Programme Manager Halifax
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End Date Thursday 27 July 2023 Salary Range £71,825 - £84,500 Agile Working Options Hybrid Working Job Description Summary . Job Description JOB TITLE: Programme Manager SALARY: £71, 825 - £84,500 LOCATION(S): Halifax HOURS: Full time WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site About this opportunity In People & Places, our priority is making Lloyds Banking Group a great place to work for all our people, so that together we can keep supporting our customers and communities. We do this by making sure our business has the best people doing the right things to deliver our Group strategy – to grow, focus and change so that we can Help Britain Prosper. This role sits in the People Platform, working in partnership with leaders in People and Places , leading diverse multi-disciplinary teams of business, technology and data experts, accountable for the delivery of both transformational and core operational changes. In this role you'll be responsible for delivering key components of our People and Places strategy. Day to day you’ll be; Delivering Value in the Skills Lab, working in Partnership with P&P colleagues, leading agile squads & teams, understanding strengths & weaknesses & balancing skills & capabilities to realise Lab vision. Delivering initiatives against often evolving Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) Designing products & services to contribute to the organisation and its customers. Ensuring that adequate focus is placed on burning down technical debt and prioritising defect fixing in production over new features. Ensure that the non-functional elements of products are considered (robustness, performance, scalability, usability, extensibility, ease to maintain and configure, ease of integration etc.) Encouraging teams to rapidly test new capability & learn to unlock value through MVP release. About us If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose. What you’ll need You'll need to be an excellent communicator, be highly motivated and have a passion for working with people and technology. You'll use your experience in HR / People fields working across the HR lifecycle, and current knowledge of technology eco-systems in HR, people management practices and trends to support People and Places with prioritisation. Essentials; Experience of Skills/ Skills technologies (LXP) and be familiar with the current challenges. Product Owner/ Delivery Lead with experience of leading teams using both Agile and Waterfall change frameworks. An awareness of how to adopt the right methodology to meet requirements, driving forward a clear product vision, shaping and managing product backlogs with a focus on achieving agreed outcomes and deliverables. Conceptualising technical & operational solutions using in-house and 3rd party software products to solve business problems. Using data and insights to build business cases to secure investment funding. Delivering complex initiatives within budget and time constraint & the ability to shape & run insightful stakeholder sessions (e.g., Senior Working Groups) And any experience of these would be really useful Tackling complex problems and breaking them out into a roadmap of viable solutions. An ability to shape and inspire your teams to deliver exceptional outcomes & experiences A technical & analytical mentality with strong data skills & the ability to translate complex information into punchy & insightful presentations. 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. Lloyds Banking Group
