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Salary: £56,421 - £62,690
LOCATION(S): Bristol
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.
About this opportunity:
As Project Manager you will have a focus on supporting activity within the Data Lab and the delivery team to ensure the fundamentals of Project Management excellence are achieved, this includes analysis, governance, planning, budget control and delivering value.
You will also get involved in Project activity, which will focus upon technical related delivery aspects and supporting governance.
We prioritise delivery of the technical data requirements to support the Transforming Finance initiative by engaging with the delivery teams and understanding their need and delivering change in an agile and collaborative way. We’re investing £3bn in our future – across platforms, people, and data capabilities to truly become the best bank for customers, with unparalleled growth into areas such as Data Science, AI and Robotics. We’re building the bank of the future, and we need your help!
What you’ll be doing:
- You'll role model your skills and experience, build space to learn and collaborate, demonstrate resilience and adaptability, confidence and a desire to innovate and test new ideas.
- Understand, embrace and select with confidence the most appropriate tools and methods to deliver change. Building relationships across role communities, change teams and business areas to maximise opportunities for continuous improvement through shared learnings. Coaching others in your team to achieve delivery excellence is also a key to the role.
- 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.
- Building connections across LBG and understanding supporting processes, procedures and toolsets.
- 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.
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:
Essential
- You're a dynamic and adaptable individual – able to use & learn new skills & knowledge in varying circumstances
- You’re able to remain calm and lead the team effectively through constrained timescales and difficult initiatives
- You've a well-developed communication kit bag with extensive customer management experience
- 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.
Desirable
- Experience of both FastPath and Optimus delivery; proficient in the use of all core Change tools (CMT, Clarity and JIRA)
- Experience of engaging and working with our partners, such as IBM and TCS and/or other external software vendors to LBG such as Oracle.
- 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
- Familiarisation with Group Transformation Principles and Practices
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.