At Atos, Programme Directors play a critical role in translating strategy into measurable business outcomes. As a Programme / Transition Director, you will hold senior accountability for the successful delivery, recovery, and commercial performance of complex programmes, ensuring contractual commitments are met while enabling sustainable, high-quality outcomes for clients.
You will work closely with Account Executives, customers, and senior stakeholders to shape and deliver programmes that balance cost, timescale, scope, and risk, often within complex, multi-supplier and multicultural environments.
Why join us?
- Take end-to-end accountability for high-impact programmes, from pre-contract and bid through transition, delivery, and production launch.
- Influence programme structure, governance, and resourcing to protect revenue, margin, and long-term profitability.
- Operate at senior level, aligning IT investment and transformation initiatives with client and Atos business strategy.
Key Responsibilities
- Hold end-to-end accountability for programme and transition delivery, recovery, and commercial performance from pre-contract through production launch.
- Translate Atos strategy and contractual commitments into structured, executable programmes aligned to business objectives, cost, timescale, and scope.
- Lead programme governance across complex, multicultural environments with multiple internal teams and third-party suppliers.
- Own contractual and commercial delivery, including scope definition, workstream alignment, and management of risks, issues, and dependencies.
- Establish and control programme financials, including budget creation, workstream allocation, forecasting, and financial reporting.
- Direct programme planning, delivery, and synchronization of Atos and third-party milestones across sourcing, onboarding, build, validation, and launch phases.
- Challenge business and technical solutions to improve speed, cost, quality, and delivery effectiveness.
- Lead, motivate, and hold programme leadership teams accountable through clear objectives, performance reporting, and recovery planning.
- Act as the primary internal point of leadership for programme activities and lead senior customer reviews.
- Drive continuous improvement through programme standards, KPIs, best practices, lessons learned, and effective operating rhythms.
Skillset and Experience
- Provide senior, visible leadership across complex programmes and own outcomes and accountability.
- Set and communicate programme strategy aligned to Atos and customer objectives.
- Coach and role-model high performance, inclusion, and collaboration.
- Lead large, multicultural teams of 50–300+ staff across geographies.
- Demonstrate strong commercial, contractual, and procurement awareness.
- Plan and control large, multi-stream programmes with third-party and external dependencies.
- Manage scope, milestones, risks, issues, and change through structured governance.
- Take overall accountability for end-to-end programme delivery and operational readiness.
- Ensure services are production-ready, including CMDB, monitoring, and support enablement.
- Balance rapid delivery of business benefits with service quality and customer experience.
- Understand the impact of decisions on cost, margin, profitability, and risk.
- Own programme-level change control and maintain contractual compliance while protecting Atos’ commercial position.
Qualifications
- Proven experience as a Programme / Transition Director or equivalent.
- Fully mobile in terms of assignment location.
- Proven track record managing £10M+ programmes, typically contributing to £50M+ TCV deals.
- Experience leading complex portfolios and delivering against commercial targets.
- Degree in a business or technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
- At least one recognised external Project / Programme Management certification.
Additional Requirements
Candidates must be eligible to obtain and maintain SC clearance. This is a UK-based role. Remote working is available, with national mobility required.
Benefits
- 25 days annual paid leave plus national holidays
- Pension scheme with contributions matched up to 10%
- Private medical scheme
- Life assurance
- Income protection
- Flex Benefits Program
Recruiter contact: Elvira Dupcheva at elvira.dupcheva@atos.ai or UK-Recruitment-Support@atos.net.