Job Title: Sustainability Project Manager (PM)
Location: London
Contract Length: through to 31st of March 2025
Purpose of Job
1.Provides the appropriate Project Management technical expertise for the ESG Regulatory Disclosure Project
2. Responsible for bringing the organisation into compliance by driving and delivering the required change benefits and goals across EMEA to the required quality standards, within the specified timeframe and to the agreed budget with minimal impact on the business.
3. Ensures that all projects have the appropriate governance, transparency and oversight. Ensures that the rationale, progress and decision making is robustly documented and evidenced to withstand regulatory scrutiny.
This role is aimed at an experienced project manager that has a passion for Sustainability & climate change mitigation and would like to drive impact using their project management expertise.
Accountabilities & Responsibilities
- Responsible for managing all project lifecycle activities associated with delivering complex projects medium-term in length, impact multiple departments or offices and are medium to high in risk, scope and complexity.
- Accountable for managing the project lifecycle and budget in line with the banks EMEA's Project Management Methodology, consistently demonstrating sound judgement and ownership of the project process and ensuring that all deliverables are aligned with the banks objectives and commensurate with our business profile.
- Lead, influence, motivate and manage diverse project teams across the EMEA organization, including representatives from a wide variety of departments to ensure timely delivery of required results with least possible impact on the bank's business and customers.
- Plan and drive completion of all project artefacts including the business case, regulatory requirements, project roadmap, budget, testing, deliverables implementation and handover into business as usual.
- Identify and then judge when to escalate risks and issues and their associated mitigation plans to the C-level Project Sponsor and appropriate committees (SteerCo) to prevent impact or additional risk.
- Achieve the correct governance and transparency for the project so that the appropriate oversight is achieved.
- When required ensure that all deliverables achieve compliance for the organisation, meet the objectives of the project, are in line with best market practise and can withstand formal regulatory scrutiny.
- Recognize and rapidly adapt to ongoing change during the project. Document internal and external impacts including impact on existing policies and associated procedures, formulate and present suitable mitigation plans and ensure all updates are completed to impacted areas.
- Maintain focus on delivering and realising the project's benefits
Knowledge, Skills, Experience & Qualifications* Education & Qualifications
The role requires the candidate to be educated to degree level or have significant specialist knowledge and
Industry recognised modern project management qualification such as PMP or APM preferred.
- Experience & Knowledge
- knowledge and experience of financial services, markets and banking activities and the surrounding regulatory framework.
- prior experience of successfully delivering projects within financial services
- ideally, an ESG-related qualification or sustainability experience in financial services
- strong interpersonal skills including ability to lead and motivate, set the vision for the project, gain team and organisational buy-in, anticipate and resolve conflict, negotiate and coach.
- strong, effective communication skills both written and oral, including diplomacy in offering challenge.
- knowledge of effective team building and some experience of team management skills.
- practical and willing to get involved in tasks, when necessary, to ensure objectives are achieved.
- ability to work to multiple deadlines and under pressure
Please apply with an up-to-date CV which must show evidence of the above to be considered. Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you.
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