Program Manager

Role : Program Manager Hybrid (2-3 Days) Location : Belfast Contract / FTE (Fixed Term Employment - 1 Year) : The role requires a comprehensive understanding of how all value units products regions legal entities collectively integrate alongside a comprehensive knowledge of the industry in order to contribute to the commercial objectives of client Leadership

• Management responsibilities through subordinate managers performing diverse activities cross discipline eg Finance Technology Banking
• Covers a wide range of activities that require evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual and qualitative information in complicated perhaps novel situations
• Innovation To what extent does the role contribute to and manage change eg suggest improvements to products processes
• Is proactive in developing ideas continuously searching for improvements in techniques which add value to the business and has full responsibility for implementation
• Accountability decision making What level of decision making is required of the role and on what decisions does it impact
• Latitude to make decisions outside of established procedures but within a policy framework
• Broad guidelines are available Role implements strategy set by others Strategic Responsibility Creates business plans for own teams and expected to contribute into value unit region product legal entity strategy Communication
• The role requires the ability to guide persuade and influence others through the developed skills of communication and diplomacy
• The job is likely to be involved in both internal and external negotiations which will have a major impact on the function and possibly the entire business unit Attributes
• 12 years of experience in programme portfolio or transformation delivery including a sustained track record of leading large complex and globally distributed change portfolios to agreed outcomes timelines budgets risk parameters and benefits
• Extensive experience directing largescale platform and data migration transformations including SAS environments
• Able to govern option analysis target state direction roadmap development environment readiness testing parallel running cutover backout planning and decommissioning across multiple programmes or workstreams
• Deep understanding of SAS migration dependencies including code remediation data lineage
• reconciliation control requirements operational readiness and postmigration assurance
• Able to challenge technical proposals assess tradeoffs and make informed enterprise level delivery investment and risk decisions
• Significant experience leading complex enterprise-wide technology transformations across multiple business areas platforms and geographies with accountability for overall transformation outcomes rather than only individual project or workstream delivery
• Proven ability to own transformation governance enterprise scope benefits realization RAID oversight cross programme dependencies stage gates assurance and audit ready documentation
• Confident driving timely decisions accountability and delivery pace across multiple workstreams programmes and global teams
• Proven experience influencing and aligning executive and senior stakeholders across business engineering operations risk security control functions and suppliers
• Able to secure agreement on target state priorities funding sequencing readiness adoption and material delivery tradeoffs
• Extensive experience delivering complex change within regulated financial institutions with a strong understanding of risk management security controls operations audit and regulatory expectations
• Able to govern risk acceptance exceptions and remediation at transformation level
• Experience owning or contributing to investment cases financial forecasts resource strategies delivery capacity Skills Mandatory Skills : Agile (Value-Driven Delivery), Benefits Management, Project Planning, Resource Management, Stakeholder Management Recruiter's Email : shikharsharma@thriveitsystems.com