Project Manager - Credit Cards - Cardiff

Our client, one of the UK's largest banks, is seeking an experienced Project Manager to manage a number of projects which will drive income benefit and cost reduction across the Credit Card portfolio.

ROLE ACCOUNTABILITIES

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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.
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Works with the business area to ensure an effective approach to business implementation, handover, and acceptance of the change.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Resource Management: Tracks resource requirements (including roles and responsibilities), budget and FTE profile for areas of responsibility.
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Stakeholder Management: Identifies key project stakeholders and develops an appropriate stakeholder communication plan.
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Engages with a diverse group of stakeholders to influence direction of projects to meet the project milestones. Typically up to and including Grade G level.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

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We require a project manager who can demonstrate experience in managing medium complexity projects effectively in terms of time, cost and scope. Ideally the candidate should have experience in delivering change within the Credit Card industry.
- You will require a good understanding of Credit Card operating models including delivery of change through 3rd party suppliers including Credit Card schemes

Please note that, due to the high level of applications we receive, we are not able to provide individual responses. If you have not heard from us within 2 working days, please assume that you have not been successful on this occasion.

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