Senior Project Manager

We are looking for a Senior Project Manager to join our Change and IT family here at the West Brom to play a key role in the delivery of complex projects and take the lead in the line management of our Project Managers.

This is a crucial role that would suit someone who has delivered complex projects in the regulated industry space, has developed and grown teams and is a natural leader.

We can offer you a flexible role working across a range of transformational projects in the financial services space. We are a company that really values our employees, respect work life balance and enjoy delivering quality work.

Key Responsibilities are:

• Responsible for delivering multiple projects through a team of Project Managers and matrixed resources from various teams across the IT division, including but not exclusively, Architecture, Business Analysis, Technical Services Group, DBAs and Service
• Line Management responsibility, this will include Projects Managers
• Will work with the portfolio team, architecture colleagues as well as business and technical stakeholders to shape the delivery portfolio and incept the agreed projects. Ensuring customer and business impacts of proposed changes and solutions are understood and scoped
• Ownership of delivery to Cost, Time and Quality. Ensure that the delivery governance is agreed for the project and managed through the lifecycle. The management of risk and use of 1st Line Assurance as required will also be key
• Driving process improvement across the IT delivery, ownership of project delivery improvements as we as supporting the PMO and the technical teams as we embed a continuous improvement culture
• Own relationship with 3rd Party Suppliers, working from the initial engagement though the effective delivery of the project. This will include RFI / RFP, commercials, supplier management and building effective delivery models

The skills and experience required are:

• Extensive experience in delivering projects in the financial services or a similarly regulated space.
• Proven experience in delivering projects employing both Agile and Waterfall based methodologies and a project management certification such as PRINCE2, Scrum, PMP or comparable.
• Delivery and results focused, with the ability to build and manage client and customer relationships, includes the ability to report to steering committees comprised of senior executives
• Demonstrable experience in managing internal and external technology partners
• Breadth of knowledge across the infrastructure technology stack, including Cloud technologies

Why choose the West Brom?

At the West Brom we appreciate that our employees are unique individuals with differing needs depending on their specific circumstances and stages in life. When we say our people are the West Broms biggest asset that doesnt mean just viewing them as employees. We are proud of our heritage and absolutely believe that the West Brom is a great place to work.

The West Brom are a Disability Leader employer and encourage disabled applicants and applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply. We will consider requests to make adjustments to our recruitment process and offer a guaranteed interview to disabled applicants meeting the essential criteria. Should you require assistance please do not hesitate to email careers@westbrom.co.uk.

Check out our careers page to find out more about our culture, values and benefits. https://www.westbrom.co.uk/careers. If you share our values and our enthusiasm, then you will find a home at the West Brom

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Head Office: 2 Providence Place West Bromwich B70 8AF. www.westbrom.co.uk The West Brom is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority. Register no. 104877. the West Brom is a trading name of West Bromwich Building Society