JOB TITLE: Project Manager (12-month fixed term contract)
LOCATION: Edinburgh, Sighthill North
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. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join our CIB Rectification & Remediation (R&R) team, helping us put things right when things have gone wrong for our clients. You'll work across a varied and high-profile portfolio, delivering complex change and ensuring our clients are treated fairly and lessons are learned. As a Project Manager, you'll lead your delivery team across the full project lifecycle, bringing strong project management disciplines across analysis, planning, governance, financial management and delivery. You'll challenge thinking and explore new ideas, helping create an environment where the team can deliver at its best. Working across teams and business areas, you'll help ensure we continue to deliver high standards of service while meeting our regulatory requirements. This is a 12-month fixed-term contract opportunity.
Responsibilities:
•Lead change projects from idea through to implementation, delivering to agreed scope, cost, quality and timescales.
•Lead planning, governance and delivery across design, build, route to live and implementation, ensuring accountable deliverables are signed off.
•Identify and escalate delivery risks, dependencies and upstream or downstream impacts to keep releases and roadmap initiatives on track.
•Build effective working relationships across the business, influencing colleagues, resolving queries and ensuring actions are followed through.
•Lead and facilitate Agile delivery activities including Daily Stand-ups, Release Planning, Backlog Refinement, Retrospectives and Sprint Reviews.
•Coach and support colleagues within the team, creating an environment that encourages collaboration, learning and delivery excellence.
Requirements:
•Experience of working on Rectification & Remediation projects, with a strong understanding of the R&R lifecycle.
•Strong project management experience, with a track record of leading change from idea through to implementation.
•Strong planning, governance and financial management skills, with experience delivering against scope, cost, quality and timescales.
•Experience working within change lifecycles and supporting governance requirements.
•Experience working in Agile delivery environments, with a good understanding of Agile ways of working.
•Strong analytical, problem-solving and negotiation skills, with the confidence to make sound judgements in complex or challenging situations.
•Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships across a range of colleagues and partners.
Benefits:
•We support flexible working, including job share options.
•A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
•An annual performance-related bonus
•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
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.
