Competitive
Birmingham, England
Contract, Variable

Programme Manager

Posted by Lorien.

Programme Manager

Our leading Financial Services client is looking for highly skilled Programme Manager to join their Edinburgh or Midlands based team for a 6 months initial contract.

Key Skills

  • Strong blend of Technology Change Delivery expertise, commercial acumen and hands-on experience of leading a portfolio to transform IT delivery, ideally within Financial Services
  • Previous experience of working with senior IT stakeholders, architects and business executives to develop application strategy and translate into the practical shaping and execution of change delivery
  • Experience of driving commercial outcomes through a relentless focus on IT simplification, rationalisation and decommissioning
  • Track record of successful collaboration and problem-solving in a complex stakeholder environment with a wide range of suppliers
  • Excellent communication skills with the presence to influence transformation outcomes across the business, ability to lead the IT SLT on the journey with clear presentation of optionality
  • Strong orchestration and organisation skills, pulling together multiple cross-domain capabilities into a unified delivery team
  • Strong supplier management skills coupled with commercial experience and understanding of application service models
  • Experience of managing change budgets of £6m+ with delivery efficiency, control and optimisation of costs
  • A strategic and long-term thinking, able to plan for the future while delivering on short-term commitments and hitting agreed outcomes
  • Ability to identify risks to the business from any projects and developing risk mitigation plans to ensure minimum adverse impact to the business during the delivery of projects.
  • Conducting independent post-project reviews to identify lessons learned and continuously improve the project management process across the business.
  • Relevant Project/Programme/Portfolio Management qualifications/Change Management (Agile, Prince2, Programme Management, Lean etc. MoR).
  • Knowledge of working in a complex technology multi-vendor environment

If this is of interest, please submit your CV.

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Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.