Job Description
Programme Managers - Leeds, Yorkshire
Our client, a financial services provider has exciting opportunities for experienced Programme Managers to join their transformation team to support a programme of digital and business change. The purpose of this role is to provide leadership to the Project Managers, lead the end-to-end delivery of one or more programmes aligned to their business strategy and ensure project outcomes are fully adopted to enable benefits realisation.
Responsibilities
· To build and maintain strong relationships with the business, senior stakeholders
and external stakeholders and the PMO to ensure the delivery and governance of a programme or
programmes of change to agreed scope, time, cost and quality
· Work with Programme sponsors to define measures and gain business buy in for adoption of outcomes to ensure programme benefits are defined, agreed, and accepted and can be tracked.
· To effectively champion and support change processes and tools to ensure best practice is adopted across the wider change team
· To provide and manage appropriately controlled environments and release management process to support change programmes
· Quality Management of the Delivery Approach
· Keep abreast of evolving legislation and best practice - maintain compliance with relevant regulations.
Skills
* Extensive experience of having delivered a wide range of different types of programmes/projects - eg technology, business change etc at programme level using waterfall methodology
* Demonstrated experience of management of project managers and other key resources
* Financial services/insurance experience would be highly advantageous, but we will consider experience gained in other structured, regulated environments with strong governance requirements
* Significant budgetary responsibility for at least one major programme of work at a time
* Demonstrate experience of having managed resources effectively to deliver a programme
* Proven stakeholder management skills
* Demonstrate how previous programmes of work delivered have benefitted the business
This is a hybrid role requiring 2/3 days per week in the office so proximity to the location is key.