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Programme Manager

  1. Permanent - Full time
£Competitive + Benefits
  1. Travis Perkins plc
  2. Northampton, Northamptonshire

hrs/pw

Full Time

Northampton

50602

Are you looking for your next challenge and want to be part of a team that is hard-working and driven to make a difference in our business? 


What will you do? Programme Manager


To provide comprehensive support to the CCF & Keyline BI Director and the CCF & Keyline Board in the management and successful delivery of priority projects. This includes identifying and driving business process improvements, applying effective project management practices, and ensuring clear, consistent communication across all stakeholders. The role involves preparing and delivering accurate, timely, and relevant reporting to inform decision-making, while actively engaging with project leads and wider teams to ensure solutions are both practical and impactful. By adding value throughout the process—through collaboration, insight, and proactive problem-solving—the position helps ensure that outcomes are relevant, sustainable, and aligned with strategic priorities.


Some accountabilities of the role: 


  • Aligned to the CCF and Keyline strategies, works cross-functionally with teams/boards across the BUs to identify key modernisation projects for both businesses, attending any relevant boards to support key initiatives, assisting with KPIs and providing insight to the SLT via a programme review or similar.

  • Producing project updates for the business to support the delivery and the reporting of progress to CCF & Keyline SLT/board.

  • With support from the wider BI team, provide subject matter expertise on behalf of CCF and Keyline as and when required to a range of Group lead projects, e.g. APEX, Sales Hub, etc

  • This should be done with a view to effectively communicating the BU's requirements, understanding complexity, mitigating risks, learning and sharing best practice within the BUs and across the Group.

  • Identify areas of improvement opportunity for colleagues, customers and suppliers by collaborating with appropriate stakeholders.  Displays creativity in terms of your approach to thinking about and identifying how we continually improve our business.

  • Measurables

  • Demonstrable on time, to scope, to budget, and project delivery

  • Continuous improvement pipeline

  • Established governance in place for all key projects

  • Defined and approved comms approach for all key projects


What you’ll need to have/be:


  • Prince2

  • Lean 6 Sigma (green belt) (Preferred) 


What’s in it for you?


Not Sure if you qualify? We’re driving to become a truly inclusive employer, where everyone in our Group feels safe, welcome and confident to be their authentic selves - you be you, it makes us, us, as we say. If you’re interested in this opportunity but your experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be just the right candidate for this or other roles with us.


You’ll be supported by some fantastic training and development and have the opportunity to learn, grow and develop across the Travis Perkins Group. 


We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the company:


  • Competitive bonus

  • Save-as-you-earn scheme

  • Buy-as-you-earn scheme

  • Contributory pension scheme

  • Colleague discount across a variety of Group businesses


A bit about us


As the largest distributor of building materials in the UK, Travis Perkins has been helping to build Britain for over 200 years.


With over 5 businesses, 16,000 colleagues and more than 1,200 branches, stores and sites around the UK, we believe we have the best people and the best place to work. Everyone works hard together to deliver results, but most importantly, has some fun along the way!


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