Senior Project Manager

Business Unit: Chief Operating Office
Salary Range: £52,000 – £65,000 per annum DOE + red-hot benefits
Location: Remote
Contract Type: permanent

Your next adventure starts here

Our Team
The Risk Change portfolio in Enterprise Services CIO deliver change to support the Risk business, working across Credit Risk and Operational Risk teams to ensure the bank delivers on its Regulatory agenda and ensure the bank stays safe and compliant. We deliver a range of projects across IRB and Risk models, Credit decision systems and Risk management services.

As a Senior Project Manager you will be responsible for larger and more complex projects, working with business and technical stakeholder to deliver change.

What you’ll be doing…
• Working with project sponsors to develop scope and business cases including financials and project plans.
• Ensuring the project delivers on time and within budget whilst remaining aligned to the strategy, with a disciplined change control process to make sure changes are formally agreed.
• Ensuring the project adheres to the project management and methodology standards and governance framework.
• Developing and managing a stakeholder engagement plan ensuring continuous and clear communications with sponsors, business owners and impacted suppliers.
• Working with internal / external stakeholders and suppliers to design innovative solutions and establish requirements and priorities.
• Establishing resourcing requirements for the project and work with Portfolio/Programme leads to optimise the mix of internal/external resource and develop solutions to resource shortfalls.
• Taking accountability, assessing situations and making critical decisions when faced with complex demands and issues that can, and will, arise throughout the project life-cycle.
• Leading and coordinating teams of diverse technical and non-technical resources across multiple geographic sites and engaging effectively with external 3rd party service providers.

We need you to have…
Proven experience of project management, delivering complex projects on budget and on time
Good understanding of the financial sector – sound business acumen and judgment; ability to see and communicate technology challenges in business terms; ability to understand and deliver business value
A sound understanding of project management methodologies both Waterfall and Agile with exposure to all types of releases, such as rapid deployment and the more traditional release methods
A collaborative and positive approach with exceptional communications and inter-personal skills.
The ability to lead, coach and empower people as a People Leader
Experience of managing successful relationships with partners and 3rd parties

We’d love it if you had, but not essential…
• Experience of complex Regulatory project delivery environments
• Understanding of Financial Control and Risk Regulatory Reporting
• Knowledge of Credit decision systems and regulated model data environments

Red Hot Rewards
• Generous holidays – 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if Part–Time) plus the option to buy more
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt
• Market-leading pension and free private medical cover
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness
• Ability to work anywhere in the UK (where the role allows)

And there’s no waiting around, you’ll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? Apply as soon as you can. If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.
We’re all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.

Say hello to Virgin Money
We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank. As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we`re a workforce to be reckoned with. We’re putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people’s lives. We strive to create positive experiences for our millions of customers and our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money’, underpins everything we do. We believe in doing banking differently, innovating and working together to make a real difference. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work.

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Now the legal bit
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.

If you’re successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years’ worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks – we’ll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you’ll be subject to periodic employment checks.