Freelance Programme Manager

Overview You will lead programme delivery for an AI‑assisted production platform that blends workflow integration and applied AI to reduce production cycle time, improve consistency, and minimise rework. You will create the operating rhythm that helps a cross‑functional team ship predictably in a security‑constrained enterprise environment. A core part of the role is coordinating multiple teams and parallel workstreams (for example: UX/UI, integrations, applied AI, etc.), who might have different working rhythms and preferences. It’s your role to keep them aligned on shared milestones while managing dependencies, sequencing, and trade‑offs. You will not be doing this alone. You will join a collaborative, high‑calibre team of engineers, applied AI/ML experts, product partners, and domain specialists. Your role is to help the team do its best work by improving clarity, coordination, and delivery flow. This role is about making delivery predictable and calm. Success means fewer surprises, faster decisions, and a team that can focus on building a trusted product. What You’ll Do Own the programme plan and delivery cadence – Build and maintain an integrated delivery plan across discovery, build, rollout, and adoption; run an effective cadence of ceremonies and forums (planning, dependency reviews, risk reviews, stakeholder updates); ensure milestones, deliverables, and decision points are clear, tracked, and actively managed. Stakeholder and client engagement – Serve as the programme‑level point of contact for clients and senior stakeholders; provide regular, clear communication on delivery status, milestones, risks, and decisions; support and lead governance forums, steering committees, and executive updates. Delivery assurance and quality – Work with technical and delivery leads to ensure appropriate testing, integration, and release practices are in place; coordinate release readiness (go/no‑go), rollout plans, and post‑release follow‑up. Agile leadership and facilitation – Lead and facilitate agile ceremonies for one or more teams (stand‑ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives); use agile delivery tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Trello) to manage backlogs, track progress, monitor metrics, and generate reports; identify and help resolve conflicts within the team, promoting healthy communication and collaboration. Drive crossfunctional alignment and execution – Coordinate engineering, applied AI, and business stakeholders to keep scope, timelines, and dependencies aligned; translate ambiguity into a practical delivery approach (phases, releases, pilots, golive readiness); keep the team focused on outcomes and remove friction that slows delivery. Manage scope, dependencies, and change – Track dependencies across systems, integrations, data availability, and environment readiness; manage change requests with clear impact assessment on timeline, cost, and risk; support the Product Manager in balancing new asks with roadmap commitments. Own RAID, governance, and reporting – Maintain an up‑to‑date RAID log (risks, assumptions, issues, decisions) and ensure owners and mitigations are active; produce concise, decision‑oriented reporting for stakeholders and leadership; establish escalation paths and keep decisions moving. Support quality, readiness, and operationalisation – Coordinate readiness activities: access, environments, logging/audit needs, monitoring, runbooks, and support processes; ensure acceptance gates are understood and met, including evaluation plans for automated or AI‑assisted outputs; drive release planning and cutover activities across teams. Improve delivery systems and ways of working – Introduce lightweight processes that increase clarity without adding unnecessary overhead; facilitate retrospectives and continuous improvement; promote a culture of transparency, accountability, and psychological safety. What You’ll Bring Programme / delivery leadership experience – 5+ years leading delivery for complex software programmes with multiple stakeholders and dependencies. Delivery capabilities – Proven ability to run delivery across discovery, build, and rollout with measurable outcomes. #LI-Hybrid #LI-BS1 Our Hogarth Values Hands on – No egos here. Just a shared drive to roll up our sleeves and make great things happen. Every project full energy because we believe in doing things right. Every single time. It’s how we deliver real results without cutting corners. Honesty – We are real and authentic with each other and in our work. Honest, direct communication builds the trust we need to collaborate, grow, and make meaningful things together. Heart & Soul – We bring heart to everything we make. Passion, pride and relentless drive push us beyond “good enough.” We love what we do, and it shows. Happy Family – Creating a space where everyone feels valued makes this a supportive and inclusive environment for our people. We embrace our differences, celebrate wins together, and never lose our sense of humor. Hungry – Curiosity keeps us hungry. We question, experiment, and always seek out what’s next. We never settle, and we never stop learning. Inclusion and Impact – WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone belongs and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers. Please contact if you need the job advert or form in another format. 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