problem‑solving and outcome delivery
• Experience managing delivery across multiple teams, suppliers, and partners
• Demonstrated ability to navigate complex organisations, influence senior stakeholders, and maintain delivery under pressure

This is a permanent or inside IR35 contract role - Strong market rates - Feb start date - Likely long term - Predominantly remote work with occasional travel required

Diversity Statement

Synechron are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We offer flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programmes to support our global workforce. Empowerment and collaboration are at the core of how we operate.

All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.