OVERALL SUMMARY
At Close Brothers we look to recruit individuals from all different backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every box. We celebrate diversity, promote inclusivity and are open to discuss flexible work options to help you balance your work and home life.
We are seeking an experienced Programme Director to direct transformation of our core ERP landscape, driving the successful replacement of SAP, delivering strategic business change, operational excellence, and long-term organisational value. You will provide executive management across technology and business workstreams.
Join the Close Brothers Enterprise Change team where you will drive, define, plan, execute, and deliver a major enterprise-wide transformation on time, in budget, and within scope in accordance with business priorities. Working as part of the Change team to successfully deliver Strategic Change Business, Customer and Colleague outcomes, our ideal team member will have previous experience in managing a programmes budget with excellent relationship building skills
You will lead multidisciplinary teams, third parties and delivery teams with a high degree of integration and dependency management to deliver successful change outcomes. Throughout the lifecycle of each programme, you will track the programme status and manages project teams to mitigate issues and risks.
A Programme Director is a practitioner of the Project Management and Business Change Practice and contributes to the continuous improvement of the Skills and Capabilities of the function
WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF YOU:
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Role Model a genuine drive for improvement and encourages others to drive excellence
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Build and develop and manage high performing delivery teams, valuing and inspiring colleagues. Have lead cross functional, multi-disciplinary teams to facilitate end to end delivery of business outcomes
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Deliver change outcomes working on a large-scale complex programme. Enterprise wide business and technical change deliveries with a proven track record of SAP replacement and associated finance, reporting and integration platforms.
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Have experience of enterprise wide transformation, improving efficiency and organisational change
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Manage a Programme’s budget on behalf of the Director of Enterprise Change, monitoring the expenditures and costs against delivered and realised benefits.
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Master in project management lifecycles, techniques, hybrid working collaborating and driving delivery across both face to face and virtual relationships and have the ability to tailor delivery styles aligning to the appropriate methodology for the programme/project
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Have experience directing a number of significant business and/or technical programme deliveries in financial services or other similar regulated environment.
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Anticipate, Identify, manage and monitor key programme risks making sure appropriate checks and balances are used.
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Worked with third party systems, integrators and providers.
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Have a customer centric approach to problem solving whilst maintaining a sharp focus on commercial metrics and benefits realisation.
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Have Project Management (PRINCE 2 or Other) Qualifications
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Have experience of both traditional and agile methods.
IT IS NOT ESSENTIAL BUT IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU HAVE:
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Agile Delivery Qualifications
We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We recognise that candidates may have specific needs that require adjustments to ensure they have a fair and equal opportunity to demonstrate their skills and abilities. Candidates who require the job description or application form in an alternative format, or any other adjustments, are encouraged to email us at [email protected] or request a call back.
ABOUT US
For roles offering hybrid working: At Close Brothers we support employees to balance their work life priorities and in this role you will be able to enjoy a mixture of hybrid working.
Close Brothers is a leading UK merchant banking group providing lending, deposit taking and securities trading. We employ approximately 3,000 people, principally in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Close Brothers Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250.
To find out more about Close Brothers, please visit our careers page: https://www.closebrothers.com/careers
To find out more about life at Close Brothers:
https://www.closebrothers.com/life-close-brothers#374017299-899295541
To find out more about our benefits:
https://www.closebrothers.com/employee-benefits
To find out more about our commitment to creating an inclusive environment:
Our Responsibility - Diversity and inclusion ¦ Close Brothers Group
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At Close Brothers Group, we are all connected by our mission to be the best place in the UK for wealth professionals and their clients.
We believe that everyone should think ahead, have a financial plan and invest wisely. Our clients are professionals, business owners, individuals, charities, families, and employers, who rely on our clear financial advice and investment management services to preserve and grow their long-term savings and investments.
We are a team of about 900 people based in 15 offices across the UK. Our geographic footprint means we can combine a local approach with face-to-face services to enable strong, long-term relationships with our clients.
Sustainability is fundamental to our purpose and we have a responsibility to help address the social, economic and environmental challenges facing our business, colleagues and clients. We strive to do the right thing and are dedicated to helping the charities that matter most to our people.
Our vision is to develop an open and inclusive company that ensures everyone is valued, respected and included, so that in years to come our business will represent a diverse and inclusive workforce from the top down.
We look to recruit individuals from all different backgrounds. If this job is of interest to you but you do not meet every criteria then we encourage you still to apply as we are open to providing training opportunities.
