Programme Manager - #1746142

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Programme Managers - Leeds, Yorkshire - hybrid 2/3 days per week

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

Nice-to-have skills

• Stakeholder Management
• Leeds, England
  
  

Work experience

• General Project Management
• General Management
  
  

Languages

• English