Lead Project Manager - Retail Banking - Collections & Recoveries - Hov

My client, a leading UK Retail bank, are currently looking for an accomplished Senior Project Manager to work on one of their major operational programmes - Collections and Recoveries.

PURPOSE OF THE PROGRAMME

The programme aims to rationalize the Business Operational Model by consolidating the Collections and Recoveries debt management platforms from 16 into a single shared strategic platform.

CORE SKILLS

Key Accountabilities:

- Programme/Project Set Up and Closure: Feeds into business study/programme proposals and business cases, ensuring alignment with business strategy; agreement of project benefits; and how these will be measured and tracked post implementation.
- Works with the business area to ensure an effective approach to business implementation, handover, and acceptance of the change.
- Governance and Reporting: Works closely with the Programme Leads to provide regular status reporting appropriately to different stakeholders and to agreed standards and recommend options for contingency plans.
- Project Delivery: Defines and implements a detailed delivery approach for each stage of the project life cycle, obtains acceptance and buy-in to the approach from all team members, and produces and owns all project management deliverables, using established project methodologies, to the right level of quality.
- Planning and Finance: Produces and owns the project plan. Controls, manages and monitors project timescales and budgets, reporting variances, escalating as appropriate to overcome delays, difficulties or cost over-runs, and re-forecasting where necessary.
- Resource Management: Tracks resource requirements (including roles and responsibilities), budget and FTE profile for areas of responsibility.
- Stakeholder Management: Identifies key project stakeholders and develops an appropriate stakeholder communication plan.
- Engages with a diverse group of stakeholders to influence direction of projects to meet the project milestones. 
- People and Self Development: Where appropriate, manages, motivates, develops and coaches assigned team members to create a high performing team.
- Risk: Continuously monitors projects for risk issues and regulatory compliance and takes appropriate steps to mitigate.

DESIRED SKILLS

Knowledge of Debt Manager system and Collection and Recoveries is desirable

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