The Requirements
If you're a passionate advocate for business change with strong commercial acumen, join is as a Portfolio Lead in the Ulster Bank (UB) Transformation function, and gain a wealth of excellent skills and exposure in this high impact position.
We'll be looking to you to ultimately improve they way we operate in terms of bank wide strategic, mandatory and discretionary projects, and you'll be working on a complex change portfolio with a likely investment spend in the region of £25-30m.
What you'll do
Reporting directly to the Head of UB Transformation, you'll operate at a strategic level, working in partnership with executives and senior managers taking accountability and ownership for a complex change portfolio within a relevant business function. Taking key accountability, you'll over-see the end-to-end delivery of all programmes in the allocated portfolio, which will be delivered through your leadership of a large talented team.
In this role you'll take accountability for:
The delivery of financial and non-financial benefits delivered in a portfolio of business, technical or regulatory programmes
Making sure the divisional change programme is understood from a strategic, risk, and change perspective
Engaging with stakeholders and collaborating with Technology to ensure successful delivery, and to mobilise and direct complex change programmes
Developing a team throughout the programme lifecycle
Driving senior level discussions to balance budget, benefits delivery and optimising improvement opportunities, as well as managing programme costs within the portfolio
You'll manage risk, keeping within a well defined appetite, and will keep procedural compliance at the forefront of your thinking.
What you'll bring
To succeed in this role, it's essential you can show:
A successful track record of leading and delivering complex change with tangible business results
An ability to structure and prioritise complex change portfolios
Strong commercial awareness
Proven end-to-end leadership skills, helping a team to meet successful business outcomes
It would be desirable to have a good understanding of the financial services industry, paired with proven knowledge of the systems, procedures and regulations surrounding this.
You'll have proven experience of leading large matrix teams, and ensuring high standards of delivery across all team members through performance management, engagement and capability initiatives. Additionally, you'll be an acknowledged change expert, and an experienced practitioner in the design, delivery and leadership of complex (technical or business) change programmes.
You'll have the ability to influence effectively at executive and senior manager level across Ulster Bank and the wider business, and will be experienced in shaping and delivering change, balancing the Stakeholder, Financial and Political dimensions expected in a role operating at this level.
Finally, It would also be an advantage to have a project management qualification (such as PRINCE), and experience of operating at a change leadership level.
How we'll reward you
In return, we offer a competitive salary plus a 31% individually tailorable cash and benefit funding programme. In addition, we provide a wide selection of exclusive lifestyle offers, development and learning programmes, services and support designed to help you manage and balance your work/life priorities. For more information on our benefits, please visit our website .
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