Location: Knutsford, hybrid, 2 days from office

Duration: until December 31st

Contract inside IR35

Job description:

• Managing all projects and programmes being delivered across the Core Platforms
• To define and own the content and direction of change projects in order to support the high performance continuous delivery of change projects.

Key Accountability:

• Create & maintain plan (from Product Owner roadmap) and Kanban management
• Cards, Payments and banking experience is required
• Folks with product owner experience is an added advantage
• Establish & drive delivery disciplines, cadence & standards for the feature team
• Own the issues/blockers status & resolution, and same for identifying/managing risks facing the feature team (may be reliant on support from others to mitigate)
• Own the delivery status report out and accuracy of the facts
• Vendor relationship management - running RFP's and contract management
• Control financial & resource forecasts & actuals to budget
• Overall responsibility for delivering the product to time, cost & quality. Drives the team to ensure velocity is maintained/changes managed in line with expectations
• Ensure wider organisation is engaged & aligned to feature team needs, including timely/pre-emptive governance, approvals, dispensations

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

• Effectively provide change management and project management expertise to change projects to which the Project Manager is assigned.
• Experience of Agile delivery methodologies and practical experience of managing sprint-based deliveries
• Possess expertise in change management methods and tools, in particular the Change Management change management method and toolkit.
• Understand the roles, responsibilities and value-add of Client Change Management.
• Influencing/networking - developing internal and external business relationships and using own knowledge, skills and experience to influence others opinions and actions.
• Analysis, creativity and innovation - able to apply practical solutions to business critical problems.
• Understand at a high level the interface between complex business needs and the complex legal and regulatory environment in which the business operates.
• Ability to juggle priorities, multi-task and flawlessly execute at speed.
• Sound commercial judgment and overall understanding of the Financial Services Industry, particularly the business impact of the regulatory environment.
• Understand and comply with the requirements of Strategic Change Execution Board Standard, Group Change Governance framework and Group-mandated Business Change methods, standards and tools