Change Lead Project Manager - Various Divisions (GC/I)

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 Lead Project Managers based in;

Group Security and Fraud - London and Edinburgh
(Experience/working knowledge of Cyber Security and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity framework is preferred)

Retail - Halifax and Bristol

Digital - London

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

HR - London and Halifax

Commercial - London and Edinburgh

Insurance - Edinburgh
(UML literate, Agile methodology, finance operations, general ledger and investment accounting knowledge is desirable)

Can you:- - Direct and control the delivery of diverse cross divisional projects?
- Shape and lead major change initiatives which implement business strategies?
- Optimise resources within projects to ensure delivery to agreed business plans within cost, quality and timescale objectives?
- Ensure that the benefits identified in the business case can be realised?
- Lead a team of project professionals as a high performing project team?

You'll be responsible for everything from building relationships with stakeholders and agreeing project milestones, to controlling budgets and managing risks to deliver projects successfully.

Succeed here and you can look forward to taking the next step up the career ladder, or broadening your experience across even bigger and more complex change project and programmes.

To qualify, you'll need experience;

- Leading a range of significant projects, working with third party suppliers and managing stakeholders
- Supported by a qualification such as APM or similar methodology
- Complexity, technical knowledge with a degree of supervision and influence
- Scope of influence external to your own area
- Managing more complex projects/workstreams with a cross functional impact

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 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.
- 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.
- Builds and maintains effective working and influencing relationships with appropriate colleagues, proactively answering queries and following up actions with stakeholders.
- Timely and accurate completion of own project deliverables, assessing and managing risks.

Succeed here and you can look forward to taking the next step up the career ladder, or broadening your experience across even bigger and more complex change project and programmes.

In return we offer a market leading benefits package which includes bonus related pay scheme, car allowance, 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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