Digital Programme Manager

Hello, we are Ledger Bennett, the integrated B2B agency within Havas Group.

We're uniquely positioned at the intersection of entrepreneurial spirit and global scale. Since 1985, we've been obsessed with a singular mission: transforming one-time buyers into Forever Customers, creating long-term value rather than just short-term impact.

We deliver this through the powerful fusion of data, creativity, and media.

Now, as part of the Havas family, the opportunities have never been bigger. Here, you'll work alongside talent across EMEA, APAC, and North America, partnering with clients like GE, Microsoft and Linked In to deliver radical relevance and intelligent customer experiences that drive real growth.

With 40+ years of B2B expertise and the backing of a global network, Ledger Bennett offers you the rare chance to shape the future of B2B marketing while building a career with no ceiling – just endless opportunity.

The Digital Programme Manager will lead the client-side management and coordination of a major global website transformation programme, working in partnership with Ledger Bennett and other delivery partners.

The role will be responsible for ensuring that the programme is effectively governed, client teams are aligned and accountable, and that the business, marketing, creative and technology work streams come together to deliver a successful digital platform.

This is a senior programme management role requiring strong experience in enterprise digital transformation, stakeholder management, technology delivery and commercial governance.

The successful candidate will act as the central point of coordination between the client organisation and its delivery partners, ensuring that decisions are made, dependencies are managed and the programme remains aligned to business objectives.

• Own the client-side programme management of the website transformation.
• Establish and maintain the overall programme plan, milestones and delivery governance.
• Coordinate the client’s internal teams and external delivery partners.
• Establish programme governance forums, reporting and escalation processes.
• Maintain the programme RAID log, decision log and dependency tracker.
• Ensure that programme risks and issues are identified, managed and escalated appropriately.
• Coordinate steering committee and programme board meetings.
• Ensure that decisions are made within agreed timescales.
• Provide clear and accurate programme reporting to senior stakeholders.

• Coordinate the client’s responsibilities across business, marketing, content, IT, security, infrastructure and regional teams.
• Ensure that client resources are identified, allocated and available when required.
• Manage client-side dependencies and approvals.
• Ensure that client deliverables are provided to agreed standards and timelines.
• Coordinate UAT, business acceptance and operational readiness.
• Ensure that the client organisation is prepared for launch and ongoing operation.
• Coordinate regional and functional stakeholder input.
• Support the Product Owner in prioritising requirements and resolving competing priorities.
• Coordinate the client’s technology work streams and internal IT stakeholders.
• Ensure that enterprise architecture, security, infrastructure and application development teams are engaged at the appropriate stages.
• Coordinate technical reviews, approvals and stage gates.
• Ensure that client-side technical dependencies are identified and managed.
• Coordinate infrastructure, networking, DNS, security, IAM and integration activities.
• Ensure that technical standards and governance requirements are understood and addressed.
• Coordinate the client-side approval of changes.
• Ensure that changes are assessed…