Senior Project Manager

We’re made for each other

If you’re passionate about delivering transformation, inspiring others and making a real impact – we’d love to hear from you!

Here at the West Brom we have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Manager to join our Project Management Function. As a Senior Project Manager, you will work collaboratively with colleagues from across the portfolio and project management teams. You will play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering Change and IT projects to help drive our strategic focus forward, while providing leadership and guidance to fellow Project Managers.

What you’ll be doing:

• 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

What we’re looking for:

• 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

We Value a diverse range of skills and experiences here at the West Brom. So even if you don't meet every single requirement listed in the job description but are passionate about the role, we still encourage you to apply.

What's in it for you:

• We pride ourselves on our development opportunities and always look to promote from within wherever possible,
• Holiday starting at 175 hours (25 days) plus bank holidays that grow with your time with us and the opportunity to buy or sell up to 5 days holiday each year,
• 2 paid volunteering days a year,
• Living Pensions: Pension scheme starting at 5% contribution from you and 7% contribution from us, and we’ll match your further contributions up to 10.6%
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave with paid fertility treatment, neonatal and pregnancy loss leave,
• Life assurance provided by the Society at 4 times your salary,
• Yearly performance related pay scheme and pay review,
• Private medical insurance that’s discounted when your time with us grows, with the option to include family members,
• Salary Sacrifice Electric/Hybrid Car Scheme,
• A Perkbox account – giving you 24/7 access to perks, benefits, discounts, wellbeing tools and loads more!
• And much more, from flexible working options, wellbeing support and a whole heap of warm West Bromness.

Why choose the West Brom?

At the West Brom we appreciate that our employees are unique individuals with differing needs depending on their specific circumstances and stages in life. When we say our people are the West Brom’s biggest asset that doesn’t mean just viewing them as employees. We’re proud of our heritage and absolutely believe that the West Brom is a great place to work. Our employers are the heart of bringing our new vision to life- where our customers and communities own a more secure future. Everyday, through the work they do together and the care they show, they’re helping turn that vision into real and lasting.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader and encourage disabled applicants and all from diverse backgrounds to apply. We’ll do what we can to adjust our recruitment journey and offer a guaranteed interview to disabled applicants who meet what we’re looking for. If you need any support with applying to one of our roles, get in touch at careers@westbrom.co.uk.

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*Please note – We reserve the right to withdraw our adverts earlier than the original published expiry date, therefore if you are interested please submit your application as soon as possible*

Head Office: 2 Providence Place West Bromwich B70 8AF. www.westbrom.co.uk The West Brom is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority. Register no. 104877. ‘the West Brom’ is a trading name of West Bromwich Building Society.