Vice President, Project Management - Security & Resilience Portfolio in London

Energy Jobline ZR; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy job board is seeking a Vice President of Project Management to oversee Cyber Security projects in London. The role requires extensive experience in managing significant change programs and strong stakeholder relationship management skills. The ideal candidate will have a professional project management accreditation and a deep understanding of Cyber Security frameworks. The position offers a hybrid working environment and emphasizes employee wellbeing and development.

Benefits

25 holiday days and 3 'life days'

Generous parental leave policies

Hybrid working options

Private medical insurance

Access to learning platforms

Qualifications

• Significant experience in leading Cyber Security change programs.
• Proven ability managing complex projects in demanding environments.
• Experience delivering IT change projects in regulated organizations.

Responsibilities

• Define project plans and manage resources effectively.
• Ensure project deliverables meet governance standards.
• Manage relationships with stakeholders across projects.

Skills

Project Management

Cyber Security Knowledge

Communication Skills

Stakeholder Management

Document Creation

Education

Professional PM accreditation (MSP/PRINCE2/PMI/APM/SIX SIGMA)

Tools

MS Office Suite

MS Project

PlanView

Job description

Energy Jobline is the largest and fastest growing global Energy Job Board and Energy Hub. We have an audience reach of over 7 million energy professionals, 400,000+ monthly advertised global energy and engineering jobs, and work with the leading energy companies worldwide.

We focus on the Oil & Gas, Renewables, Engineering, Power, and Nuclear markets as well as emerging technologies in EV, Battery, and Fusion. We are committed to ensuring that we offer the most exciting career opportunities from around the world for our jobseekers.

About CLS

CLS is the trusted party at the centre of the global FX ecosystem. Utilized by thousands of counterparties, CLS makes FX safer, smoother and more cost effective. Trillions of dollars' worth of currency flows through our systems each day.

Created by the market for the market, our unrivalled global settlement infrastructure reduces systemic risk and provides standardisation for participants in many of the world's most actively traded currencies. We deliver huge efficiencies and savings for our clients: in fact, our approach to multilateral netting shrinks funding requirements by over 96% on average, so clients can put their capital and resources to better use.

CLS products are designed to enable clients to manage risk most effectively across the full FX lifecycle - whether through more efficient processing tools or market intelligence derived from the largest single source of FX executed data available to the market.

Our core values

• Pivotal purpose
• Trusted guardian
• Targeted innovation
• Facilitate connections
• Delivering excellence
• Inclusive culture

Job information

• Functional title - Vice President, Project Management
• Department - Technology Projects
• Corporate level - Vice President, Technology Project Management
• Report to - Director, Security Program Manager
• Location - London

What you will be doing

The PM will be:

• Responsible for developing, in conjunction with the Program Manager and Project Owner, a definition of the project(s) and ensures the project is effectively resourced and manages the relationships with a wide range of groups (including all project contributors).
• Responsible for managing the work of consultants, allocating and utilising resources in an efficient manner and maintaining a co‑operative, motivated and successful team.
• Responsible and accountable for the delivery of several projects which report into a Security Program under a wider Portfolio of change.
• Responsible for detailed project reporting and governance adherence.
• Responsible for delivery of a suite of Cyber Security projects including new Security tooling and Operational transformation.

What we're looking for

Essential Function / major duties and responsibilities of the job

Strategic

• Defines plans through a rigorous and highly interactive process of defining business requirements, project specifications, managing resources and environments.
• Agrees and formalises plans, conducts or co‑ordinates required business analysis where necessary. Presents plans and business cases and gains their sign off from sponsors and other stakeholders.
• Relationship management; develop and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, both internal and external.
• Create project business case for all projects and ensure the benefits are measurable and agreed by all stakeholders. Responsible for demonstrating that stated benefits have been realised once the project has been delivered.

