Change PMO Manager - Various Decisions (GC/I)

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Our vision is to make Lloyds Banking Group the best bank for customers. As the UK's largest retail and commercial bank, we have a footprint that touches nearly every community and household in the UK. That gives us a big responsibility to support the UK economy, and to put customers at the heart of everything we do. To achieve this, we also need to be the best bank for our colleagues and our communities - and we have a clear strategy in place to make this a reality. We are building on our many strengths: iconic brands, strong heritages and great people. To unlock the great potential in our business, we are becoming more efficient, more transparent, and more responsive to customers. Already the UK's largest community investor, we are giving even more back. Above all, we are putting customers first.

Due to the sheer pace and scale of change taking place across our business, we are embarking on an exciting period of growth.

We have an unrivalled opportunity to grow our Group Change Capability to ensure we deliver priority change programmes into our business and for our customers.

Are you a Business Analyst, PMO Analyst/Manager, Project and Programme Manager, Business Testing Analyst/Manager or Business Architect?

If so, we have a wide range of opportunities to join us and enable us to continue to build on our foundations, uplift our change capability even further and create the best banking business change community.

We are seeking talented PMO Managers based in;

Group Security & Fraud - Edinburgh

(Experience/working knowledge of Cyber Security and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity framework is preferred.)

Digital - London

(Experience of digital delivery (online & mobile) in a matrix managed project environment, underpinned by a strong understanding of digital technologies and delivery approaches suitable in an agile environment of rapid change)

Insurance - Bristol and Edinburgh

(UML literate and preferrable that you are familiar with Agile methodology. Finance operations, general ledger and investment accounting knowledge is preferable.)

Risk - London

(Experience of risk or regulatory projects is preferred)

Retail - Bristol and Halifax

Can you:-

- Manage and control a team to provide the governance, reporting, finance, planning and support services for a large / medium project or portfolio of smaller projects

- Ensure effective delivery within cost, quality and timescale objectives.

- Optimise PMO resources across the project whilst imbedding common PMO methodologies and processes to assist effective delivery within cost, quality and timescale objectives

You'll be responsible for everything from building relationships with stakeholders, gathering and building requirements, to providing strong PMO knowledge and managing risks to help deliver projects successfully.

Role Accountabilties;

- Ensures all Business Case, Project Management Report (PMR) and Stage Gate documentation is produced to Group Standards and ensures the effective close down of programmes and projects

- Ensures programme/project benefits are defined and agreed with the business, and that mechanisms to measure and track these through to post-implementation are in place.

- Provides clear, impartial, comprehensive and relevant visibility of cumulative status and progress, by co-ordinating the production and collation of status reports and relevant management information across projects and workstreams and ensuring these are captured within the Change Management Toolkit (CMT) and included at relevant programme management/governance forums.

- Uses established project methodologies to control, log, manage and monitor project timescales, costs, risks, assumptions, change control, issues and dependencies; benefit realisation, milestones and outcomes; stakeholders and communications; and budgets.

- Defines and implements the overall planning approach, obtains acceptance and buy-in to the approach from all stakeholders and ensures planning standards and guidelines are adhered to

- Ensures detailed project/programme plans are in place to the right level of quality and that progress is monitored to project completion.

- Resource Management: Ensures all resourcing requirements are identified and utilisation of available resource is optimised in delivery of the plan.

- Engages with a diverse group of stakeholders to influence required actions to meet the project milestones and address risk, regulatory and financial issues.

- Builds and maintains external and internal networks to identify best practice and to build the profile and capability of the PMO and change management Community.

To qualify, you'll need experience of playing an active role in a range of significant projects, working with third party suppliers and managing stakeholders, ideally supported by qualification such as APM or similar methodology.

In return we offer a market leading benefits package which includes a highly competitive bonus related pay scheme, company car/allowance, private healthcare, contributory pension, competitive holiday and our "flex" benefits scheme.

If you feel you could make a difference and want to become part the UK's largest bank, there really couldn't be a more exciting time to join us!

Please specify on application; location and business division

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