Workday

Programme Manager

Workday

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Knutsford • United Kingdom

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About the role

  • To manage change projects that help the organisation achieve its strategic objectives.
  • Management of change projects within the organisation, ensuring that they are delivered on time, within scope, budget, and to the required quality standards.
  • Development and management of project plans that outline the scope, objectives, timelines, and resource requirements for change projects.
  • Communication with stakeholders, including senior management, project teams, and external partners.
  • Management of project teams, ensuring that they are properly resourced.
  • Management of project budgets, ensuring that projects are delivered within the agreed budget.
  • Creation of reports on project progress to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
  • Management of project risks, ensuring that risk, assumptions, issues and dependencies are identified, assessed, and mitigated as necessary.
  • Facilitation of change management activities, including training and communication.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated delivery of complex change across multi workstream programmes spanning technology, operations, and customer journeys, managing interdependencies across platforms and teams from inception to embedment and handover to BAU.
  • Proven ability to managing the delivery in a matrix organisation with a wide range of stakeholders, including first and second line functions, such as Compliance, Legal, Risk, Controls, Technology Operations and ExCo/ExCo-1.
  • Fluent in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies, with the ability to tailor governance, planning, and controls to align with business outcomes and the delivery context.
  • A background in Finance, with a strong understanding of the sector’s operating environment.
  • Experience operating in a regulated environment, with a solid understanding of regulatory accountability and the ability to ensure traceability of end-state solutions to relevant regulations and/or contractual obligations.
  • Comfortable working in ambiguous environments, maintaining delivery momentum and discipline as priorities, regulatory interpretations, or scope evolve over time.
  • Strong business acumen, ability to balance business outcomes with customer impact, operational practicality, and technological feasibility.
Benefits
  • professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
project managementchange managementAgile methodologyWaterfall methodologybudget managementrisk managementstakeholder communicationproject planningreport creationresource management
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationorganizational skillsbusiness acumenadaptabilityproblem-solvingcollaborationnegotiationstrategic thinkinginterpersonal skills