Role: Project Manager
Location: Sheffield
Job Description
Department - Colleague & Collaboration, CTO. In this role, you will:
- Provide direct oversight of the programme(s)/project(s) financial and outcome accountability, reporting to a Portfolio Manager within CTO.
- Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders within IT, Global Businesses, and Finance.
- Work closely with their respective Portfolio Manager and senior stakeholders to ensure alignment of their project/programme with the wider change portfolio and group strategy, values, and behaviour.
- Provide board level overview of progress, lead and direct multidisciplinary teams across all global businesses, global functions, and regions.
- Lead end-to-end execution and responsibility for all aspects of the project/programme, including definition, planning, execution & implementation, governance & control, financial, resource, and change management.
- Provide financial analysis, including being able to contextualize financial data into business activities and conclusions.
- Ensure adherence to financial processes and procedures at project/programme level, as set and communicated by HSBC Group, regulators, and CTO PPM Practice.
- Own the identification and escalation of any budgetary related risks, issues, and opportunities to portfolio/function as appropriate.
- Have responsibility for effective handover of the project/programme into Business-as-Usual operations to support effective benefits realization.
- Have responsibility for deploying the Business Transformation Frameworks and respective methodologies within their Programme/Project and instilling good programme/project disciplines within their project and wider team.
Requirements
To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:
- 15+ years of relevant IT experience, with a minimum of 5+ years of experience in project and programme management.
- Excellent understanding and proven experience of Programme and Project Management methodologies including Waterfall and Agile.
- Ability to direct and influence people in a matrix-oriented environment and establish working partnerships at junior and senior organizational levels.
- Proven experience of positive, challenging interactions with Senior Executives across the business.
- Outstanding relationship management, collaboration, and influencing skills.
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills with a proven ability to communicate effectively and confidently at all levels across the Group.
- Change agent with proven ability of implementing large scale organizational, procedural, technology, and people-related change programmes.
- Proven ability to articulate complex issues concisely and in simple language to recognize the global remit of this role.
- Expert knowledge of managing and steering technical blockers for the project/programme.
- Strong financial analytical background and proven ability in financial/analytical reasoning, including being able to contextualize financial data into business activities and conclusions.
- Experience of delivering large scale change programmes within a Technology organization, with Infrastructure experience.
- High level of drive and motivation to ensure delivery of a broad range of outputs simultaneously across HSBC.
- Experience of leading and managing teams with a proven track record of working with diverse, cross-functional teams that are located regionally and worldwide.
- Experience of driving continuous improvement.
- Prior experience working in End user services and Infrastructure Projects.
- Should have managed end-to-end project ~$5m.
- Technology exposure and experience in (optional – good to have):
- Landing Zones: Private and Public Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure & Ali).
- Collaboration: Microsoft 365, Outlook, Teams, and Zoom.
- Hardware: Cisco, HP, Dell, IBM, Lenovo.
- Operations: Aternity, SCOM, AppDynamics, Microsoft Intune.
- Software Management: Ansible, JIRA, GitHub, Jenkins, Confluence.
- Others: ESX, vCenter, Citrix, VDI & VDA.
Skillsets Required
- Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting
- Setting Governance Structure
- Proficiency in Excel & PowerPoint
- Story Telling
- Engaging Stakeholders at the right level
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Decision Making
- Adaptability