Who we're looking for
We are seeking an experienced governance and frameworks specialist to help shape the delivery practice framework for Asset Management Platforms. This is not a delivery management role. It is focused on designing and embedding the governance models, change frameworks, standards and core artefacts that enable delivery teams to operate consistently, clearly and effectively at scale.
The successful candidate will have built practice-level governance in a complex environment, whether within an enterprise PMO that evolved beyond reporting, or in a consultancy or financial services organisation where change governance and delivery standards were developed from the ground up. Fluency across delivery methodologies is essential. The frameworks produced must work across structured programme governance, iterative delivery cadences and hybrid approaches without imposing a single way of working.
This role also works across disciplines. The governance and frameworks it creates must support a coherent end-to-end delivery lifecycle across Asset Management Platforms, aligning standards, artefacts and governance touchpoints across Delivery Management, Analysis & Business Architecture, and Engineering & Enterprise Architecture from demand through to value realisation.
About Schroders
We are a global investment manager. We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future.
We have around 5,000 people on six continents. And we have been around for over 200 years, but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What does not change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper.
What you'll do
- Co-design and implement a multi-tiered governance model covering portfolio, programme and team-level oversight, including decision rights, escalation pathways and stage gate criteria
- Ensure AMP delivery governance connects coherently to Group-level and business change governance, resolving boundary ambiguity and removing unnecessary hierarchy
- Build governance that operates consistently across all delivery contexts without enforcing a single methodology
- Work across all three practices to align governance touchpoints across the full delivery lifecycle, from demand through to value realisation
- Develop the delivery standards baseline through practitioner working groups, classifying standards as mandatory, recommended or optional
- Create and maintain core delivery artefacts: initiation documents, risk and dependency frameworks, reporting templates and governance pack formats
- Own the standards lifecycle - introduction, adoption, review and retirement
- Design the adoption measurement approach, tracking which standards are in active use and where gaps remain
- Embed standards through the community of practice, onboarding and peer review alongside the Enterprise Delivery Leads
- Maintain practice boundaries - clarifying what the delivery practice owns, what sits with domains and what is shared. Keep boundaries current and agreed
- Design the demand management front door, ensuring new work is visible to leadership to aid assessment and prioritisation across the portfolio
- Support the development of delivery health metrics that feed portfolio intelligence
- Design escalation pathways and stage gate processes that function systematically
Drive simplification - actively reducing artefacts, governance forums and unnecessary oversight load on delivery teams
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The knowledge, experience and qualifications you need
Essential
- Significant experience designing and implementing enterprise change governance frameworks within a large, complex organisation - financial services or regulated environment preferred
- Track record building delivery standards that were genuinely adopted by delivery teams, not solely published
- Fluency across delivery methodologies and an understanding of how governance adapts across structured, iterative, scaled and hybrid approaches
- Experience working within or alongside an enterprise PMO that has matured beyond status reporting into delivery intelligence
- Experience managing practice or functional boundaries in a matrix organisation
- Strong stakeholder engagement across senior leadership, domain leads and delivery practitioners
Excellent written communication - frameworks and standards must be clear, concise and usable
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Desirable
- Experience in financial services technology delivery, particularly vendor-led platform programmes
- Familiarity with delivery management capability and skill frameworks
- Understanding of delivery performance metrics and how they integrate into governance and portfolio health
- Experience designing governance for emerging delivery models including AI-native approaches
- Relevant qualifications: PRINCE2, MSP, PMP, SAFe, MoP or Agile (PSM/CSM)
Experience with portfolio management tooling
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What you'll be like
Governance as enabler: You see governance as a mechanism that improves delivery quality and decision-making, not as a control function. You have worked in environments where governance was either too heavy or too light and you understand where the balance sits.
Designed for adoption: You are methodical in how you design frameworks but pragmatic about how they land. You understand that a standard is only valuable if it is actively used, so you design for adoption from the start - co-creating with practitioners rather than imposing from above.
Credible across audiences: You are comfortable operating across senior leadership and delivery teams. You can present a governance model to a CTO and walk a delivery lead through a reporting template with equal clarity and confidence.
Resolves ambiguity: When accountability is unclear you make it explicit. When ownership is contested you facilitate resolution. When a standard is not working you retire it rather than defend it.
Cross-functional mindset: You understand that delivery governance does not exist in isolation. You actively seek alignment across disciplines - analysis, architecture, engineering - because coherent governance requires a shared approach, not parallel frameworks.
Ownership and drive: You take accountability for outcomes. You do not wait for direction on every decision. You identify gaps, propose solutions and move work forward with appropriate pace and rigour.
We're looking for the best, whoever they are
Schroders is an equal opportunities employer. You are welcome here whatever your socio-economic background, race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious belief, age or disability.
