Programme or Project Office Lead
| Posting date: | 25 November 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 December 2025 |
| Location: | London, EC2M 4AA |
| Company: | NatWest Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | R-00268584 |
Summary
Join us as a Programme or Project Office Lead
Joining a highly collaborative team, this is a unique opportunity to make a difference to our customers and the bank
Through strong leadership and management skills, you’ll be establishing and running the programme or project office
As you deliver the integrity of the programme or project, you’ll have the opportunity to build your network across the bank and gain great exposure for you and your work
You'll work from home some of the time, but you'll also spend a significant amount of time working from an office or hub
What you'll do
In this leading role, you’ll demonstrate strong portfolio, programme, project and risk management skills as you run our programme or project office. This will involve governing and controlling the end to end flow of work through Delivery, including work reception, planning, supporting business case production, tracking the performance and progress of programmes and programme financial control, including programme financial reporting and forecasting.
Throughout your role, you’ll be liaising with key project stakeholders on a regular basis and ensuring excellent communication between the programme or project managers and other senior stakeholders, delivering appropriate resolution and escalation of execution risks and financials.
You’ll also be:
Reviewing existing ways of working, identifying opportunities for improvement, and owning and embedding change to drive efficient delivery and control the flow of work
Maintaining close relationships between other key programmes and other bodies, to make sure that there are no overlaps in responsibilities
Providing secretariat activities including meeting minutes, input papers, terms of reference and communications to stakeholders
Establishing quality assurance activities for various project deliverables and knowledge management activities, such as maintaining repositories and ensuring compliance to established processes
Establishing and controlling the reporting of portfolio health, including progress to plans, programme costs, benefits and opportunities
Building the reporting of baseline information for the programmes, including RAID, progress and detailed milestones of the programme and change control
The skills you'll need
We’re looking for an established collaborator, with strong leadership and management skills. You’ll need experience of working in internal or external programme support roles, coupled with excellent stakeholder management skills.
Additionally, you’ll need:
Knowledge of programme types
Expertise in tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, MSP, Planview, Jira and SharePoint
Knowledge of change and delivery control frameworks, policies and procedures