Job Description

The management of Projects within a large portfolio of approved regulatory and discretionary projects to meet identified business needs, acquiring and utilising the necessary resources and skills, within agreed parameters of cost, timescales and quality. Actively drive project delivery acting on and removing blockers as they occur, escalating issues and seeking guidance from Lead Project Managers and Portfolio Managers as appropriate. Occasional travel across multiple sites may be required for cross location projects.

Summary of Department:

The Change Delivery department is responsible for the development and maintenance of the Platform Solutions Portfolio of change projects, the delivery of all projects and programmes within the portfolio, and the ongoing evolution of the Platform Solutions Change Management framework. Its primary objective is to plan and deliver the programmes of work that are required to support Platform Solutions in achieving its business objectives.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Skills:

• Good communication skills both verbal and written.
• Able to build strong relations with business users, IT Delivery Managers, Project team members and peers.
• Good negotiation and influencing skills.
• Role model teamwork across the Change function and broader client business.
• Excellent planning and organisational skills.
• Well versed in MS Office software.
• Good people engagement and stakeholder management skills.

Knowledge:

Essential

• Good knowledge and practical application of Project delivery methodologies e.g. agile, waterfall, Prince2.
• Risk Management experience- project and operational.
• Understanding the principles, methods, techniques and tools for the preparation and monitoring of project budgets.

Desired

• Adaptability, business strategy, organisational and process design, procurement, presentations.

Experience:

Essential

• Experience of delivering change through a project management lifecycle that could include Waterfall, Agile or Hybrid approaches.
• A knowledge of applied project management, delivery and planning principles that includes scoping, requirements, testing and business readiness.
• A knowledge of project budget management processes that includes how to conduct regular re-forecasting, tracking variance, and the impact of change control.
• Strong business influencing and decision-making skills that achieve early resolution of key decisions and remove conflict from the project.
• Successful and proven relationship management skills that enable complex project problems to be communicated to key stakeholders in an accessible and engaging way.

Desired

• Sound experience within financial services industry (not essential)
• Have a relevant project management qualification (example Prince 2)
• Have delivered projects in both a Waterfall and an Agile/ Hybrid manner, using project management tools such as JIRA and MS Project.
• Experience of delivering complex Business Change and IT delivery projects

Desired Qualifications:

• Prince 2 practitioner
• Scrum Master (CSM)