Lead Project Manager

Job title:

Lead Project Manager

Company

Close Brothers Group

Job description

OVERALL SUMMARYAt 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.Join the Close Brothers Central Functions Team as our Lead Project Manager where you will plan, execute and deliver all programmes/projects in time, in budget and within scope in accordance to the priorities of the business. The lead project manager is the leader of people and a leader within the project management changes community of practice, developing, helping to encourage and contributing to continuous improvement of skills and capabilities.RESPONSIBILITIES

• Takes full responsibility for the definition, documentation and successful completion of complex projects.
• Adopts and adapts project management methods and tools. Ensures that effective project monitoring and control processes, change control, risk management and quality processes are employed and maintained.
• Monitors and controls resources, revenue and capital expenditures against the project budget.
• Manages the expectations of key project stakeholders
• Facilitates workgroups to deliver defined goals and outcomes.
• Provides support, guidance and suggestions to workgroups and teams to learn collaborative problem solving and improve their team performance. Creates shared responsibilities and sustainable agreements with the team.
• Implements and improves agreed team principles, practices, processes & ceremonies.
• Recognises and works with the strengths and constraints of team dynamics.
• Leads the development of comprehensive stakeholder management strategies and plans.
• Builds long-term, strategic relationships with senior stakeholders (internal and external). Facilitates the engagement of stakeholders in support of the delivery of services and change projects. Acts as a single point of contact for senior stakeholders, facilitating relationships between them.
• Negotiates to ensure that stakeholders understand and agree on what will meet their needs, and that appropriate agreements are defined.
• Recruit, train and employ high calibre employees within budget, headcount levels and temporary resource requirements.
• Coach, mentor, and develop staff, including overseeing new employee onboarding and providing career development planning and opportunities.
• Provide oversight and direction to employees in accordance with the firm’s policies, procedures, standards and SLAs.
• Hold regular one-to-ones with direct reports ensuring that feedback is provided in a constructive way whilst working with the employee to facilitate personal development.
• Ensure that an effective performance review is operated in line with department guidelines, including setting objectives, personal development planning and performance standards with all direct reports.
• Working with the Head of Change and HR Business Partner, develop a culture of performance management, improvement and appraisal as a foundation for excellent organisational performance.

WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF YOU HAVE:

• Experience managing a Programme/Project’s budget on behalf of the Portfolio Manager/Head of Change, monitoring the expenditures and costs against delivered and realised benefits
• The ability to builds good, long-lasting relationships with both internal and external customers, ability to handle challenge & conflict.
• A drive for improvement and encourages others to drive excellence
• The ability to work well under pressure, handles ambiguity, frequent change, or unpredictability
• Experience making Plans and organise a team to ensure delivery is achieved
• Great interpersonal skills
• The ability to delivers strategic change projects and change outcomes on a wide range of medium to large complex projects. Single function and enterprise-wide business and technical change
• Skills in project management methodologies and lifecycles, and ability to tailor delivery styles aligning to the appropriate methodology for the project
• Experience of hybrid working collaborating and driving delivery across both face to face and virtual relationships
• Proficient use of core Microsoft Applications

IT IS NOT ESSENTIAL BUT IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU ARE:

• Are experienced leading a significant number of business and/or technical project deliveries in financial services or other similar regulated environment
• Experienced in both traditional and agile methods

We are an inclusive organisation and committed to ensuring our recruitment process is as accessible as possible to everyone. We will make adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition. If you need the job description or application form in an alternative format or would like to discuss the recruitment process with us, please email us at or request a call back.ABOUT USAt 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, wealth management services and securities trading. At Close Brothers we provide financial support and advice to small businesses and individuals in the UK. Our purpose is to help the people and businesses of Britain thrive over the long term.To find out more about Close Brothers, please visit our careers page:To find out more about life at Close Brothers:To find out more about our benefits:To find out more about our commitment to creating an inclusive environment:#LI-TG1 #LI-HybridClose Brothers is a leading UK merchant banking group providing lending, deposit taking, wealth management services and securities trading. We employ over 3,500 people, principally in the UK.Close Brothers is a leading UK merchant banking group providing lending, deposit taking, wealth management services and securities trading. We employ approximately 4,000 people, principally in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Close Brothers Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange.Our businesses have remained local as we continue to provide bespoke services, and developing long-term relationships ensuring our success in the future. We value our clients over everything else. What they do is important – they are the doers and makers of things, the wealth creators, the investors and the savers. We ensure our services meet their specific needs and invest to support them as they grow.These principles, founded in our past but applied to the modern world today, represent what we describe as ‘modern merchant banking’ – values that are embedded in our culture and that underpin everything we do.

Expected salary

Location

Brighton

Job date

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 06:19:53 GMT

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