Senior Project Manager

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Job Title:Senior Project Manager

Location:Solihull / Hybrid role

Hours:Permanent-Full Time

A bit about us:

At BNP Paribas Personal Finance, we're part of a global bank and are proud to be a Top Employer UK, providing a great place to work in an open and inclusive environment.

We're here to provide simple and straightforward consumer finance solutions and we work with many well-known retailers and brands to help their customers finance their purchases in a responsible way.

We care about making a positive impact for our colleagues, customers, partners and the wider community. That's why we live by our values of we're positive, we're brave and we own it.

The Role:

The Senior Project Manager role is to deliver large sized (£0-£6m plus) projects by actively managing cross functional teams and work streams, risks and delivering to specified timescales, budget and quality, to achieve the benefits defined within the business case. This also includes the ability to guide and lead stakeholders up to executive level.

Projects allocated are from business wide programmes of change within the BNP Paribas Personal Finance UK Strategic Portfolio.

Key Responsibilities:

• Follow, assist in the improvement and adoption of the BNP Paribas Personal Finance UK Project Management Methodology and use standard project templates to produce various key project management documents, providing feedback to improve templates
• Identify external and internal resources needed by the project and ensure they are secured and efficiently deployed
• Produce a project plan and maintain it by monitoring project or work stream activities to the plan
• Notify Project Sponsor, Project Steering Group and PMO of any deviations (outside of tolerances) to the plan and identify and take corrective actions
• Manage the project teams or work streams on a day to day basis to ensure required products are produced and delivered as specified/defined via the work packages or work assigned to ensure specific project deliverables are delivered as agreed
• Liaise with and hold checkpoint meetings with project / work stream team plus clients, partners, third parties and stakeholders, ensuring an effective and professional customer/provider relationship is established and maintained
• Manage the project budget to achieve the Business Case and highlight under and over spends outside of agreed tolerances to the Finance Department in order for the appropriate accounting actions to take place
• Make key decisions on behalf of the BNP Paribas Personal Finance UK Group, taking direction from the Project Sponsor and Project Steering Group, plus advice from various Business and Technical Managers, plus Head of Business Transformation, who are key stakeholders for the assigned projects
• Assist and guide in recommendations to the Project Sponsor and Project Steering Group, where decisions are outside the remit of the Senior Project Manager.
• Manage interdependencies and interfaces between the various work streams of the project

Skills required:

• An experienced Leader
• Risk, Finance and Data governance experience
• Proven record of managing projects within Technology and Regulations
• Prince 2 or APM certified
• Delivery focused/results driven
• Effective risk assessment and management
• Excellent stakeholder management skills
• Proven budget control and cost management

Could this be you?

BNP Paribas Personal Finance believeit's a positive attitude and passion to make things happen that matters most.

What's in it for you?

As well as working for a Top Employer UK 2023 and being part of a team that changes customer's lives, there are some excellentbenefitstoo including- acompetitive salary, a contributory pension scheme, plus life insurance and private medical insurance, not to mention the all-important 25 days holiday each year to enjoy.There are also perks which give you fantastic discounts off eating out, cinema tickets, days out and much more.There are also monthly awards with plenty of opportunities to win vouchers and prizes. Learn more about what it means to be part of the BNP Paribas Personal Finance team here: BNP Paribas Personal Finance UK - YouTube or click here to learn more about careers at BNP Paribas Personal Finance: Careers (bnpparibas-pf.co.uk) .

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BNP Paribas Personal Finance promotes equality of opportunity and is committed to ensure that no individual is discriminated against on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.