Programme Manager (M&A)

Location: UK - Birmingham, UK - Hatfield, UK - London, UK - Manchester, UK - Milton Keynes, UK - Reading | Job-ID: 217785 | Contract type: Standard | Business Unit: Project Management

Life on the team

Are you an experienced programme leader with a passion for delivering complex, large scale change within Mergers and Acquisitions? Do you thrive in a customer centric environment where strategic thinking, leadership, and innovation drive real business impact? If so, we’d love to hear from you.

At Computacenter, our Programme Managers play a pivotal role in helping our customers achieve their business and technology ambitions. You will take end to end accountability on technology integrations — ensuring governance, structure, innovation, and excellence across the Programme.

What you’ll do

Programme & Portfolio Leadership:

• Lead the definition and delivery of large, complex Merger and Acquisition programmes.
• Design programmes that align with organisational strategy, setting clear objectives, scope, and success criteria.
• Oversee multiple delivery teams, ensuring consistent project controls and high quality execution.
• Manage interdependencies across programmes 
• Drive continuous improvement through regular reviews, lessons learned, and development of new tools and methodologies.
• Support customers in building strong business cases that demonstrate ROI.
• Define and achieve KPIs that support customer and organisational growth.
• Deliver advisory services, including formal capability and maturity assessments.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with external and internal stakeholders at all level (including C-Suite)

Financial & Commercial Management:

• Oversee budgeting, forecasting, and financial performance for programmes and portfolios.
• Manage commercial baselines, statements of work, and contract changes.
• Ensure proactive cost management and revenue forecasting.

Governance & Compliance:

• Develop and maintain governance structures aligned to Computacenter and customer standards.
• Ensure compliance with project, programme, and portfolio management methods.
• Lead assurance activities for all projects within the portfolio.

Team Leadership:

• Coach, mentor, and develop team members to build capability across the function.
• Lead cross functional and culturally diverse teams in alignment with Computacenter’s values.
• Source and shape the right delivery team to meet programme objectives.
• Manage relationships with external partners to ensure aligned delivery outcomes.

Sales Support & Growth:

• Help shape our M&A capability of the future
• Identify and nurture new business opportunities.
• Provide thought leadership to customers and support sales engagements.
• Shape solutions and proposals during presales activities.
• Present methods, solutions, and proposals to customers with confidence

Risk, Opportunity & Change Management:

• Ensure robust change management processes across all programme and portfolio activity.
• Aggregate and manage risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Proactively identify and manage opportunities for improvement and value creation.

What you’ll bring

• Formal certification in Waterfall or Agile Programme Management (or equivalent) 
• Excellent experience within Mergers and Acquisition programmes.
• Proven success in leading large, complex, multi stakeholder initiatives.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with strong commercial and sales awareness.
• Strategic thinker with strong decision making and data driven insight.
• Competent with programme/portfolio tools such as MS Project, JIRA, or ServiceNow SPM.
• Ability to articulate technology propositions clearly and confidently.

About us

We are a leading independent technology and services provider, trusted by large corporate and public sector organisations. We are a responsible business that believes in winning together for our people and our planet. We help our customers to source, transform and manage their technology infrastructure to deliver digital transformation, enabling people and their business.

Our business may be about technology, but first of all it’s about people

With over 20,000 people across 22 countries, we are proud of our inclusive culture - where everyone can thrive, feel valued, and truly belong.

As an equal opportunities employer, we’re committed to ensuring fair and equal access to opportunities for all. Your application will be considered on its merits, regardless of your age, disability, ethnicity, gender identity, or any other characteristics protected by law. What matters most to us is that you share our vision and values, and bring the experience and skills we’re looking for.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We welcome applications from disabled people and accept applications in alternative formats. We also guarantee to interview applicants who have a disability.

If you share our values and want to make a meaningful impact in a supportive, forward-thinking environment - we’d love to hear from you!