Project Manager Bristol, England
Lloyds Banking Group
Full Time
Bristol, England
56421 - 62690 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
End Date
Tuesday 12 September 2023
Salary Range
£56,421 - £62,690Agile Working Options
Job Description Summary
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: Project Manager
SALARY: £56,421 - £62,690
LOCATION(S): Bristol
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site
About this opportunity
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. We are undertaking one of the biggest transformations ever seen in the UK Financial Sector.
Working within the Strategic Ledger Lab in the Finance Platform, our Project Managers are responsible for identifying value for the LBG Group Finance Ledger product and delivering our objectives and key results.
Through collaboration with key customers within Finance and other Business areas and Enabling Platforms, our Project Manager’s realise value by delivering our product roadmaps, understanding and prioritising opportunities to deliver key Business outcomes as well as assisting with simplifying the product, resolving product risks and reducing the total cost of ownership of the product.
Day to day you’ll be;
- Supporting change activities within the workstream, working in collaboration with the Lab Product Owners and project team. Delivering to agreed scope, cost, quality and timescales.
- Ensuring project objectives are met, using risk management systems to ensure the organisation is not exposed to undue risk.
- Managing dependencies across the workstreams to ensure that work is delivered in line with overall Programme timescales.
- Implementing a detailed delivery approach for each stage of the project lifecycle, producing and owning project management deliverables, using relevant methodologies, to the right level of quality.
- Working with our customers across Finance to agree and realise project benefits, outcomes and key results.
- Identifying and engaging key project partners to regularly communicate updates and issues, and ensure partner sign off
About us
Join us and, as well as making a difference to customers, you’ll enjoy a fulfilling career where you’re free to be yourself. Great colleagues, transforming workspaces, hybrid working and a wide variety of career opportunities – you’ll find them all here.
What you’ll need
- Experience of FastPath delivery; proficient in the use of all core Change tools (CMT, Clarity and JIRA)
- Experience of engaging and working with our partners, such as Oracle, KPMG and/or other external software vendors to LBG
- A learning mindset, aiming to grow own capabilities by pursuing and investing in personal development opportunities
- An ability to adopt new ways of working and finding a way to incorporate agile practices
- Well-developed communication kit bag with extensive customer management experience
And any experience of these would be really useful
- You’re able to remain calm and lead teams effectively through constrained timescales and difficult initiatives
- You can influence partners of all levels and balance partner expectations, facilitating discussions across high risk and complexity or under constrained timescales.
- You’ll be skilled in Leading and minimising risks and you'll influence positively - demonstrating values and behaviours that align to our Group's, and encouraging this in team members.
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.
