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Christine Ryan
Programme Manager
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Founding Contractor · 2026
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Primary specialism
Project & Programme Management
Location / working location
Manchester
Current availability
Not currently looking
Confirmed 10 Aug 2026
Profile status
Active contractor profile
Professional profile
Senior Transformation and Technology Leader with a track record of delivering complex, enterprise-wide change across healthcare, life sciences, retail and regulated environments. Combines deep technical credibility — rooted in a Computer Science background and hands-on IT Director experience — with the strategic and commercial acumen to lead large-scale transformation at board level. Proven ability to build and govern delivery portfolios, shape operating models, and drive measurable business outcomes across concurrent programmes. Comfortable with ambiguity, decisive under pressure, and trusted by executive teams to translate strategy into results.
Core skills
Business Transformation & Organisational Change
Digital & Technology Transformation
Strategic Programme & Portfolio Leadership
Operating Model Design & Transformation
Executive Stakeholder & Board Engagement
Organisational Scaling & Capability Building
Governance
PMO & Delivery Assurance
Benefits Realisation & Value Delivery
Risk
RAID & Issue Management
Supplier & Third-Party Management
Budget & Capacity Planning
Resource Planning
Agile
What I’m looking for next
Target roles: Programme Manager · Transformation Manager · Project Manager
Contract preferences
Working preferenceRemote · Hybrid · On-site
Will workManchester, North West, Renote
IR35 preferenceOutside IR35 · Inside IR35
IT experience25 years
Available from10 Jan 2027
Relevant work experience
Programme Manager | Magentus (Contractor) | Jan 2025 – Mar 2026 Led strategic transformation and portfolio delivery within a complex regulated clinical technology environment, supporting NHS trusts, private healthcare providers and HSE Ireland across organisational change and operational scalability. Programme & Portfolio Manager | Card Factory | May 2023 – Jan 2025 Managed a portfolio of strategic technology and business transformation programmes supporting infrastructure modernisation, retail transformation and operational improvement across a large multi-site retail organisation. IT Director | Circular1 Health | Nov 2021 – Mar 2023 Held executive accountability for IT strategy, delivery and operations in a fast-scaling digital healthcare organisation. Led multiple concurrent transformation programmes while building organisational capability and scaling the IT function to support rapid growth.
Experience & credentials
Certifications, sector experience and security clearance are self-declared unless specifically marked as independently verified by IT Contractors UK.
Sector experience
Retail · Gaming · Life Sciences · Healthcare
Certifications
Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) Practitioner · PRINCE2 Advanced Practitioner (lapsed)
Professional links
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