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Other Agile Working Arrangements / Open to Discussion

Job Description Summary

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Job Description

***The base salary banding for this role is £70,080 - £87,600 in London and £59,040 - £73,800 outside of London, plus the benefits listed below.***


Lloyds Banking Group is the UK’s largest Digital, Retail and Commercial Bank with a focus on Helping Britain Prosper.

We’re on the mission to build the bank of the future, and we need your help to do it! Continuing our extensive transformation programme, we're redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Our technology, our culture, and our mind-set is changing to craft a true engineering-led organisation.

Our Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE) Programme Delivery & Business Operations Team is looking for a Programme Manager to lead an extensive portfolio of projects to deliver the next phase of LBG’s Public Cloud strategy. 

You'll be a self-motivated and proactive leader who has an eye on the bigger picture but can apply laser focus to ensure delivery. You're up for the challenge of working on a large, sophisticated programme that will drive significant change across our business. You'll enjoy storytelling, look to identify associations and gaps, ask the questions others don’t, drive out clarity from ambiguity and be able to challenge the norm to drive business outcome.
 

• Ability to communicate openly with confidence by questioning and gaining context to understand clearly what is needed during interactions at all levels of the organisation.
• Relationship building skills to build and harness strong working relationships with key partners.
• Ability to influence and inspire others to ensure the team is setup for success.
• Balance assertiveness with co-operation to enable truly collaborative working partnerships to achieve shared outcomes.
• Get results, analyse data and deliver desired outcomes.
• Passion to develop diversity through team & individual learning and development
  
   

What's needed to be considered for this role?

Essential skills

• Programme/large project delivery track record in a public cloud setting for a large and complex organisation with Project Management skills in FastPath and Agile and good understanding of managing costs, plans, risks, issues and opportunities.
• Multi-cloud strategy delivery experience. Understanding of Azure and/or Google Cloud products and services, with a good level of technical knowledge for working in an engineering focussed environment
• Experience of communicating effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Planning and financial budgeting experience in an agile (Scrum) based environment
• Significant experience in stakeholder management in a matrix organisation environment.
• Demonstrable leadership experience of project teams, and direct or indirect line management responsibilities.

Desirable skills

• Awareness of technology funding models, budgeting and cost allocation in Cloud based environments would be welcome
• Relevant industry qualifications eg. CISMP, Prince 2, APMP, MSP
• Actively researches industry best practice, tools and techniques for efficient implementation
• Experienced in working in partnership with sourcing to deliver commercial relationships which support strategic outcomes for LBG.
• Track record of successfully delivering IT change with third parties and integrating third parties into LBG delivery.

What you’d get involved with:

Strategy, Prioritisation and Benefits Realisation

• Supporting the team to define and shape the CCoE strategy (the "What" and the "Why")
• Supporting the team to understand the business context which the CCoE faces into and assists them in navigating that landscape
• Supporting the team with prioritisation and refinement activities, to enable value delivered

Governance

• Creating, implementing and operating within an appropriate governance framework which aligns to the wider transformation/end to end governance framework

Planning & finance

• Driving progress towards the MVP; understanding, challenging and managing any blockers, e.g. time, resource and people
• Building and maintaining key relationships with Divisions or Business Units

People & Self Development

• Contributing to building delivery capability across the CCoE, ensuring that teams consider business needs in both product design and acceptance criteria
• Supporting CCoE teams to become delivery specialists, ensuring that change releases are successful
• Leadership, coaching, career development of team members

Risk

• Continuously evaluating against potential risk (financial, people, regulatory and compliance) and taking steps to mitigate where required
• Escalating delivery risks where necessary to ensure that releases are not delayed

What you'd get in return:

Offering you both opportunity and profile - we'll provide you with a diverse, energising and lively environment that focuses on equal opportunity and real career progression.

We'll take your personal and professional development very seriously and enable you to make a genuine difference to millions throughout your career with us.

Together we make it possible.

We'll also give you a broad remuneration package which includes:
 

• Discretionary bonus: up to 40% of basic salary
• Generous pension contribution - up to 13% employer contribution
• A flex cash pot you can adjust to suit your lifestyle – cash sum of 4% of salary
• Private health cover
• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Various share schemes including free shares

So, if you have a desire to work in a challenging programme delivery role in a dynamic environment with quality at the heart of thinking, whilst gaining skills and experience within a friendly and motivated team then get in touch, we'd love to hear from you!

We'll ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain recover. 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'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.