Senior Manager, Strategic Programs & Operations

- Support execution and governance across the CT Org's portfolio of innovation initiatives. - Ensure consistency and discipline across accountability across processes, cadences, and communication discipline.

- Support planning, allocation, and tracking of the dedicated CTO budget, ensuring every investment directly supports the delivery of innovation initiatives and organizational priorities. - Help maintain a clear, defensible line of sight from budget decisions to strategic outcomes.

- Act as an interface with enterprise stakeholders across the business to accelerate innovation delivery and remove organizational friction. - Help translate CT Org strategic priorities into operating plans, milestones, and governance routines that keep cross-functional teams aligned.

- Help continuously improve the operating rhythm of the CT Org: reporting, decision logs, risk registers, and executive communications.

- 7+ years of experience in strategy, business operations, program/portfolio management, or chief-of-staff-type roles, ideally supporting a technology, R&D, or innovation function. - Track record of driving governance and accountability across cross-functional, matrixed teams without direct reporting authority. - Strong executive presence and judgment: able to filter and reframe operational detail into concise, decision-ready insight for senior leadership. - Comfort operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous, startup-like environment nested inside a larger enterprise. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills; experience producing executive-level reporting and governance artifacts. - Experience in industrial technology, energy, manufacturing, or infrastructure sectors is a plus but not required for this operations-focused role.

Flexible benefits fund, emergency leave days, adoption leave, 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), pension, life cover, private medical insurance, parental leave, education assistance program.