The Role

At Unite Students our aim is to create a Home for Success for our students, using technology and data to empower them to find their home and have a great stay with us, and a great experience throughout their student life.

The Programme Manager is accountable for the day-to-day management of the Property Management Programme, ensuring solutions are fully integrated and embedded in the business and benefits are successfully realised. They will lead the programme as a true Business transformation, rather than a Technology transformation, ensuring the programme is delivered to agreed budgets, business outcomes and benefits are realised.

The successful candidate will be a strong commercially focused leader with attention to detail, a drive for quality and have the ability and skills to build excellent collaborative working relationships. They will have a strong internal and external customer focus along with excellent numerical and organisational skills.

What You`ll Be Doing

• Accountable for the delivery of the programme and day to day management.
• Support in raising the bar on how we deliver the programme and changing the mindsets and behaviours to enable that.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and implement best practices and lessons learned from completed projects across the organisation.
• Promote a culture that motivates and inspires excellent collective and individual performance within the programme to realise the identified benefits.
• Engage with all key stakeholders, leading the culture shift from a Technology transformation to a Business transformation
• With support of PMO, ensure the programme is governed effectively, aligning to the Unite Students Change Framework.
• Consolidate and document the fundamental components of the programme (scope, schedule, resource requirements, objectives, budgets, risks, opportunities and issues, and quality).
• With support of PMO and key stakeholders, prepare Business and Benefits case for the programme and projects.
• Develop and manage programme plan with programme team and key stakeholders.
• Gain thorough understanding of interdependencies between projects and their impact on the programme, managing them accordingly.
• Ensure the programme is on time, to quality expected and achieves agreed objectives and benefits.
• Identifies and manages risks and issues, escalating to Programme SteerCo /Exec as appropriate.
• Managing stakeholders, taking account of their levels of influence and particular interests.
• Identify and resolve differences between individuals and/or interest groups at programme level.
  
  

What We`re Looking for in You

• A confident, commercially focused individual who can build relationships and gain credibility with senior, Business and Technical stakeholders, with the ability to challenge where required.
• Demonstrated experience of influencing stakeholders at all levels of the business
• Demonstrated knowledge and successful experience of large-scale Commercial / Digital change programmes, preferably within PBSA or a related industry.
• Knowledge of Waterfall and Agile methodologies and project governance.
• Experience of evaluating the do-ability of plans considering volume of change and supply /demand.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
  
  

What You`ll Get in Return

• A discretionary annual bonus so you can share in the company`s success
• 25 days` paid holiday and an annual holiday buying scheme, with 5 additional days awarded for long service
• A generous pension scheme - employer contributions between 5% and 11% depending on how much you save
• Various benefits to support your health and wellbeing including a Healthcare Cash Plan, an Employee Assistance Programme, a Wellbeing platform and a Gym benefit that you can share with your family and friends
• Enhanced Family Leave including 18 weeks full pay for birthing parents and 4 weeks for non-birthing parents
• Lots of other great benefits including an annual ShareSave scheme, Employee Life Assurance, a discounts portal and more!
  
  

About Unite Students

Founded in 1991, Unite Students is a FTSE 100 business and the UK`s leading provider of purpose-built student accommodation. You can find us in 25 leading university towns and cities, with 74,000 students calling US home! We are driven by our values, culture, and a commitment to develop diverse and inclusive teams, filled with positive energy and new ideas.

Instinctive inclusion. We know that to create and maintain a happy healthy organisation, we have to work hard to ensure inclusion isn`t just what we do but who we are.

People make Unite Students. Employees, students and neighbours all contribute to building environments where we can all thrive.

Room for Everyone

We`re proud to be an employer that embraces individuality, and we`re passionate about building inclusive teams. We focus on creating a collaborative culture where you can be you, where your voice is heard, and where you can truly belong. We take great pride in being rated Gold Investors in People and are constantly striving to provide the highest standard of learning and development opportunities and professional pathways for our people. Building a home for success, for both our employees and students, requires exceptional people with a passion for creating room for everyone, doing what`s right, keeping US safe, and raising the bar. Join us as we build better experiences for students that live with us.

We are US.