Programme Manager
| Posting date: | 09 April 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 May 2025 |
| Location: | Edinburgh, EH12 1HQ |
| Company: | NatWest Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | R-00253856-OTHLOC-GBR-5FEDI034 |
Summary
Join us as a Programme Manager
- This is an opportunity to put your skills to the test in an exciting new career challenge as you define and lead a strategic portfolio of strategic change ISO20022 Pan Bank Programme
- You’ll own all programme plans, controls, resource plans and progress reporting, keeping a constant focus and challenge on delivering customer value
- Joining a fast paced and forward thinking environment, you’ll benefit from valuable stakeholder exposure, and will gain great recognition for you and your work
What you'll do
In your new role, you’ll be accountable for the ISO20022 programme and project lifecycles to deliver sustainable business and customer outcomes, while ensuring all governance, risk, finances and resources are managed effectively across a range of delivery methodologies. You’ll prepare a financial business case for the programme with a clear line of sight to customer value being delivered in accordance with the investment portfolio and funding requirements.
You’ll be delivering customer value by defining the programme, including the preferred methodology working with a range of stakeholders, while making sure they follow the appropriate objectives, structure and scope.
You’ll also be:
- Working with pan bank delivery teams across all franchise and functions to make sure the appropriate resources, with the right skills and capabilities to deliver customer value, are assigned to deliver the programme
- Building, managing and maintaining a positive working relationship with senior stakeholders across multiple franchises, domains and functions, influencing decision making in line with business objectives
- Understanding the impacts other programmes or domain backlogs may have and manage the dependencies
The skills you'll need
We’ll look to you to bring knowledge and experience of programme and portfolio management theories, models and practices, such as Agile and DevOps environments. You’ll have the ability to employ key problem solving strategies and methods to unblock delivery impediments.
You’ll also need:
- Experience of delivering strategic technology transformation programmes at scale and leading senior change leads
- Experience in planning, using industry wide toolsets such as Planview, MSP and Jira
- Experience of managing and controlling costs to a budget
- To be a very capable communicator with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly, with good collaboration and stakeholder management skills
- Excellent collaboration and and stakeholder management skills at a Pan Bank scale
- Experience in managing delivery team leads in a matrix format across key franchise and functions
- Previous experience in payments delivery