Operational

• Manage day‑to‑day operational aspects of a project, scope, and budget.
• Manage and maintain interlock of projects with other project managers.
• Create and execute project work plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Effectively apply, support and champion the CLS Governance methodology and enforce project standards.
• Review deliverables prepared by the project team before company‑wide review.
• Identify all project resources and where necessary work with the PMO to secure project support resources.
• Identify and lead the virtual project team.
• Manage, mitigate, and report project risks and issues.
• Where required, recruiting project staff and consultants.
• Managing co‑ordination of the partners and working groups engaged in project work.
• Ensure project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.
• Detailed project planning and control including:
  • Developing and maintaining a detailed project plan.
  • Managing project deliverables in line with the project plan.
  • Recording and managing project issues and escalating where necessary.
  • Resolving cross‑functional issues at project level.
  • Managing project scope and change control.
  • Monitoring project progress and performance from a benefit realization, time, cost, and quality perspective.
  • Providing status reports.
• Liaison with, and updates progress to, project steering board/senior management
• From time to time, provide cover for peers and assist in the creation and issuance of departmental reports.
• Understand basic revenue models, P/L, and cost‑to‑completion projections, apply analysis to this data to make project decisions and provide reporting of this data.

Leadership

• Coach and mentor junior members of staff.
• Display complete ownership for projects leading by example.
• Capable of managing a project team effectively through matrix management. Need to be able to get the best out of a team of people who are not direct reports.
• Experienced at managing stakeholders ensuring effective communication and governance is in place.
• Influence and manage the project teams (internal and external) to deliver to the required constraints of time, budget, and quality.

Experience / Qualifications / Soft Skills

Experience / essential and desired for successful job performance.

• Significant practical experience of leading and managing Cyber Security change programs across an end‑to‑end project lifecycle gained within a large organisation.
• Extensive hands‑on experience of delivering complex IT change projects in a highly regulated organisation.
• Have responsibility of delivering change programs with budgets in excess of $1m.
• Excellent communication skills with practical experience of supporting technical teams to formulate and articulate business benefits through the construction of business cases.
• Demonstrable experience of quantifying the effort required to deliver a solution whilst articulating any implications of any proposed solution on the wider business and existing systems.
• Experience delivering security focused projects drawing on experience of Security frameworks such as NIST CSF / 800‑53 Rev 5 and ISO27001.
• Experienced in creating well‑structured and good quality project documentation with excellent skills in the use of the MS Office suite of tools and MS Project.
• Experience of using PlanView or similar, to produce and maintain high quality project plans.
• Strong personal work ethic.
• Motivated delivery focused individual.
• Excellent inter‑personal skills.
• Proven ability managing projects in a complex, demanding environment.

Professional qualifications / certifications

• Professional PM accreditation ((MSP/PRINCE2/PMI/APM/SIX SIGMA)).
• Significant project management experience.

Our commitment to employees

• Holiday - UK/Asia: 25 holiday days and 3 'life days' (in addition to bank holidays). US: 23 holiday days.
• 2 paid volunteer days so that you can actively support causes within your community that are important to you.
• Generous parental leave policies to ensure you can enjoy valuable time with your family.
• Parental transition coaching programmes and support services.
• Wellbeing and mental health support resources to ensure you are looking after yourself, and able to support others.
• Employee Networks (including our Women's Forum, Black Employee Network and Pride Network) in support of our organisational commitment to embrace and always be learning more about inclusivity.
• Hybrid working to promote a healthy work/life balance, enabling employees to work collaboratively in the office when needed and work from home when they don't.
• Active support of flexible working for all employees where possible.
• Monthly 'Heads Down Days' with no meetings across the whole company.
• Generous non‑contributory pension provision for UK/Asia employees, and 401K match from CLS for US employees.
• Private medical insurance and dental coverage.
• Social events that give you opportunities to meet new people and broaden your network across the organisation.
• Annual flu vaccinations.
• Discounts and savings and cashback across a wide range of categories including health and retail for UK employees.
• Discounted Gym membership - Complete Body Gym Discount/Sweat equity program for US employees.
• All employees have access to Discover - our comprehensive learning platform with 1000+ courses from LinkedIn Learning.
• Access to frequent development sessions on a number of topics to help you be successful and develop your career at CLS.

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