Project Management
Project Management jobs are accountable for successful delivery of the project and ensuring benefits realisation. Projects may be standalone or part of a wider programme of activity and may be in project teams as well as BAU teams. Project Managers manage change through projects which are established to deliver a specific outcome, on time. The projects will typically have a clearly defined output, fixed start, and end date with a well-defined development/delivery path. Projects may be stand alone or part of a Programme.
Project Management jobs may have reports, these may be Business Analysts, Work stream leads, Programme Management Office (PMO) staff or admin support staff. Project Management jobs may report to a Programme Managers or a Senior Project Manager or may report to a Business Manager.
Main Activities:
- Plans effectively around delivery constraints and optimizes the plan to maximize benefits and minimize risk. Develops the plan within constraints, considering the delivery approach, key milestones and dependencies within the plan, requirements and scope, effort and resources, budgets, and quality.
- Ensures the baselined scope, requirements, benefits, schedule, and budget are managed as outlined in Business Transformation Frameworks. Identifies and intervenes where there is slippage and variance from plan.
- Proactively monitors project execution to effectively identify risks/issues/dependencies as they arise throughout the project lifecycle. Takes ownership of critical issues and ensures resolution within agreed timescales and implements mitigating plans against identified risks and issues. Escalates when needed to the Programme Manager.
- Collaborates and builds positive stakeholder and business partner relationships providing regular updates to resolve high priority issues affecting the project.
- Obtains buy-in from the project sponsor, Steering Committee and other business partner stakeholders for all key project plans, commitments, and changes including requirements, quality assurance plans, budget, schedule, and scope changes.
- Analyses management reports and derives insights from it to drive the right business decisions.
- Sets the pace and operating rhythm, driving a culture of achievement and ensures pace by identifying and removing barriers to project success.
- Promotes pace and energy within the team and leads by example.
- Keeps focus on the medium- and long-term goals and the Group’s values particularly when under short term pressure.
- Manages change and implementation within the business to ensure the change lands well and sticks, contributing to benefits realization.
- Manages project closure and handover to the business.
- Mobilizes the project team and allocates tasks and roles.
Skills
- PMP certification or training desirable
- Prince2 - Optional
- Strong usage of Office suite – Excel, PowerPoint, Word.
- Agile / SAFe training or certification – Optional
- For process controller & RPA command center roles, bachelor’s in computer science preferred.
- Project management skills and experience
- People manager and broad experience in managing teams of different work streams.
- Examples of the delivery of on time and on budget projects that achieve business case stated outcomes – a driver with bias towards delivery at pace and controlling project outcomes.
- In depth experience of working in a banking environment and change projects
- Stakeholder management experience, especially impactful communication, influencing and running project governance Implementation, change management and benefits realization.
- Implementation, change management and benefits realization.
- Ability to work with a high degree of autonomy but is also a good team player.
- Confident, articulate and have a high degree of personal integrity.
- Experience in metrics and providing management intelligence (MI) or other reporting highly required.
- Experience of report generation, presentations to senior stakeholders, data collations, data reviews
