Freelance Programme Manager
Job Description
About dss+
At dss+, you don’t just deliver projects - you help save lives, improve performance, and build a more sustainable future.
We are a purpose-led global consultancy partnering with organisations in high-risk and asset-intensive industries to solve complex operational challenges across safety, operational excellence, and sustainability.
With a heritage rooted in DuPont’s industrial operations, we combine deep expertise, practical problem-solving, and digital innovation to deliver measurable and lasting impact for our clients.
Why This Role
This role focuses on leading complex, multi-workstream transformation programmes, driving delivery across safety, operational risk, and organisational change initiatives.
You will play a critical leadership role in shaping programme direction, defining priorities, and mobilising client teams to deliver outcomes at pace.
Your Impact at dss+
You will lead and coordinate a large-scale transformation programme, ensuring alignment and progress across multiple workstreams while driving ownership within the client organisation.
Key Accountabilities
Lead programme delivery across key workstreams, ensuring alignment, pace, and measurable outcomes
Define clear priorities, actions, and expectations for client stakeholders, proactively driving delivery rather than waiting for instruction
Establish robust programme governance, tracking progress, risks, and dependencies across all workstreams
Provide clear and structured progress reporting to senior stakeholders, ensuring visibility and accountability
Engage across client departments to mobilise resources, remove barriers, and drive execution
Core Workstreams
Phase 2 and 3 transformation initiatives across safety and operational improvement
Organisation-wide risk awareness training delivery, including optimisation of booking and scheduling processes
Enhancements to reporting systems (e.g. Synergy) to support critical risk visibility and decision-making
Internal communications to reinforce programme objectives and behavioural change
Coaching and capability development for support staff and key stakeholders