Senior/Director Programme Manager

Role: Senior/Director Programme Manager - Regulatory Review & Remediation

Location: Northampton - Hybrid model 3 days onsite

Start Date: October 2026

End Date: up to 12 months

Daily Rate: Inside IR35

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This is an exciting opportunity to join Deloitte Operations for an engagement with one of our clients.

The Role

We are seeking a highly credible and experienced leader to direct complex regulatory reviews within a major financial institution. The role requires the ability to engage confidently and transparently with regulators, Legal and Compliance teams, and senior stakeholders, including Managing Directors and cross-functional programme teams.

The successful candidate will be able to interpret statutory notices and terms of reference, translate requirements into clear deliverables, and maintain disciplined scope control throughout delivery. Strong governance and accountability skills are essential, including the ability to establish Board and executive oversight, define decision rights, assign clear ownership and implement robust programme controls.

Experience & Skills Required

· Leadership of Programmes subject to regulatory scrutiny: Proven experience directing complex Regulatory reviews within a major financial institution.

· Regulatory engagement: Credible at senior level with regulators, Legal and Compliance, ensuring transparent, controlled and timely engagement.

· Executive stakeholder management: Exceptional communication, influencing and constructive challenge skills at a senior level, experience operating with cross functional teams and programmes, Managing Directors and regulators.

· Scope and terms of reference: Strong capability to interpret the statutory notice and terms of reference, translate requirements into deliverables and maintain disciplined scope control.

· Governance and accountability: Ability to establish Board and executive oversight and governance, clear decision rights, accountable ownership and robust programme controls.

· Evidence management: Expertise in coordinating complete, accurate and traceable evidence submissions, including quality assurance, version control and defensible audit trails.

· Interviews and information requests: Experience managing regulatory interviews, document requests, data production and responses across multiple business and control functions.

· Remediation delivery: Proven ability to convert findings into prioritised, sustainable remediation plans with clear owners, milestones, outcomes and closure evidence, as appropriate.

· Independent challenge and assurance: Ability to test the quality and sustainability of evidence artefacts and escalate weaknesses or delivery risks promptly.

· Integrated programme control: Strong management of critical paths, dependencies, resources, budgets, risks, issue and deliverables against regulatory deadlines.

· Executive communication: Exceptional judgement and communication skills, producing concise, evidence-based reporting for senior management, Board committees and regulatory stakeholders.

Preferred but not essential

· Third-party risk expertise: Experience in TPRM, supplier governance, outsourcing, supplier assurance, critical third-party oversight and supplier risk remediation