Contract Programme Manager - Business Transformation

Location: London
Contract: 6 months initially
Day Rate: Up to £600 per day
IR35 Status: Outside IR35

I'm supporting a well-established organisation operating within the media and entertainment sector to appoint an experienced Programme Manager for a significant business transformation initiative.

This is a hands-on contract opportunity for a delivery-focused professional who can bring structure to complex change, coordinate multiple stakeholders and ensure business priorities translate into practical outcomes.

Working across a varied range of business functions, you'll play a key role in maintaining delivery momentum, improving ways of working and ensuring teams are prepared for important programme milestones.

• Transformation Delivery: Coordinate activities across multiple workstreams, maintaining clear priorities, realistic milestones and visibility of progress.

• Process Improvement: Review existing ways of working, identify opportunities for improvement and help develop effective processes that support changing business requirements.

• Stakeholder Engagement: Organise and facilitate workshops, bring the right people together to resolve challenges and ensure agreed actions are progressed.

• Planning & Dependencies: Maintain delivery plans, monitor interdependencies and highlight potential obstacles before they affect programme outcomes.

• Governance & Reporting: Maintain effective programme controls, track risks and issues, document key decisions and prepare concise updates for senior stakeholders.

• Business Readiness: Help teams prepare for change by ensuring responsibilities, procedures and supporting materials are established ahead of key milestones.

• Cross-Functional Coordination: Build effective working relationships across commercial, operational and technical teams, ensuring priorities remain aligned and decisions are made at the appropriate level.

• Transition & Implementation: Support the practical implementation of agreed changes and ensure new ways of working can be sustained beyond the initial delivery phase.

You'll be an experienced Programme Manager with a strong background in delivering complex business change across multiple functions.

You'll bring:

• Proven experience delivering transformation programmes or complex operational change.

• Strong planning, coordination and programme control skills.

• The ability to break down complex requirements into clear, manageable delivery activities.

• Experience facilitating workshops and working with stakeholders across different business disciplines.

• Confidence identifying risks, challenging assumptions and driving decisions through to resolution.

• A practical, hands-on approach, with a strong focus on delivery rather than governance alone.

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to bring clarity to complex situations.

Experience within broadcasting, television, media production, entertainment or other content-led businesses would be advantageous. Candidates from other complex, multi-stakeholder environments with strong transformation delivery experience will also be considered.

This is an opportunity to contribute to a significant transformation programme within an established media organisation, working with a broad range of stakeholders to help deliver meaningful operational change.

The successful candidate will be comfortable operating in a complex environment, navigating ambiguity and ensuring that plans translate into tangible results.

• Six-month initial engagement

• Up to £600 per day

• Outside IR35

• London-based

If you're an experienced Programme Manager looking for your next contract and enjoy bringing structure and momentum to complex change, we'd welcome a confidential conversation.