Job Description
Our wonderful client is on the lookout for a PROGRAMME MANAGER to join the team. Our client is a well known, established international Wealth Management company that empowers financial institutions to shape their future. This is an exciting time to join the team! Please see below for a full job description.
Reporting To: COO
Responsibility for Others: Project Manager(s)
Location: Horsham
Hours of Work Monday to Friday 9.00am to 5.30pm with 1 hour for lunch
Any Special Requirements Some need to travel to clients across the UK (hours, travel)
Overall Purpose of the Job:
Manage and Coordinate multiple projects/programmes to ensure each is aligned with the overall business aims and priorities. Create, organise, manage and report on programmes to support the company's strategic direction.
Key Activities & Responsibilities:
- Full accountability for programme governance
- Stakeholder management - internal and external
- Manage the programme / project budgets / change financials - subject to oversight by Group Finance
- Work with key business leads to deliver end-to-end change including embedding change practices
- Ensure any introduced change is future-proofed to meet our Vision; challenge the requirements, apply common sense to prioritisation, and guide the business through the change processes
- Liaise with Project and Line Managers to appoint project leads and team members to individual projects taking into consideration BAU requirements
- Coordinate individual projects and manage the dependencies between them
- Ensure that projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget
- Set milestones against activities, report progress against them, identifying challenges or delivery risks early
- Develop and implement evaluation methods to assess each programme's strengths and identify areas of improvement
- Use appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule and costs
- Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques
- Plan the global resource across projects, identifying any risks, conflicts or issues
- Maintain programme risk and issue logs, with regular analysis and reports for programme reviews
Required Skills/Experience:
- Previous experience within project / programme environment & Change management - minimum 5 years
- Degree or equivalent in Business Management
- Proven experience of planning and executing strategic business objectives
- Strong stakeholder management and engagement skills are essential
- Strong leadership, negotiation and influencing skills
- Ability to control and manage budgets / P & L ownership experience
- Demonstrable experience of leading and developing a team of project resources
- Experience working in a client facing role and comfortable overseeing client changes
- Understanding of principles and methods for management of multiple projects
- Ability to problem solve and use of initiative in complex project environment
- IT literate - for a variety of tasks including Excel, word, power point - MS Project or equivalent
- Proven ability to deliver in a timely and professional manner
- Excellent communication skills; verbal, written and presentation
- Good organisational skills
Desirable Skills/Experience:
- Financial Services industry experience
- Experience of supporting multiple project management
- Experience of a variety of delivery life cycles/approaches i.e. Agile/SAFe Agile/Waterfall
- Experience of project management methodology - Prince2, Lean, Six Sigma approaches
- Experienced with risk management and quality assurance controls
Personal characteristics:
- Highly motivated, flexible and adaptable
- Creative ability to find solutions to complex issues / Solution focused
- Team player / collaborative approach
- Resilient
- The drive for continuous personal improvement
- Ability to motivate others
- Positive outlook on work and the activities presented
- Delivery focused
