If you're an accomplished programme management practitioner looking to leverage your commercial acumen with your change management expertise, this is an excellent opportunity to join our Change Management team within Ulster Bank Transformation and play a significant role in delivering and embedding multiple large projects.
Ulster Bank Transformation takes one single view of all change activity across the bank, allowing joined up decisions on how to prioritise change to be made for the good of the bank, and maintaining a clear line of sight on customer, staff and financial benefits.
What you'll do
As Programme Manager you'll have a crucial role to play as you take responsibility for shaping, planning and managing the end-to-end delivery of multiple large and complex programmes and projects, which deliver our strategic and regulatory objectives.
You'll manage the full lifecycle from initial inception, through the development of the business case, mobilisation of a cross-business team and delivery of the project, including full benefits realisation. You'll also be responsible for all aspects of governance, including cost and risk management.
Managing multiple senior and Executive stakeholders across different businesses and functions will feature strongly, and your remit will include direct and matrix people management responsibilities.
In addition, you’ll also:
Have management responsibility for 8 – 10 direct reports and indirect delivery responsibility for up to c50 matrix resources
Oversee delivery of financial benefits in line with the business case and to agreed timelines
What you'll bring
As an experienced programme management practitioner with change management expertise, you'll be comfortable in operating across multiple delivery platforms, and experienced in project lifecycle planning and the delivery of large high priority projects, with a proven track record of end-to-end delivery.
Your knowledge of the banking industry will be comprehensive, and your experience will encompass the delivery of strategic projects that support a business strategy, its growth, and customer agenda.
Alongside the evident ability to manage multi disciplinary teams and third parties, you'll be highly organised, and an exceptional communicator. The competent use of standard project tools and MS applications will feature in your skill set, and you'll bring a solid understanding of risk concepts.
How we'll reward you
In return, we offer a competitive salary plus a 30% individually tailorable cash and benefit funding programme in Northern Ireland, and 31% in the Republic of Ireland. 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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At Ulster Bank, we are focused on becoming the number one bank for trust, customer service and advocacy by 2020. We are simplifying our business, concentrating on the areas where we can lead the market, and placing our customers at the heart of everything we do.
