Change Project Manager - Various Divisions (GC/I)


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Lloyds Banking Group

Listed on

14th January 2015

Location

London

Salary/Rate

Negotiable

Salary Notes

Negotiable

Type

Permanent

Start Date

ASAP

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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/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 Project Managers in;

Customer Operations - Edinburgh, Hove, Leeds/Halifax, Manchester/Chester

Group Security & Fraud - London and Edinburgh

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

HR - Halifax

Insurance - Bristol and Edinburgh

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

Retail - Leeds/Halifax

Project Managers within LBG Are required to manage and control the delivery of a small project or workstream components within a large project, taking responsibility for achieving a defined output in support of a business goal.

As a Project Manager you will;

-Ensure delivery to agreed business plans within cost, quality and timescale objectives, and ensures that the benefits in the business Projects/workstreams involve a strong specialist knowledge or require shaping by job holder

- Establish and communicate the need for and benefits of significant change

- Build capability of self, team or processes, learning from experience and continually looking for ways to improve

- Deliver multiple workstreams or a small project to successful outcomes

- Use data to help lead in a way that reinforces the organisations priorities

- Monitor performance, taking remedial action when required to ensure results are achieved

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

Role accountabilities;

- Agrees a clearly defined delivery approach for own area of responsibility.

- Reports progress and status to the appropriate stakeholders on a timely basis, including identification and escalation of key risks and issues.

- Follows the appropriate elements of the LBG project delivery lifecycle for own area of responsibility, including contributing to/completing formal reviews at appropriate points.

- Implements appropriate project support processes to manage issues, identify and mitigate risks, monitor dependencies and record assumptions, and ensure that the right level of quality is achieved in all deliverables.

- Produces a project or workstream plan defining the deliverable milestones, tasks and activities; understands the project critical path and how own area of responsibility impacts this; monitors progress against project/workstream plan.

- Provides support to the control and management of project budgets and resource costs, reporting variances and escalating as appropriate to overcome delays, difficulties or cost over-runs.

- Identifies key project or workstream stakeholders for their area of responsibility and contributes to the appropriate stakeholder communication plan.

- Builds and maintains effective working and influencing relationships with appropriate colleagues, proactively answering queries and following up actions with stakeholders.

To qualify, you'll need experience;

Leading a range of projects, working with third party suppliers and managing stakeholders

Supported by a qualification such as APM or similar methodology

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

Please specify on application; preferred location and division.

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!

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