Implementation Programme Manager

About Albany Beck

Albany Beck is a specialist Financial Services Consultancy helping institutions deliver complex change and transformation while building the internal capability to sustain it. We combine subject matter expertise with innovative delivery models that help clients scale efficiently, while offering meaningful, long-term career opportunities to our people. At Albany Beck, you’ll be choosing to work with an organisation that’s passionate about your learning journey and committed to your professional and personal development.

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced, director-level Implementation Programme Manager to lead and coordinate the delivery of the CBOR (Custody Book of Record) programme across multiple business groups. This individual will be accountable for translating strategic objectives into a clear, integrated and achievable implementation plan, ensuring that responsibilities, dependencies, milestones and delivery timelines are established, understood and actively managed across the organisation.

The successful candidate will combine strong programme leadership with a pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset, potentially drawing on a background in Agile, Scrum or complex business and technology transformation. They will be comfortable operating at executive level, challenging senior stakeholders constructively, resolving competing priorities and navigating organisational complexity to maintain momentum and drive outcomes.

This is a high-impact leadership role requiring someone with the authority, judgement and interpersonal credibility to influence senior decision-makers, drive accountability across functional boundaries and turn strategic objectives into tangible delivery.

Key Responsibilities

1. Programme Leadership and Delivery

• Take overall responsibility for coordinating and driving the end-to-end implementation of CBOR across relevant business groups.
• Translate programme objectives into a clear, integrated delivery roadmap, with realistic milestones, timelines and measurable outcomes.
• Establish effective programme governance, including decision-making forums, escalation routes, reporting mechanisms and accountability.
• Ensure delivery plans reflect actual business capacity, operational constraints and organisational readiness.
• Maintain a clear view of programme progress, proactively identifying slippage, delivery risks and opportunities to accelerate implementation.

2. Cross-Functional Coordination and Accountability

• Bring together business, technology, operations, risk, compliance and other relevant teams to ensure coordinated execution.
• Define clear ownership and accountability across workstreams, establishing who is responsible for each deliverable, decision and dependency.
• Identify and actively manage interdependencies between business groups, ensuring that delays or competing priorities in one area do not undermine wider programme delivery.
• Resolve gaps in ownership, duplicated effort and conflicting delivery plans.
• Drive alignment on priorities, resource commitments and sequencing across all participating teams.

3. Senior Stakeholder Management and Influence

• Operate confidently at director and executive level, engaging senior stakeholders with credibility and authority.
• Challenge assumptions, unrealistic commitments and conflicting priorities constructively, using evidence and sound judgement to drive better decisions.
• Navigate complex organisational dynamics and competing agendas while maintaining focus on programme outcomes.
• Build consensus where possible, but escalate decisively when alignment cannot be achieved or delivery is at risk.
• Hold senior stakeholders accountable for commitments, decisions and actions while maintaining productive working relationships.
• Communicate difficult messages clearly, confidently and diplomatically, particularly where delivery expectations need to be reset.

4. Delivery Methodology and Execution

• Apply appropriate programme and delivery management disciplines, drawing on Agile, Scrum, traditional programme management or hybrid approaches as required.
• Establish effective delivery rhythms, including planning sessions, workstream reviews, dependency management, progress tracking and executive checkpoints.
• Ensure teams have clear priorities, defined deliverables and a shared understanding of what successful implementation looks like.
• Remove blockers, accelerate decision-m…