Skip to content
CV Rocket
Get started
How it worksThe enginePricingBlogContactSign in

Open nowPosted 36 hours ago

Programme Manager

DF Capital

Where
Ancoats, Manchester, United Kingdom
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Your applicationOpen nowProgramme ManagerDF Capital · Ancoats, Manchester, United Kingdom

  1. YouYes, apply to this one.

  2. CV RocketCV written for this posting.

  3. 25 readersRecruiter, hiring manager, skeptic. Round after round.

  4. CV RocketApplied on DF Capital's own form.

The reply lands in your private mailbox

3×more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

The clock on this job

Early applications get read.

11.9% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market.

Share of postings closed within
  1. 2.1%1 day
  2. 4.4%3 days
  3. 11.9%7 days
  4. 18.6%14 days
  5. 35.6%30 days
  6. 45.1%60 days
This job: posted 36 hours ago

The posting

We’re DF Capital – a specialist bank providing award-winning commercial finance, retail finance, and savings products to consumers and small businesses.

Based in Manchester, we serve thousands of customers across the UK and into Europe, supporting their ambitions with tailored financial solutions.

We help our customers realise their ambitions by doing things differently – combining the agility and innovation of a specialist lender with the security and service standards of a regulated bank. Whether it’s flexible lending structures or straightforward savings options, we focus on what matters most to our customers.

In 2025, we launched DF Capital Retail Finance – a subsidiary of DF Capital Bank Limited – to offer specialist hire purchase solutions to retail customers.

Our goal is simple: to do the absolute best for our customers, our communities, and each other.

Your new role:

Our Programme Manager will lead a team to deliver enterprise wide projects across change and transformation.

You will coordinate related projects, people, and resources to meet our strategic business goals, overseeing planning, governance, delivery, schedules, and budgets while resolving bottlenecks and improving efficiency.

With a pragmatic and delivery focussed approach you engage with stakeholders, whilst operating holistically across our leadership, operations, technology, and commercial teams, as well as our other support functions. Operating within a fast moving business with big growth and business change ambitions, you will have the exciting opportunity to act as the catalyst for control and agility whilst maintaining strong governance and controls.

This role leads the scoping, definition and delivery of change and continuous improvement to ensure outcomes and expected benefits are clearly articulated and that agreed work is aligned to the overall project/initiative.

The role requires the ability to drive and flex between both a transformational agenda and understanding the detail to “do the doing”.

Requirements

DF Capital are passionate about providing employees with the right training and development to help them excel in their roles and future careers. We are confident that an applicant with the right attitude and drive will succeed in this role.

Other duties may be assigned outside of the following duties and responsibilities:

Responsibilities and duties :

Strategic Alignment:

  • Driving DFC strategic vision by organising numerous projects that contribute to the organisation’s overall objectives.
  • Designing, coordinate, and improving internal and external programs to adhere to organisational goals.

Planning and Governance:

  • Developing and overseeing project plans, schedules, and budgets for programme completion
  • Establishes programme governance (controls) defines the scope and success criteria.
  • Define project / continuous improvement scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical / process / resource feasibility
  • Work closely with the business stakeholders to define and manage any risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies within a RAID log to ensure effective running of the project and all mitigating actions and controls are delivered
  • Deliver projects within accordance of the standard framework as outlined by DFC and ensure all project documentation is completed and filed correctly
  • Develop and manage a detailed project schedule and work plans
  • Use appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule and costs
  • Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques

Monitoring and Control:

  • Proactively monitoring progress, resolving issues, and initiating appropriate corrective actions to ensure the programme stays on track. This includes daily program management throughout the programme life cycle.
  • Report updates of project progress and required escalations to the CTO and other key stakeholders
  • Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget

Stakeholder Management:

  • Coordinating and communicating with stakeholders, team members, and external partners to ensure alignment and smooth execution.
  • To collaborate with project sponsors/stakeholders to ensure the business case for change is clearly defined, documented and prioritised
  • Manage relationships with third parties by assigning tasks and communicating expected deliverables to ensure smooth delivery of the project

Leadership:

  • Overseeing teams, providing leadership on major programme launches, and coordinating activities from initiation to completion (cradle to grave)
  • Act as a mentor and guide supporting the development of a team of BA’s / Change Analysts including regular coaching and performance management.
  • Be seen as an advocate for change working closely with the business stakeholders to identify improvements in current ways of working
  • Foster a culture of continuous improvement through delivering operational improvements initiatives
  • Complete lessons learnt to enable sharing of best practise across the Change team

Requirements:

Strategic Thinking:

· Ability to align programme objectives with the organisation’s broader strategic goals and vision.

