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Programme Manager

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Program Manager
Location: Belfast, UK (Hybrid 2 days onsite/week)
Job Type: Sub-con/FTC
Mandatory Skills
- Agile (Value-Driven Delivery)
- Benefits Management
- Project Planning
- Resource Management
- Stakeholder Management
Role Attributes
Experience
- Broad and comprehensive understanding of concepts and principles within multiple disciplines or a fast-changing discipline
- Comprehensive understanding of how all value units, products, regions, legal entities collectively integrate alongside a comprehensive knowledge of the industry in order to contribute to the commercial objectives of the client
Business Commercial Knowledge
- Comprehensive understanding of how all value units, products, regions, legal entities collectively integrate alongside a comprehensive knowledge of the industry in order to contribute to the commercial objectives of the client
Leadership
- Management responsibilities through subordinate managers performing diverse activities cross-discipline (e.g., Finance, Technology, Banking)
Problem Solving
- Covers a wide range of activities that require evaluative judgments based on the analysis of factual and qualitative information in complicated, perhaps novel situations
Innovation
- Proactive in developing ideas continuously searching for improvements in techniques which add value to the business and has full responsibility for implementation
Accountability and Decision Making
- Latitude to make decisions outside of established procedures but within a policy framework. Broad guidelines are available. Role implements strategy set by others
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Strategic Responsibility
- Creates business plans for own teams and expected to contribute to value unit, region, product, legal entity strategy


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Communication
Internal Communication Skills Required
- Ability to guide, persuade, and influence others through the developed skills of communication and diplomacy
External Communication Skills Required
- Likely to be involved in both internal and external negotiations which will have a major impact on the function and possibly the entire business unit
Attributes
- 12 years experience in programme, portfolio, or transformation delivery including a sustained track record of leading large, complex, and globally distributed change portfolios to agreed outcomes, timelines, budgets, risk parameters, and benefits
- Extensive experience directing large-scale platform and data migration transformations including SAS environments. Able to govern option analysis, target-state direction, roadmap development, environment readiness testing, parallel running, cutover, backout planning, and decommissioning across multiple programmes or workstreams
- Deep understanding of SAS migration dependencies including code remediation, data lineage, reconciliation, control requirements, operational readiness, and post-migration assurance. Able to challenge technical proposals, assess tradeoffs, and make informed enterprise-level delivery, investment, and risk decisions
- Significant experience leading complex enterprise-wide technology transformations across multiple business areas, platforms, and geographies with accountability for overall transformation outcomes rather than only individual project or workstream delivery
- Proven ability to own transformation governance, enterprise scope, benefits realization, RAID oversight, cross-programme dependencies, stage gates, assurance, and audit-ready documentation
- Confident driving timely decisions, accountability, and delivery pace across multiple workstreams, programmes, and global teams
- Proven experience influencing and aligning executive and senior stakeholders across business, engineering, operations, risk, security, control functions, and suppliers. Able to secure agreement on target-state priorities, funding, sequencing, readiness, adoption, and material delivery tradeoffs
- Extensive experience delivering complex change within regulated financial institutions with a strong understanding of risk management, security controls, operations, audit, and regulatory expectations. Able to govern risk acceptance exceptions and remediation at transformation level
- Experience owning or contributing to investment cases, financial forecasts, resource strategies, delivery capacity
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