Associate Director - Project Management

Location

Wellingborough, Northamptonshire | United Kingdom

Job description

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR – PROJECT MANAGEMENT

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Weatherbys to play a part in its future success.

The Associate Director is a senior role responsible for the delivery of strategic projects that transform the business. You will be a key enabler, ensuring delivery of our largest and most complex programmes within time and budget, and to the highest quality. These programmes are often sponsored by the Chief Executive Officer and are critical to the Bank achieving its strategic plans.

Ideally you would be based in our Wellingborough office on a hybrid model for collaboration with the Change and IT teams, however we are open to discussion about one of our other locations.

WHY JOIN US?

This newly created role offers an opportunity to significantly transform Weatherbys Bank and is focussed on the delivery of key projects. Your role will be highly visible, working with people at all levels across all areas of the Bank including our Executive and Board. As an organisation we strive for excellence in everything we do, providing an exemplary level of service to both external and internal clients while acting with integrity and kindness.

Salary will be offered based on experience. Benefits include 25 days’ annual leave (rising to 28 with length of service), free medical insurance, pension scheme, onsite subsidised restaurant (Wellingborough), free onsite parking (Wellingborough) and a range of discounts and benefits through our Reward Gateway platform.

WHAT YOUR DAY WILL LOOK LIKE

• Delivering a portfolio of strategic projects.
• Owning all stages of the project lifecycle from inception through to delivery.
• Managing key stakeholders, including the Executive, Board and Regulators.
• Developing business cases which determine the strategic direction of the Bank.
• Ensuring appropriate governance is followed and being a key stakeholder in enhancing our change policy and related processes.
• Managing third party suppliers to ensure projects are completed within time and budget constraints.
• Identifying, managing, and reporting on project risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies.
• Supporting colleagues across the Bank, both in the Change and IT space, as well as those who have no formal project management background to identify project tasks, timelines, and resource requirements. 

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Significant experience of successful project delivery in Financial Services.
• Project management qualifications covering waterfall and agile, e.g., Prince2, PMP, Scrum Master or recognised equivalent.
• Experience managing large project teams and third party suppliers.
• Proven experience in project risk management and mitigation.
• Able to work with technical teams, understanding system change requirements and delivering these successfully to end users.
• Highly credible at stakeholder management with excellent people and relationship building skills.

WHO WE ARE

Weatherbys is one of the best regarded independent banking groups in the UK, winning Private Bank of the Year at the Spear’s UK Wealth Management awards in both 2021 and 2023. As you would expect from a business with ambitious growth plans, we are continually evolving and looking to the future, but always put our clients at the heart of everything we do. Don’t just take our word for it, find out more here:

JOIN THE FUTURE OF FAMILY BANKING.

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