· A solid understanding of the change process and the people impact of change

Leadership and Stakeholder Management:

  • Strong interpersonal skills to lead cross-functional teams, manage expectations, and communicate effectively with senior leadership and external partners.
  • Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships
  • Ability to influence others and move toward a common vision or goal
  • Flexible and adaptable; able to work in ambiguous situations
  • Resilient and tenacious with a propensity to persevere
  • Forward looking with a holistic approach

Risk and Issue Management:

  • The ability to proactively identify risks, resolve complex issues, and implement corrective actions to keep the programme on track.
  • Demonstrable experienceestablishing and maintaining programme governance, controls, and reporting structures.

Financial and Budgeting Skills:

  • Experience in budget planning, financial forecasting, and resource allocation.

Communication and Organisation:

  • Strong organisational skills and attention to detail, with a demonstrated ability to work independently, lead projects, prioritise, and manage a high-volume of tasks, deadlines, requirements, and decisions
  • Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Excellent active listening skills
  • Ability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences

Benefits

  • Competitive salary (dependent on experience)
  • Private medical insurance for you (and your partner)
  • Private Dental
  • 10% Employer pension contribution
  • 30-day annual leave entitlement plus Bank/Public Holidays
  • Free Gym Membership
  • Discretionary annual bonus
  • Discretionary share awards
  • Life Assurance
  • Income Protection
  • Save As You Earn company share acquisition scheme
  • Tax-efficient salary sacrifice scheme to obtain bicycles and electric vehicles
  • 4 days per year volunteering opportunities to support our local communities
  • World class offices based in lively Ancoats
From $25, paid onceGet the CV for this job

What happens when you press

One press. We do the rest.

  1. A CV for this posting

    Written against DF Capital's own wording, from every piece of relevant proof in your profile.

  2. 25 readers review it

    Recruiter, hiring manager, skeptic and more read every draft, round after round. You get the best round.

    The review screen in CV Rocket: how each CV was read, round by round.

  3. We apply on DF Capital's form

    Our application engine gets through the hardest forms there are. Where a question needs you, AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

    An application in CV Rocket: every answer filled in on the employer's form.

  4. Every reply, sorted

    DF Capital's answer lands in your private mailbox, and we classify it on arrival: interview, question, rejection.

    The CV Rocket inbox: each employer reply classified as an interview, an action or a rejection.

  5. Reply with AI

    AI helps you write the email, checks it and sends it. We show you whether the recruiter read it.

  6. The interview in your calendar

    Full integration with your calendar. The invitation goes straight in.

    An interview invitation in the CV Rocket inbox, added to the candidate's calendar.
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Why it works

3×

more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

ChatGPT writes a CV and never learns what happened to it. We see every reply. For each CV we know:

  • How it was written, and how the review scored it
  • When we applied, and how long after the posting went up
  • Which posting, which company, which city
  • Who got the interview, and who heard nothing

That is how we know which CVs get called.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

The numbers game

More applications. More interviews.

Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting and paid once. Send enough of them and the law of large numbers finds you the job.

Get the CV for this job
By hand5–10
With CV Rocket100
applications a day

Nearby

Live postings like this one

Same employer first, then the same role elsewhere.

Before you press

Straight answers

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

What if my background isn't good enough?

We make the most of the background you have. The CV uses every piece of relevant proof your profile holds, and one of the 25 readers reads your whole profile and flags what the CV left out.

Do you really apply for me?

Yes, on the employer's own form, the hardest ones included. Where a question needs you, you answer it right there and AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

Is it a subscription?

No. You pay once per CV, from $25. Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting.

One job. One CV.
Paid once.

Pick the posting you want. We write for it, apply for you and catch the reply.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.