VP - Programme Manager

Title: VP - Programme Manager
Location: Whippany, NJ (Hybrid)
Type: Contract
Duration: Long Term

The expectations for the Delivery Lead role include:

• Effectively managing engagement with key stakeholder across multiple teams on progress with review and assessment of legal obligations under the EU AI Act
• Leading working group discussions to enable collaboration across teams and following up on working group actions with bilateral discussions where necessary
• Reporting accurate and timely agreed KPIs to facilitate working group discussions and reporting to senior management

Purpose of the role: To manage change projects that help the organization achieve its strategic objectives, while ensuring that projects are delivered on time, within budget, in control and in compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies and procedures.

Accountabilities:

• Management of change projects within the organization, ensuring that they are delivered on time, within scope, budget, and to the required quality standards.
• Development and management of project plans that outline the scope, objectives, timelines, and resource requirements for change projects.
• Communication with stakeholders, including senior management, project teams, and external partners, to ensure that they are informed about project progress and that their needs and expectations are being met.
• Management of project teams, ensuring that they are properly resourced and that they have the necessary skills and expertise to deliver on project objectives.
• Management of project budgets, ensuring that projects are delivered within the agreed budget.
• Creation of reports on project progress to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
• Management of project risks, ensuring that risk, assumptions, issues and dependencies are identified, assessed, and mitigated, as necessary.
• Facilitation of change management activities, including training and communication, to ensure that change projects are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.

Role Expectations:

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
• As an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
• All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Client Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Clients Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Additional Job Description:

• Our vision is clear, to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. Join us as a Programme Manager and drive large-scale, complex Sustainability programmes what will shape the future
• In this high-impact role, you will lead cross-functional that embed practices into our operations, helping us meet our ambitious Sustainability goals and delivering long-term value. If you’re passionate about driving meaningful change on a global scale, this is your opportunity to make a real difference.

To be successful in this role, you should:

• Large scale programme management and governance experience
• Ability to master and navigate new subject domains quickly
• Exceptional analytical and presentation skills
• Experience of working with multiple senior stakeholders across Business, Technology, Operations and Group Functions i.e. Risk and Compliance

Other highly valued skills include:

• Experience/ knowledge in one or more of the following domains: Sustainable Finance, Financial Regulation, Risk and Control