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# Senior Manager, Technology Governance, Change and Comms

- **Company:** ICAEW
- **Location:** Milton Keynes, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £70,000.0 - £85,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JIRA, PRINCE2, Power BI, Servicenow
- **Published:** September 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2847389676-senior-manager-technology-governance-change-and-comms

## About the Role

* Experience: Demonstrable experience in technology leadership roles across governance, PMO, or business change. Proven experience managing teams and overseeing large-scale digital portfolios or transformation programmes.
 * Skills: Strong leadership and stakeholder engagement; strategic thinking and analytical capability; governance design and assurance; change and communications planning; benefit tracking and value measurement.
 * Preferred Qualifications: Degree in Business, Technology, or equivalent. Professional certifications in MoP, PRINCE2, MSP, PROSCI, APMG Change Management, or similar highly desirable. Familiarity with enterprise tools (e.g., Jira, Power BI, ServiceNow) expected.
 * Strategic and structured - Able to connect the dots between governance, change, and delivery strategy, bringing clarity to complex portfolios.

## Description

We're looking for a Senior Manager, Tech Governance, Change & Comms to join our team in Milton Keynes on a permanent basis. This role offers a salary of £70,000 - £85,000 per annum with a hybrid working pattern.

To lead ICAEW's technology governance, change management, and communications functions, ensuring that the tech portfolio is strategically aligned, transparently prioritised, well-governed, and successfully adopted across the organisation. This role manages the Tech Change Manager, providing direction, support, and strategic oversight to ensure consistent delivery, measurable outcomes, and effective engagement across all technology initiatives.

What you will be doing:

 * Strategic leadership of tech governance and change functions - Manage, mentor, and align the work of the Tech Change Manager to ensure coordinated and effective support of portfolio delivery and adoption.
 * Oversee governance and prioritisation processes - Provide executive oversight of the Portfolio Steering Group, ensuring prioritisation is fair, transparent, and aligned to organisational strategy. Ensure governance frameworks are robust, scalable, and consistently applied.
 * Drive delivery discipline and standards - Champion the consistent use of technology delivery frameworks (e.g., business case development, benefit tracking, agile practices) across the portfolio, with oversight of governance enforcement and improvement.
 * Oversee benefit tracking and realisation - Ensure appropriate mechanisms are in place to monitor and report on whether initiatives deliver intended strategic and financial outcomes. Support escalations where benefits are at risk.


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