London Business School
Programme Manager, EMBA
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The Role
Join our Executive MBA team as a Programme Manager. You’ll play a key role in the day-to-day running and management of the EMBA programme and own the relationship for your own stream of EMBA students, ensuring they have an excellent experience over their two years at LBS. Your support will ensure students can learn, guarantee our reputation is secure, and endow the businesses and entrepreneurs of tomorrow.
Secondment opportunity starting immediately - 31st August 2027
Main Responsibilities
- Delivery of high-quality learning programmes, events, and resources.
- Projects delivered on time, on budget, and to quality standards and targets.
- Manage and support the direct reports, review their progress, and promote learning opportunities available to them.
- Area/team compliance with necessary regulations/processes.
- Timely and robust coordination of all internal and external resources.
- Production of high-quality reports, with the identification of trends and issues.
- Development of relationships within and outside the team, and positive feedback from all stakeholders.
- Up-to-date and accurate financial information for own service area.
Who We Are Looking For
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to deliver difficult messages with firmness and empathy.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement skills with experience of managing a large range of different stakeholders.
- Experience of using software related to own team or department to extract, analyse, and report on data.
- Sound understanding of the wider School’s offerings and those of competitors.
- Sound project management skills.
- Excellent organisational skills and meticulous attention to detail.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
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Benefits You Can Enjoy
- Generous annual leave of 27 days plus extra days between Christmas and New Year.
- USS pension, 14.5% employer contribution (in return for employee enrolment and contribution).
- Free onsite gym and swimming pool.
- Amazing range of professional development to support your career path.
- Enhanced cycle to work scheme.
- Wellbeing offering to support your physical, mental, and financial health.
At London Business School, we support Smart Working - a hybrid approach designed to help you achieve a healthy work-life balance while delivering the best outcomes for your role and the needs of our customers. All roles require a minimum of two days on campus each week to foster a vibrant, collaborative community.
For this role specifically, you will be expected to be on campus 3 days per week.
We operate with ‘core hours’ – 10:00-15:00 – to maximise opportunities for connection and collaboration across teams during the working day. Outside of these hours, you may still be required for meetings or collaboration based on your role and customer needs. Additionally, we offer Protected Time - a flexible, one-hour slot, within the working week dedicated to your learning and development, wellbeing, or focused, quiet work.
Why London Business School?
London Business School; a global and vibrant business community based in three of the world’s most dynamic cities, London, Dubai, and Riyadh. It’s where extraordinary minds and diverse perspectives connect, to have a profound impact on the way the world does business and the way business impacts the world. We offer best in class hybrid learning to our students and participants, whilst creating a flexible, supportive, and dynamic working environment for our people to excel in, whatever their location.
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Our commitment to driving inclusion and belonging We are a globally reaching institution, committed to creating tangible and sustainable change in driving inclusion & belonging within our School, education, and society at large. We are dedicated to creating an environment where everyone in our community feels they belong and thrive. This is a key school priority, and we want everyone who joins LBS to feel respected, welcomed, and heard.
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Competitive Salary dependent upon experience
Closing date: 21st September 2026
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