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UK IT Programme Manager
UK IT Programme Manager
At the heart of Britain’s trading future, DP World provides world-class port infrastructure, smart logistics solutions, and the benefits of freeport status to its customers.
An exciting opportunity has arisen within our UK Information Technology (IT) team for a UK IT Programme Manager. This is a senior, business-critical role with responsibility for the end-to-end oversight, coordination, and governance of complex, multi-disciplinary IT programmes that support DP World’s terminal operations and strategic objectives.
About the Role
The UK IT Programme Manager plays a pivotal role in driving the successful delivery of interdependent initiatives spanning systems, applications, development, infrastructure, networks, service delivery, operational technology, and cyber security. The role involves:
- Providing structure, governance, and leadership from early discovery and planning through design, delivery, deployment, and post-implementation stabilisation.
- Ensuring that outcomes are operationally resilient, secure, and aligned with business priorities.
- Accountability for programme direction, dependency management, risk and issue control, stakeholder engagement, and supplier performance.
Location: The role may be based either at DP World London Gateway (Essex) or DP World Southampton. Regular travel between both terminals is required to support cross-site delivery, coordination, and assurance.
Key Responsibilities
** programme Leadership and Governance**
- Provide end-to-end leadership and governance for a UK IT programme portfolio, ensuring initiatives align with business objectives.
- Set clear programme direction, priorities, and delivery structure, managing interdependencies, risks, issues, and change across multiple workstreams.
- Oversee the full programme lifecycle, including discovery, requirements definition, planning, design and architecture approvals, delivery, testing, deployment, and benefits realisation.
Governance and Risk Management
- Maintain robust programme governance artefacts, such as:
- Integrated plans
- RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies)
- Dependency maps
- Change controls
- Readiness assessments
- Cutover plans
- Monitor programme performance against milestones, budgets, quality, and risk thresholds, intervening early to resolve blockers and maintain momentum.
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Stakeholder and Supplier Management
- Coordinate delivery across IT teams, operations, engineering functions, and external suppliers to ensure cohesive planning, testing, transition, and implementation.
- Lead supplier and vendor management, ensuring accountability for outcomes and adherence to contractual and service obligations.
Security and Operational Readiness
- Ensure secure-by-design delivery by collaborating with Architecture, Cyber Security, and Engineering teams.
- Secure approvals prior to go-live and handover to business-as-usual (BAU) operations.
- Promote continuous improvement through optimisation of delivery approaches, infrastructure, and operational readiness.
Programme Reporting and Collaboration
- Provide regular, clear, and structured reporting to sponsors and senior leadership, highlighting progress, risks, dependencies, and decisions required.
- Build strong relationships with UK terminals, regional IT teams, and Group IT to ensure alignment with wider organisational initiatives and standards.
Key Deliverables
- Establish and enforce governance standards across IT programmes.
- Reduce project risk through dependency management and timely mitigation strategies.
- Ensure successful delivery of IT initiatives while maintaining cost discipline, schedule adherence, and business alignment.
- Strengthen cyber resilience and operational security across IT infrastructure.
- Optimise operational readiness post-deployment.
What You Will Bring
To excel in this role, you will have:
Essential Experience
- Proven experience delivering large-scale, multi-disciplinary IT programmes in complex enterprise environments.
- Strong background overseeing initiatives across systems, applications, development, infrastructure, networking, cyber security, and service delivery.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple teams, suppliers, and interdependencies across parallel workstreams.
- Experience operating in operational or service-led environments (e.g., 24/7 industries such as ports, logistics, or critical infrastructure).
- A broad technical understanding of:
- High availability and resilience
- Disaster recovery
- Integration, security, and service transition
- Ability to challenge and assure design decisions.
- Strong governance, planning, and delivery discipline, including structured delivery frameworks (e.g., MSP, PRINCE2, PMP, Agile).
- Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, including ability to influence and facilitate decisions at senior leadership level.
- A collaborative, delivery-minded approach with a strong emphasis on:
- Operational stability
- Risk management
- Measurable business outcomes
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Compensation and Benefits
DP World offers exciting and challenging roles within a growing international organisation. We aim to hire and develop the right people, supporting professional growth within an inclusive and collaborative working environment. The role offers a market-competitive compensation package.
About DP World
Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, creating opportunities and improving the quality of life worldwide. DP World exists with a simple mission:
To make the world’s trade flow better, changing what’s possible for the customers and communities they serve.
- Workforce: DP World employs over 103,000 people across 75 countries.
- Operations: spans Ports and Terminals, Marine Services, Logistics, and Technology.
- Values: Combines global infrastructure with deep local expertise, delivering integrated end-to-end supply chain solutions.
DP World’s family includes Syncreon, Imperial, and P&O, continuing to redefine global trade through innovation and automation.
Our Commitment
DP World is committed to the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO). We believe diversity and inclusion are central to our success, recruiting based on experience, skills, and authenticity. We welcome employees to bring their whole selves to work.
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