RAID Manager - Technology & Data Programme

Location: Hybrid (2 days per week onsite) Southampton

We are looking for a detail-driven RAID Manager to own and coordinate the integrated view of risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies across a complex technology and data programme. This role is key to ensuring delivery confidence by providing clear visibility, tracking, and escalation of RAID items across multiple domains and suppliers.

• Establish the RAID management framework, processes, and governance
• Implement consistent logging, tracking, and assessment standards across teams
• Build an integrated RAID view aligned to delivery plans and milestones
• Define ownership, escalation routes, and reporting structures
• Identify early cross-domain risks, dependencies, and delivery blockers
• Embed tooling and reporting for RAID visibility across stakeholders

• Maintain a single, integrated RAID view across domains, suppliers, and workstreams
• Ensure all risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies are consistently logged and tracked
• Assess and highlight cross-domain and cross-supplier impacts
• Link RAID items to delivery plans, milestones, readiness, and critical path
• Track ownership, actions, and timelines, ensuring timely resolution
• Identify emerging trends, recurring risks, and unresolved blockers
• Provide clear RAID reporting and escalation recommendations to governance forums
• Ensure closed-loop tracking of actions, decisions, and outcomes

• Lead Planner
• Delivery Assurance Lead
• Domain Delivery Managers and Squad Leads
• Business Analysis, Design, and Test Leads
• Environment and Release Management teams
• Programme Governance / PMO

• Proven experience managing RAID on large-scale technology or transformation programmes
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail and risk awareness
• Experience working across complex, multi-supplier environments
• Comfortable operating within governance frameworks and reporting structures
• Understanding of Agile / SAFe and traditional delivery models