Description
Resource Manager - Banking - London - Circa £350 per day
A leading retail bank requires a Resource Manager to participate in a major divestment programme, they will be responsible for supporting the PMO Lead by leading the resourcing processes across the Operations programme.
Key Accountabilities:
- Adhere to appropriate recruitment processes and funding approval to support programmes growth and to ensure alignment to the resource plan
- Manage the co-ordination and tracking of resource plans via the Resource Management Tool, onboarding of staff and other resource related matters
- Provide input and support in the co-ordination and management of the workstream budget
- Ensure timely and accurate weekly MI reporting is published reflecting actual and pipleline resourcing against plan
- Ensure lead times are communicated and understood for recruitment, vetting, contract renewal, etc ensuring programme resources are available when required or highlighted when risks or issues occur
- Represent PMO at regular resourcing forums and act as first port of call for all resourcing issues or questions
Core Skills and Experience
- Experience of recruitment and funding approval
- Proactive leader with proven ability to take ownership
- Ability to understand resourcing needs across the team
- Excellent organisational skills
- Excellent knowledge and experience of Excel, Powerpoint, Visio and Word
- Excellent stakeholder management, including facing off to senior management
- Ability to work under pressure
- Attention to detail and ability to carry out analysis
Desirable Skills and Experience
- Good knowledge of project management disciplines including change management, Risk & Issue Management and dependency management
- Skills in managing plans using Microsoft Project
- Ability to manage changing work priorities and deliver to deadlines
- Experience of having work in Lloyds and so good understanding and knowledge of their Project Management tools, methodology and Group wide systems ie, Order IT etc
- Previous experience in working in other general PMO's
Other Information
London based
Need to be independent/self starter with a pro-activite attitude and approach to meet the demanding role challenges and deliverables
Those thinking of applying should be confident of their ability to perform against the above criteria before doing so.
Please submit your CV to be considered.
We will contact you within 72 hours if your skills are relevant to our client's requirement. EA Consulting Group is acting as an Employment Business for this role under the CEAEBR 2003.