DP World
UK IT Programme Manager
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UK IT Programme Manager
DP World in the UK is at the heart of Britain’s trading future, providing world-class port infrastructure, smart logistics solutions, and the benefits of freeport status to our customers.
An exciting opportunity has arisen within our UK Information Technology 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 a portfolio 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 to design, deployment, and post-implementation stabilisation
- Ensuring submitted outcomes are operationally resilient, secure, and aligned with business priorities
This position, with the flexibility of reducing to either DP World London Gateway (Essex) or DP World Southampton, requires regular travel to both terminals for cross-site delivery, coordination, and assurance. The role is accountable for:
- Programme direction
- Dependency management
- Risk and issue control
- Stakeholder engagement
- Supplier performance
- Meeting agreed scope, cost, timeline, and quality expectations
Responsibilities
- Provide end-to-end leadership and governance for a UK IT programme portfolio to align initiatives across systems, applications, infrastructure, networking, cybersecurity, and service delivery with business objectives
- Set clear programme direction, priorities, and delivery structure while 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
- Benefits realisation
- Maintain robust governance artefacts, including:
- Integrated plans
- RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Depencies)
- Dependency maps
- Change controls
- Readiness assessments
- Cutover plans
- Coordinate delivery across IT teams, operations, engineering functions, and external suppliers to ensure cohesive progress in:
- Planning
- Testing
- Transition
- Implementation
- Ensure adherence to technical, security, and operational readiness standards and secure necessary approvals prior to go-live and handover
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Monitor programme performance against milestones, budgets, quality, and risk thresholds, intervening proactively to resolve blockers
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Lead programme-wide testing coordination, including:
- Functional
- UAT (User Acceptance Testing)
- Performance
- Resilience
- Integration testing
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Support secure-by-design delivery by collaborating with Architecture, Cyber Security, and Engineering teams to address risks, controls, and compliance requirements effectively
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Manage third-party vendors and delivery partners, ensuring accountability for outcomes and compliance to contracted or service obligations
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Provide regular, clear, and structured reporting to sponsors and senior leadership, including:
- Progress updates
- Risk highlights
- Dependencies
- Required decisions
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Build strong relationships across:
- UK terminals
- Regional IT teams
- Group IT
- To align program activities with wider organisational initiatives and standards
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Promote continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to optimize:
- Delivery approaches
- Infrastructure outcomes
- Operational readiness
Requirements
- Proven experience delivering large-scale, multi-disciplinary IT programmes within complex enterprise environments
- Strong background in:
- Systems
- Applications
- Development
- Infrastructure
- Networking
- Cyber security
- Service delivery
- Experience managing:
- Multiple teams
- Suppliers
- Interdependencies across parallel workstreams
- Experience in operational or service-led environments, ideally within:
- 24/7 industries such as ports, logistics, or critical infrastructure
- Broad technical understanding of:
- High availability
- Resilience
- Disaster recovery
- Integration
- Security
- Service transition
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Candidate should be capable of challenging and assuring design decisions.
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Demonstrate strong expertise in:
- Governance
- Planning
- Delivery discipline
- Managing programme artefacts
- Reporting
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High-level stakeholder engagement skills, capable of:
- Influencing decisions
- Facilitating at senior leadership level
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Familiarity with:
- Structured delivery frameworks
- Governance models such as: MSP, PRINCE2, PMP, Agile, or equivalents
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A collaborative mindset, focused on:
- Delivery
- Operational stability
- Risk management
- Achieving measurable business outcomes
Compensation
DP World offers exciting, forward-looking roles within a growing international organisation. Committed to professional growth and fostering an inclusive, collaborative work environment, DP World provides market-competitive compensation packages.
About DP World
Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, providing opportunities and improving the quality of life for individuals worldwide. DP World exists with this mission:
"To make the world’s trade flow better, changing what’s possible for customers and communities we serve globally."
- Global presence: 103,000 diverse employees across 75 countries
- Key operational areas:
- Ports & Terminals
- Marine Services
- Logistics
- Technology
Combining global infrastructure with local expertise, DP World strengthens:
- Supply chain solutions
- Integration through companies such as Syncreon, Imperial, and P&O
"WE MAKE TRADE FLOW TO CHANGE WHAT’S POSSIBLE FOR EVERYONE"
DP World believes in Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and values diversity as critical to their success. Hiring decisions are made based on experience, skills, and ability to bring their whole self to work.
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