Lead Project Manager

Job Description

Job title: Lead Project ManagerLocation: UK-wide, no location specifiedContract length: 12 monthsOur client has been serving the households, businesses, and communities of Britain for over 250 years. They offer a comprehensive range of financial products and services - including current accounts, savings, mortgages, loans, and credit cards.End to end accountability for the delivery of sustainable client and commercial benefits within a diverse portfolio of Continuous Improvement (CI) activity. Responsible for defining, shaping, and delivering projects (some of which will be of high complexity)which add significant contribution to the achievement of business strategic targets. Strong stakeholder engagement is required (often cross function) to ensure delivery and benefit realisation. Motivating, organising, and leading a team within and across programmesand projects to ensure delivery within cost, quality, and timescale objectives. Roles at grade E will report into grade F or above.Key Accountabilities: Strong and Effective Engagement with senior stakeholders typically up to Head Of level to ensure delivery of CI programme/projects. Ensuring benefits are realised that adds significant contribution to the achievement of business strategic targets Ability to Manage the Delivery of multiple CI projects to realise agreed client and / or commercially led benefits. Discipline to adopt, and evidence use of, CI DMAIC project lifecycle standards Client Experience: Comprehensive understanding of the end-to-end client experience lifecycle and how this can be utilised to add maximum value to clients, colleagues, and the group Governance and Reporting: Establish and manage a project governance structure, with different levels of stakeholder input, to effectively control each project and workstream whilst exercising optimal control. Working closely with the Accountable Executiveto provide regular status reporting and solutions driven contingency plans. CI Project Control and Delivery: Delivers projects in line with agreed CI standards and methodologies, within which costs, benefits, risks, issues, quality, and delivery can be measured. Planning and Finance: Drives progress against the project plan; understands, challenges, and proactively manages the cost position; and acts to mitigate potential cost or time delays. Resource Management: Identifies and requests appropriate resources to work on the projects; defines clear roles and responsibilities for all team members including specific responsibility for production of all deliverables. Effective at collaborating with colleagues in Transformation (i.e., Architects, Business Analysts) to ensure that integration solutions are delivered Internal/External Relationships: Builds and maintainsSkills and Competencies: Qualification: Lean / Six Sigma qualified. Blackbelt / Greenbelt certified (or equivalent) Qualification: Project Management qualifications (i.e., Prince, Agile PM) preferred but not required Experience: up to 2 years experience of leading and delivering improvement projects Experience: Ideally min of 5-10 year within the financial services industry, with relevant examples of CI delivery Benefit Delivery: Evidence of delivering >£0.25m plus benefits per projectKey Performance Indicators Build the Business Evidence of the delivery of CI projects that realises client and/or commercial benefits for the Commercial business Finance Achievement of controllable costs and resources to target Delivery of projects to time, quality, and cost/benefit objectives Customer Stakeholder satisfaction

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