Senior IT Change & Delivery Lead (Hybrid)

West Brom Building Society; West Bromwich; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Volunteering days

Pension scheme

Parental leave

Life assurance

Performance pay

Private medical

Car scheme

Perkbox

Job summary

The West Brom Building Society is looking for a Senior Project Manager to lead IT and business change programmes in a regulated financial services setting. You will manage cross-functional teams across Architecture, Business Analysis, and Technology, guiding delivery from initiation through deployment.

In this hybrid role based in West Bromwich, you will shape the delivery portfolio, drive process improvements, and manage third-party suppliers to ensure on-time, on-budget project outcomes.

Qualifications

• Project delivery experience ideally across financial services - with experience of both Agile and Waterfall delivery
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to influence a wide range of stakeholders
• Experience of delivering and leading business and IT projects / programmes in a regulated environment
• Strong project management skills with a desire to deliver to time; cost and quality
• Experience of managing 3rd Parties to delivery effect IT change
• Previous experience in delivery financial services / regulated projects
• Proven experience in delivering projects employing both Agile and Waterfall based methodologies. Project management certification such as PRINCE2, Scrum, PMP
• Breadth of knowledge across the infrastructure technology stack, including Cloud technologies

Responsibilities

• Manage a team, including PMs and PMO resources, to deliver an effective team. This includes the development of colleagues as well as ensure delivery is in line with the governance framework within the Society
• Management of project resources to develop an effective team in a matrixed environment
• Delivery within a multi project portfolio, including the development and management of a detailed project schedules and work plans
• Proactively manages change to project scope via change control to ensure projects track progress and costs in order to meet objectives, scope and budget
• Management of Society stakeholders to ensure that status, project dependencies and critical path along with the associated impacts and risk are clearly communicated and understood. This is within the Portfolio and also all levels of stakeholders
• Responsible for delivering multiple projects through matrixed resources from various teams across the IT division, including but not exclusively, Architecture, Business Analysis, Technical Services Group, DBAs and Service
• Will work with the portfolio team, architecture colleagues as well as business and technical stakeholders to shape the delivery portfolio and incept the agreed projects.
• Driving process improvement across the IT delivery, ownership of project delivery improvements as we as supporting the PMO and the technical teams as we embed a continuous improvement culture
• Own relationship with 3rd Party Suppliers, working from the initial engagement though the effective delivery of the project - This will include RFI / RFP, commercials, supplier management and building effective delivery models

Job description

The West Brom Building Society is looking for a Senior Project Manager to lead IT and business change programmes in a regulated financial services setting. You will manage cross-functional teams across Architecture, Business Analysis, and Technology, guiding delivery from initiation through deployment.

In this hybrid role based in West Bromwich, you will shape the delivery portfolio, drive process improvements, and manage third-party suppliers to ensure on-time, on-budget project outcomes.