Project Manager
PAYE Agency worker contract (Inside IR35)
Hybrid – Sheffield based role – 3 days per week in office
Up to £500 per day
The CTO Agile Project Managers lead and manage large scale complex global strategic change projects/programmes for the bank and changes with the business and delivery partners (circa $15m + budgets, matrixed teams, multiple business lines). They act as a role model, leading as one global team, demonstrating active leadership and communication. As a senior leader they need to be able to operate at executive level, across regions and global businesses.
Project Managers are responsible for deploying the banks Change Frameworks within their project/programme and instilling excellent project/programme disciplines within their project/programme and across CTO and the bank group. The role holder has end to end responsibility for all aspects of the project/programme, including definition, planning, execution & implementation, governance & control, financial, resource and change management delivering projects/programmes for CTO Connectivity Transformation & Change platform. They are also responsible for effective handover of the project/ programme into Business as Usual operations to support effective benefits realisation.
Responsibilities:
* Accountable for implementing Agile values and framework in projects and programs.
* Collect and review Scrum artifacts to ensure the expectations of Product Owners are met.
* Drive Scrum-of-Scrums for dependent projects/teams to identify impediments and resolve.
* Conduct backlog refinement with Product Owner, Scrum team and other relevant stakeholders.
* Review and set the velocity for the team.
* Prepare and present burn-down charts and dashboards to the leadership to secure their buy-in.
* Own the JIRA Boards and ensure they reflect the true statuses of the projects.
* Conduct CI/CD pipelines workshop with Product Owners and other stakeholders.
* build strong relationships with senior stakeholders within IT, Global Businesses, Finance
* work closely with their respective Portfolio Manager, the Connectivity Transformation & Change team and their senior stakeholders to ensure alignment of their project/programme with the wider change portfolio and group strategy, values and behaviour
* provide board level overview of progress, lead and direct multidisciplinary teams across all global businesses, global functions and regions
* Status reporting through steerco’s with stakeholders as part of governance.
* Provide financial analysis, including being able to contextualise financial data into business activities and conclusions
* Ensure the adherence to financial processes and procedures at project/programme level.
* Own the identification and escalation of any budgetary related risks, issues and opportunities to portfolio/function as appropriate.
Experience/Qualifications:
* Outstanding project and programme management experience which include communications capabilities, decision making and problem solving skills, lateral thinking, analytical and interpersonal skills.
* Excellent understanding and proven experience of Programme and Project Management methodologies including Waterfall and Agile.
* Ability to direct and influence people in a matrix orientated environment and establish working partnerships at a junior and senior organizational level.
* Proven experience of positive, challenging interactions with Senior Executives across the business.
* Outstanding relationship management, collaboration and influencing skills.
* Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills with a proven ability to communicate effectively and confidently at all levels across the Group.
* Change agent with proven ability of implementing large scale organizational, procedural, technology and people related change programmes.
* Proven ability to articulate complex issues concisely and in simple language to recognise to the global remit of this role.
* Detail orientated.
* Strong financial analytical background and proven ability in financial/analytical reasoning, including being able to contextualise financial data into business activities and conclusions.
* Experience of delivering large scale change programmes within a Technology organization, with Infrastructure experience.
* High level of drive and motivation to ensure delivery of a broad range of outputs simultaneously across the bank.
* Experience of leading and managing teams with proven track record of working with diverse, cross functional teams that are located regionally and worldwide.
* Experience of driving continuous improvement
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