Description
Lead Project Manager - Commercial Banking - Customer Operations Change Management - 6 months - Hove/Chester
A top retail bank based in Hove or Chester is currently seeking a Lead Project Manager to join a Customer Operations Change Management programme for a 6 month period.
Overview of the Programme/Project
- NDA - Stockholm is a regulatory programme, delivering change via multiple workstreams to a Business Function across multiple sites, on and off shore.
- NDA - Oslo is a regulatory programme, delivering change via multiple workstreams to a Business Function across multiple sites, on and off shore.
Responsibilities and Accountabilities
Programme/Project Set Up and Closure:
- Feeds into business study/programme proposals and business cases, ensuring alignment with business strategy; agreement of project benefits; and how these will be measured and tracked post implementation.
- Works with the business area to ensure an effective approach to business implementation, handover, and acceptance of the change.
Governance and Reporting:
- Works closely with the Programme Leads to provide regular status reporting appropriately to different stakeholders and to agreed CMT standards and recommend options for contingency plans.
Project Delivery:
- Defines and implements a detailed delivery approach for each stage of the project life cycle, obtains acceptance and buy-in to the approach from all team members, and produces and owns all project management deliverables, using established project methodologies, to the right level of quality.
Planning and Finance:
- Produces and owns the project plan. Controls, manages and monitors project timescales and budgets, reporting variances, escalating as appropriate to overcome delays, difficulties or cost over-runs, and re-forecasting where necessary.
Resource Management:
- Tracks resource requirements (including roles and responsibilities), budget and FTE profile for areas of responsibility.
Stakeholder Management:
- Identifies key project stakeholders and develops an appropriate stakeholder communication plan.
- Engages with a diverse group of stakeholders to influence direction of projects to meet the project milestones. Typically up to and including Grade G level.
People and Self Development:
- Where appropriate, manages, motivates, develops and coaches assigned team members to create a high performing team.
Risk:
- Continuously monitors projects for risk issues and regulatory compliance and takes appropriate steps to mitigate.
Essential Skills and Experience
- Must have strong PM experience
- Collections and Recoveries
- Management of controllable costs and resources to target
- Delivery of projects to time, quality and cost/benefit objectives
- Delivery of agreed plan
- Management and influence of stakeholders
- Clear written and Oral communication
- Effective risk management and control
Desirable Skills and Experience
- Managing Regulatory Change experience
- Credit Risk experience
- Personal Current Accounts
Please note that, due to the high level of applications we receive, we are not able to provide individual responses. If you have not heard from us within 2 working days, please assume that you have not been successful on this occasion.
Campion Willcocks is an equal opportunities employer. Services advertised by Campion Willcocks are those of an employment business.