Project Manager - Pendeford/Edinburgh - £356/day

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a Project supporting the Commerical Banking Operations' function of one of the UK's largest banks, aimed at reviewing current strategy and identifying requirements to support future customer needs and growth.

This role will require a lead project manager with a sound understanding of standard Change disciplines and a proven ability to work with stakeholders at all levels. The role will be working with a core team of SMEs from the Commercial Banking Operations Business and under the direction of a Change Lead. The project manager may also be required to work with other business areas/divisions. The role also requires the project manager to provide guidance and facilitation to shape potential change to business areas utilising project management tools. Other key skills are effective communication, self motivated, proactive with attention to detail and business partnering. The role will require working between Pendeford, Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Perform management of full project life cycle for a series of improvement workstreams:

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Undertake initial impact assessments, define the scope and deliverables for workstreams
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Plan and monitor workstreams. Take responsibility for overall progress and use of resources and initiate corrective action where necessary
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Manage a project RAID log, project plan, resource tracker and feed into regular risk and governance calls
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Feed updates into overall communications plan, stakeholder plan and provide regular updates to key stakeholders
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Report into and escalate to the Programme Manager for each workstream
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Be responsible for change control and Lessons Learned reporting and implementation
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Be responsible for overall project governance and administration
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The successful candidate will be able to display a good understanding of change management and well versed in project methodology.

DESIRED SKILLS

Experience of:

- Change associated with Operational areas and E2E transformation
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Customer focused/driven Programmes/Projects
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Target Operating Model work