Project Manager - Retail Banking - Halifax

I am looking for a Project Manager to work within retail banking in Halifax.

What will the role entail/accountabilities?

Programme/Project Set Up and Closure: Agrees a clearly defined delivery approach for own area of responsibility.

Governance and Reporting: Reports progress and status to the appropriate stakeholders on a timely basis, including identification and escalation of key risks and issues.

Project Delivery: Follows the appropriate elements of the business project delivery life cycle for own area of responsibility, including contributing to/completing formal reviews at appropriate points.

Implements appropriate project support processes to manage issues, identify and mitigate risks, monitor dependencies and record assumptions, and ensure that the right level of quality is achieved in all deliverables.

Planning: Produces a project or work stream plan defining the deliverable milestones, tasks and activities; understands the project critical path and how own area of responsibility impacts this; monitors progress against project/work stream plan, identifies slippage and supports activity to recover.

Resource Management and Finance: Provides support to the control and management of project budgets and resource costs, reporting variances and escalating as appropriate to overcome delays, difficulties or cost over-runs.

Stakeholder Management: Identifies key project or work stream stakeholders for their area of responsibility and contributes to the appropriate stakeholder communication plan.

Ensures sign off for all accountable deliverables.

Internal/External Relationships: Builds and maintains effective working and influencing relationships with appropriate colleagues, proactively answering queries and following up actions with stakeholders. Risk: Timely and accurate completion of own project deliverables, assessing and managing risks and identifying counter measures.

What are the Core Skills and Experience required to do the role?

Risk, Compliance and Regulatory Management

Insight and Solutions

Delivering change and improvement

Customer Excellence

Communication and Impact

Managing relationships

Collaborative working

Planning and organising

If you feel you have the relevant skills for this role, please submit your CV in the first instance.