Vice President, Project Management - Resiliency in London

The Vice President, Project Management will be:

• Responsible for delivery of a suite of Projects across Operational and Technology resilience.
• Responsible for developing, in conjunction with the Sponsor / Project Owner, a definition of the project(s) and ensures the project(s) is effectively resourced and manages the relationships with a wide range of groups (including all project contributors).
• Responsible for managing the work of consultants, allocating and utilizing resources in an efficient manner and maintaining a co-operative, motivated and successful team.
• Responsible and accountable for the delivery of several projects, whilst supporting the Portfolio Manager with timely information, escalations and portfolio wide issues.
• Responsible for detailed project reporting and strict governance adherence.
• Responsible for demonstrating that stated benefits have been realized once the project has been delivered.

Essential Function / major duties and responsibilities of the job:

• Defines plans through a rigorous and highly interactive process of defining business requirements, project specifications, managing resources and environments.
• Agrees and formalizes plans, conducts or co-ordinates required business analysis where necessary.
• Relationship management; develop and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, both internal and external.
• Presents plans and business cases and gains their sign off from sponsors and other stakeholders.
• Ensures the benefits are measurable and agreed by all stakeholders.
• Follows the Project Framework adhering to all required governance.
• Keeps a tight control on projects costs and time booking.

• Manage day-to-day operational aspects of a project, scope, and budget.
• Manage and maintain interlock of projects with other project managers.
• Create and execute project work plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Effectively apply, support and champion the CLS Governance methodology and enforce project standards.
• Review deliverables prepared by the project team before company-wide review.
• Identify all project resources and where necessary work with the PMO to secure project support resources.
• Identify and lead the virtual project team.
• Manage, mitigate, and report project risks and issues.
• Where required, recruiting project staff and consultants.
• Managing co-ordination of the partners and working groups engaged in project work.
• Ensure project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.
• Detailed project planning and control including:

• Developing and maintaining a detailed project plan.
• Managing project deliverables in line with the project plan.
• Recording and managing project issues and escalating where necessary.
• Resolving cross-functional issues at project level.
• Managing project scope and change control.
• Monitoring project progress and performance from a benefit realization, time, cost, and quality perspective.
• Providing status reports.
• Liaison with, and updates progress to, project steering board/senior management.
• From time to time, provide cover for peers and assist in the creation and issuance of departmental reports.
• Understand basic revenue models, P/L, and cost-to-completion projections, apply analysis to this data to make project decisions and provide reporting of this data.

• Coach and mentor and lead junior members of staff.
• Display complete ownership for projects leading by example.
• Capable of managing a project team effectively through matrix management. Need to be able to get the best out of a team of people who are not direct reports.
• Experienced at managing stakeholders ensuring effective communication and governance is in place.
• Influence and manage the project teams (internal and external) to deliver to the required constraints of time, budget, and quality.

• Significant practical experience of leading and managing Projects across diverse domains including ones within operational or technology resilience.
• Extensive hands-on experience of delivering complex change programs across an end-to-end project lifecycle gained within a large high regulated organization.
• Understands Operational Resilience frameworks, strategic alignment, Risk Assessments, Regulatory Compliance implementations and IT security Frameworks.
• Experience with tools such as enterprise repositories, Configuration Databases and Operational Resilience platforms.
• Understands change management and implementation on new policies, process and tools.
• Have responsibility of delivering change programs with budgets more than £1m.
• Excellent communication skills with practical experience of supporting technical teams to formulate and articulate business benefits through the construction of business cases.
• Demonstrable experience of quantifying the effort required to deliver a solution whilst articulating any implications of any proposed solution on the wider business and existing systems.
• Experienced in creating well-structured, quality project documentation with excellent skills in the use of the MS Office suite of tools and MS Project.
• Experience of using PlanView or similar, to produce and maintain high quality project plans.
• Strong personal work ethic and excellent inter-personal skills.

• CBCI / CRISC / CISSP / ISO22301 Lead Implementer.
• Formal training Project Management (MSP/PRINCE2/PMI/APM/SIX SIGMA).
• Professional PM accreditation (Prince 2, PMI, APM etc.).

• Proactive Leader – Strong management skills which make you effective at leading a project team, negotiating with Senior Managers, stakeholders and external suppliers and contractors. You should be able to positively influence all stakeholders to ensure a cost-effective quality deliverable whilst ensuring effective time management to get the job done.
• Strong communicator – Be able to demonstrate a number of years of experience of communicating clearly at all levels within a business and with senior sponsors and internal and external stakeholders. Be well experienced in both the "Art" as well as the "Science" of project management to ensure that CLS obtains the maximum value for its investment.
• Delivery of Business Benefits – A comprehensive understanding and demonstrable experience in ensuring that all projects deliver quantified business benefits.
• Excellent Problem-solving skills – Demonstrable competencies in solving problems. Always challenging 'facts' in order to find the best plan to deliver the project. Where and when necessary, escalate early and appropriately to management prior to avoid issues and deviations to plan.
• Consultative relationship management – Gets to the heart of the issues with a presence and gravitas and clarity of presentation across all forms of communication.
• Strong People Management Skills – Able to bring the best out of people and a team through leading by example and by coaching and mentoring staff members and developing personalised self-development plans.