Technology Program & Governance Manager

Job Summary

GM Performance Power Units is seeking an experienced Technology Program & Governance Manager to join our Digital Technology team. This role is responsible for leading and coordinating a portfolio of technology initiatives across multiple functional disciplines.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, execution, monitoring, and successful delivery of technology projects and programmes, managing multiple concurrent initiatives with varying levels of complexity and business impact.
• Establish project plans, schedules, budgets, risks, dependencies, and resource requirements.
• Track delivery progress and provide regular status reporting to stakeholders, leadership, and executives, ensuring delivery risks are identified, assessed, and mitigated.
• Facilitate and support Steering Committees, project boards, and stakeholder review meetings.

Business Analysis & Requirements Management

• Facilitate workshops, interviews, and discovery sessions to gather, analyse, and document high-quality business requirements, functional specifications, process maps, and supporting documentation.
• Translate business needs into clear and actionable requirements for technical delivery teams.
• Support solution evaluation and option assessments where required.

Supplier & Procurement Management

• Act as a key liaison between technology teams, procurement, and external suppliers, supporting vendor selection, RFP/RFQ processes, contract reviews, and commercial evaluations.
• Monitor supplier performance against agreed deliverables, milestones, and service commitments.
• Help coordinate third-party resources and ensure effective integration with internal teams.

Stakeholder Management

• Build strong relationships across business and all technology functions.
• Facilitate collaboration between technical specialists, business leaders, and external partners.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and drive alignment on priorities, scope, and delivery outcomes.
• Act as a trusted advisor for project governance, delivery practices, and business change.

Continuous Improvement

• Promote project management best practices, standards, and governance frameworks.
• Contribute to the development and improvement of PMO processes, templates, and reporting.
• Support portfolio planning and prioritisation activities across the Digital Technology function.

Change Governance & Change Management

• Own and continuously improve the technology change governance framework, ensuring changes are planned, assessed, approved, and implemented in a controlled manner.
• Capture and maintain visibility of technology changes, dependencies, risks, and impacts across Digital Technology teams, suppliers, and business stakeholders.
• Facilitate change governance forums and ensure appropriate operational, security, technical, and business approvals are obtained prior to implementation.
• Drive effective communication, reporting, and organisational readiness activities to maximise the successful adoption and delivery of technology change.

Required Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering complex technology programmes and projects, with strong risk, issue, budget, and dependency management capability.
• Strong business analysis and requirements gathering skills.
• Experience working across diverse technology domains, such as infrastructure, cybersecurity, software development, enterprise applications, ERP, PLM, data, and analytics.
• Experience running governance forums, steering committees, change control forums and programme reviews, with a demonstrated ability to manage senior stakeholders and executive audiences.
• Experience working with procurement teams and managing third-party suppliers.
• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and facilitation skills.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities & verticals simultaneously.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within high-performance, engineering, manufacturing, motorsport, automotive, or similarly fast-paced environments.
• Knowledge of Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Familiarity with enterprise technology platforms, cloud services, cybersecurity programmes, ERP systems, and digital transformation initiatives.
• Project Management certification. (PRINCE2, PMP, MSP, AgilePM, or equivalent)
• Business Analysis certification. (BCS, IIBA, or equivalent)