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Programme Lead – Global Launch Planning Lead
- birmingham, england, United Kingdom
- £60 - £90 Per Hour
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Own the overall content programme plan and maintain the integrated roadmap across UX, content, configurator, development and market activity.
- Manage delivery against fixed website and vehicle launch milestones, ensuring all workstreams remain on track.
- Run programme governance routines, including RAID management, status reporting, dependency tracking and escalation management.
- Maintain the master launch calendar covering website launches, vehicle launches and key readiness milestones.
- Define and oversee cut‑over plans, launch sequencing and hyper‑care arrangements for each major release.
- Coordinate cross‑stream and cross‑market activity in the run‑up to launch dates, ensuring clear ownership and timely execution.
- Lead readiness assessments and go/no‑go decision forums, ensuring risks, blockers and mitigations are clearly understood.
- Work closely with functional leads to resolve issues, manage interdependencies and protect delivery quality.
- Drive post‑launch review activity and embed lessons learned into future launch planning.
Requirements
- Strong programme leadership experience in large, cross‑functional digital or content operations environments.
- Proven ability to manage integrated plans across multiple workstreams with fixed delivery dates.
- Strong governance capability, including RAID management, decision tracking and executive reporting.
- Experience supporting website launches and product or vehicle launch cycles.
- Experience working in multi‑market or international delivery environments.
- Knowledge of content operations, localisation or market engagement models.
- Experience coordinating complex launches, releases or transformation milestones involving multiple stakeholders.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders, delivery teams and market representatives.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to balance strategic oversight and operational detail.
- Sound judgement in risk assessment, issue resolution and go/no‑go decision support.
- Clear communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to drive alignment across distributed teams.