Lead Project Manager - Commercial Programmes Edinburgh, Scotland
Lloyds Banking Group
Full Time
Edinburgh, Scotland
56421 - 62690 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
End Date
Wednesday 09 August 2023
Salary Range
£56,421 - £62,690Agile Working Options
Job Description Summary
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're inspired by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses, and communities. Lloyds Banking Group is the UK's leading Digital Bank and biggest mobile bank with nearly 14 million active online customers across our three brands.Now that we have already built the market leader in digital banking, we are on a journey to build the bank of the future, for which we are investing £3bn across platforms, people and data capabilities to truly become the best bank for customers.
Commercial Banking division has a rich heritage of supporting businesses and the economic prosperity of the nation, primarily focused on UK businesses and those with strong links to the UK. We provide customers with the support they need to help them grow, manage risk and improve efficiency. And we continue to invest in our relationship teams and deepen our product expertise to ensure we deliver first class service
Job Description
JOB TITLE: Lead Project Manager - Commercial Programmes
LOCATION(S): Edinburgh
HOURS: Full time (35 hours per week)
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site
About this opportunity
As a Lead Project manager, you will be part of our Commercial Programmes Platform, within Commercial Banking Delivery. Our mission is to unlock value through the delivery of time-bound programme and project-based change for the benefit of Business Commercial Banking & Corporate Institutional Banking Business Units. We work diligently to make decisions real time on customer transactions to identify ways of improving the customer journey as well as making sure we meet regulatory directives. We offer customers education and awareness that is timely, tailored and effective to help keep them informed of the best products available to them. All of which will have you going home feeling that you've added true value to the customers we support!
So, what would you be doing for us?
The Project Manager is responsible for leading their delivery team to ensure the fundamentals of Project Management excellence are achieved. This includes analysis, governance, planning managing finances and delivering value. You should role model a desire to develop skills and experience, create space to learn and collaborate, demonstrate resilience and adaptability, confidence and the ability to innovate and test new insights. You will understand, embrace and be able to select with confidence the most appropriate tools and methods to deliver change. You should strive to establish relationships across role communities, change teams and business areas to increase opportunities for continuous improvement through shared findings.
Mentoring others in across the commercial change teams to achieve delivery excellence is also a key part of the role.
About us
We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.
Key Capabilities:
Typical activities would include:
- Produces a project or workstream plan defining the delivery achievements, tasks and activities. Understands the project critical path and how own area of responsibility impacts this. Monitors progress against project/workstream plan, identifies slippage and supports activity to recover.
- Follows the appropriate elements of the LBG project delivery lifecycle, including completing formal reviews at appropriate points.
- Delivers outcomes by leading others and working within established systems, building relationships with key stakeholders to support delivery.
- Reports progress and status to the appropriate partners on a timely basis, including identification and monitoring of key risks and issues.
- Grows own capabilities by pursuing and investing in personal development opportunities. Supports the development of capabilities of the project team by working within existing development framework.
- Implements appropriate project support processes to manage issues, identify and minimise risks, monitor dependencies and record assumptions.
- Builds and maintains effective working and influencing relationships with appropriate colleagues.
About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.
We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.
And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.
We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
- Share schemes including free shares
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
- A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
