Accenture
Senior Manager - Programme Manager – Pensions Data Migration
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Role Title: Programme Manager – Pensions Data Migration
Location: Bath / London / UK regional offices, with flexibility and mobility required for client and partner delivery
Career Level: Level 6 – Senior Manager
Practice / Team: UK Insurance – Life, Pensions and Retail Investments (Programme Delivery)
About the team
Within Accenture, the UK Insurance team helps leading insurers, life companies, pension providers, wealth managers, and retail investment organisations shape and deliver major transformation. Altus Consulting was acquired by Accenture in 2025 to extend the capabilities within the UK Insurance team. We bring together Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Song and Operations to help clients modernise platforms, improve customer and adviser experience, strengthen operational resilience, and unlock value from data, AI, and cloud-enabled delivery.
Our clients come to us because we understand Financial Services and have “lived and breathed” the problems that they are facing. Not only that, we produce realistic and actionable advice through visual Consulting methods, which are rated highly by our clients and enable them to head towards success.
If you are passionate about Financial Services and delivering business or technology solutions that make a genuine difference, then Altus and the Programme Delivery team is the place for you – for most roles, you don’t even need to have prior Consulting experience. We provide an inclusive, positive, safe business for all of our team to work in. As part of the broader Accenture team, you’ll have access to industry-leading opportunities, genuine career advancement, and an opportunity to work in a collaborative and highly stimulating environment.
About the role
Accenture is seeking an experienced Programme Manager to join the UK Insurance Programme Delivery team at Level 6. This is a senior delivery role directing complex technology-enabled transformation programmes across our Life, Pensions, and Retail Investments client base, with a particular opportunity to apply data migration expertise within Pensions administration environments.
The successful candidate will combine strong programme direction experience with the governance, stakeholder, and delivery leadership capabilities required to run large, multi-workstream programmes to successful outcomes, acting as a trusted senior advisor to client leadership. Pensions administration and scheme migration experience will be a significant differentiator for this role.
In our team you will drive:
- Programme direction for major transformation programmes, including mobilisation, planning, governance, delivery execution, and benefits realisation
- Senior client relationships with Programme Sponsors, Heads of Change, and Operations Directors, acting as a trusted advisor on delivery risk and outcomes
- Integrated delivery across Accenture, client teams, and third-party suppliers, ensuring clear accountability and effective governance
- Multi-disciplinary delivery teams, creating the conditions for quality delivery and sustained performance
- Thought leadership on programme delivery best practice, including data migration approaches, cutover planning, and regulatory data integrity
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As a Programme Manager, you will:
- Own delivery of a complex, multi-workstream programme, ensuring alignment to client outcomes, quality standards, and commercial objectives
- Establish and lead programme governance, including steering groups, risk and issue management, dependency management, and escalation
- Manage programme budgets, resource plans, milestones, and delivery predictability
- Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders across business and technology functions
- Manage supplier and third-party delivery dependencies, including performance and issue resolution
- Translate strategic ambition into executable delivery plans and pragmatic governance
- Provide visible leadership during critical delivery events such as testing, data migration, cutover, and go-live
- Mentor and develop managers and delivery leads within the team
We are looking for experience in the following skills
- Proven experience directing data migration programmes, including migration strategy, cutover planning, dual-running, reconciliation, and data quality assurance
- Proven track record as a Programme Manager or Senior Delivery Lead on complex technology-enabled transformation programmes within Financial Services
- Demonstrable success managing programme budgets, delivery forecasts, change control, and senior-level reporting
- Strong stakeholder management experience, able to influence and advise senior client stakeholders
- Strong supplier management capability across technology partners and delivery centres
- Experience shaping governance across workstreams including data migration, testing, change management, and deployment
- Excellent communication, consulting, and problem-solving skills
Set yourself apart
Pensions sector experience (highly advantageous for this role):
- Direct experience of Pensions administration platforms, scheme migration, or regulatory-driven data programmes within a Pensions environment specifically
- Understanding of Pensions scheme administration, member data, and the regulatory considerations relevant to data migration in this sector
- Experience of legacy Pensions platform decommissioning, dual-running, and reconciliation
Also valuable:
- Broader Life & Pensions or Retail Investment platform migration experience
- Strong market relevance within UK Pensions or Retail Investment platform providers
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What's in it for you
At Accenture, in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days' vacation per year, private medical insurance, and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice.
You will join a collaborative and ambitious UK Insurance team with access to Accenture's global network of industry, technology, and delivery experts. This role offers the opportunity to lead major client transformations and deliver programmes that create lasting value for clients and their customers.
Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role, as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with clients, key suppliers, and other ecosystem partners to enable delivery of the first-class services Accenture is known for.
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments, and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth, and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data, and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise, and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions, and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X, and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners, and communities.
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