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Project Manager: Group Strategic Programmes
Join a digital first bank that’s powered by people.
Our technology team builds innovative digital solutions rapidly and at scale to deliver the next generation of banking services for our customers around the world.
You’ll have an impact on bringing digital-first banking to our customers by defining the future state architecture vision and strategies for our Global Businesses and Global Functions.
You’ll be developing business, data, software, and integration architecture standards to manage processes, systems, and technology complexity across the HSBC Group. Through dynamic, agile collaboration you’ll work closely with business partners to translate their requirements into integrated solutions that can be deployed globally using consistent service patterns for ease of deployment, support, and enhancement.
Reporting to the Head of Strategic Programmes - Technology, the role will provide project management expertise across a group-level technology architecture function and a team of strategic change delivery experts to provide technical oversight and ensure architectural alignment of the portfolio of strategic programmes that are relating to strategic Integration and Separation that impact the group HPP/SCP lists, including any group merger, acquisition and/or divestment activities.
The role will manage oversee the Strategic Programmes book of work across these projects, providing insight and governance on behalf of the Head of Strategic Programmes IT and ensure the strategic programme team capability is sufficiently staffed with appropriate capability to meet the demand of the book of work.
As an HSBC employee in the UK, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.
In this role you will:
• Programme/Project Set Up and Closure: Provides support to project set up and closure activities, including Business Case and Project Status Report preparation, and oversee Closure activities.
• Governance and Reporting: Oversees production and collation of status reports and relevant management information, ensuring the right level of quality is achieved, across projects and workstreams, ensuring these are captured within our Project Management Processes, and included at relevant programme management/governance forums.
• Monitoring and Control: Enforces established project methodologies to control, log, manage and monitor project timescales, resources, costs, risks, assumptions, change control, issues and dependencies; benefit realisation, milestones and outcomes; and budgets, ensuring the right level of quality is achieved and escalating as appropriate to overcome delays, difficulties or cost over-runs. Carries out data compilation, research and analysis and makes recommendations for improvement to processes.
• Planning: Apply knowledge and expertise in assisting with defining and implementing the overall planning approach, obtaining acceptance and buy-in to the approach from all stakeholders and ensures planning standards and guidelines are adhered to across project (s)/programme, providing guidance and coaching to colleagues as appropriate. In addition, the role-holder will provide oversight to ensure that detailed project/programme plans are in place to the right level of quality and that progress is monitored to project completion.
• Finance and Resource management: Manages the collation, preparation and updating of financial and resource data, including budgets, actuals and forecasting; ensuring that data is accurate, relevant and to right level of quality.
To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:
• Candidates are expected to work at an expert level in Quality Assurance, Stakeholder Management, Risk & Issue Management, Communication, Reporting, Governance Design & Execution, Portfolio Planning, Oversight, Business Case Management, Scope Management, Cost & Benefit Management, Resource Planning and Management
• Change delivery practices including a working knowledge of a range of methodologies.
• Demonstrated experience in strategic planning, business transformation
• Excellent numerical, analytical skills and strategic business insight to understand complex challenges and facilitate workable solutions.
• Proven ability to influence, negotiate and build relationships with stakeholders at all levels across cross-geographical teams.
• Be a strong communicator both verbal and written and experience interfacing with stakeholders at all levels.
• Be an active listener and display good inter-personal, leadership and communication skills, able to work with individuals at all levels.
• Have the ability to build and maintain highly effective working relationships with colleagues, clients and third parties
• Strong attention to detail ensuring high-level PMO solutions are robust, optimal and effectively
This role is based in Birmingham or Sheffield .
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