Your role
We may be part of a large banking Group, but we’re a small, tight-knit bank with a focused business model and a growing team. Within our Data Management team, we are looking to hire a Senior Project Manager.
As a Senior Project Manager at Lloyds Bank, you will lead a pivotal Data Management Project aimed at bringing the bank into compliance with the RDARR requirements from the ECB Guide on effective risk data aggregation and risk reporting. You will align data producers, data managers, and data users within the organization to ensure a coordinated approach.
A day in the life of a Senior Project Manager
Your day begins with a team stand-up meeting, where you review the progress of key milestones with the Data Team and accountable executives. You then dive into stakeholder meetings, discussing compliance strategies and data management practices. After lunch, you focus on project governance, preparing status reports and addressing any risks or issues that have arisen. The afternoon is dedicated to resource management, ensuring that the project stays on track with its budget and timelines. You wrap up the day by reviewing supplier performance and planning for the next phase of the project
Which team will you be joining?
You will work in agile project teams, with up to 30-40 people from various departments. In this role you will work on:
- Project Set Up and Closure: Ensure alignment with business strategy, agreement on project benefits, and methods for measuring and tracking these benefits post-implementation. Work with the business area to ensure an effective approach to business implementation, handover, and acceptance of the change.
- Governance and Reporting: Work closely with Accountable Executives and portfolio management to provide regular status reporting.
- Project Delivery: Define and implement a detailed delivery approach for each stage of the project lifecycle, obtain acceptance and buy‐in from all team members. Produce and own all project management deliverables, using agile project methodologies.
- Planning and Finance: Control, manage, and monitor project timescales and budgets, reporting variances, escalating as appropriate.
- Risk Management: Monitor projects for risk issues and regulatory compliance, take appropriate steps to mitigate.
- Resource Management: Track resource requirements, budget, and FTE profile for areas of responsibility.
- Supplier Management: Oversee sourcing process and steer supplier relationships, ensure quality, timely delivery, support contract management, and drive continuous improvement in our supplier collaboration processes.
- Stakeholder Management: Identify key stakeholders and develop an appropriate stakeholder communication plan. Engage with stakeholders to influence the direction of projects and priority setting.
- Functional Leadership: Build strong project teams with a clear way of working, a shared purpose, and shared responsibility towards delivery. Engage openly and comfortably with diverse groups. Recognize group dynamics and adapt to work effectively within them. Resolve team conflicts and foster greater group harmony.
You recognize yourself in this profile
Skils, experience and knowledge
- Professional Experience: Several years of relevant professional experience in classic and agile project environments based on recognized standards (e.g., PMI, IPMA, SCRUM, KANBAN, Prince2).
- Project Leadership: Track record in leading cross-functional projects, including supplier and partner management, preferably in multinational banking, financial services industry, or IT implementation projects.
- Technical Skills: Experience in requirements, test, and change management.
- Regulatory Knowledge: Knowledge of banking supervisory, IT governance, regulatory, and legal requirements is a plus.
- Communication Skills: Excellent communication in English; business writing, presentation, and influencing skills (German a strong plus).
- Technical Proficiency: Proficiency in MS Office (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint), Jira, and Confluence.
Qualifications
Some highlights of our benefits for you!
- 13th month salary, either paid monthly or once a year in December
- 30 days PTO (or 240 hours) per year (based on fulltime employment)
- Non-contributory pension scheme
- Flexible working; you can schedule your work hours to meet your personal needs
Your recruitment process
Apply to our vacancies by sending your CV and motivation letter to stanley.waccary@lloydsbank.nl, or use the application form on our website. After receiving your application, we'll review it and share a reply as soon as possible.
Your first chat with us will take place either online or at our Amsterdam office. The goal of this chat is get to know each other, and see if there's a match with the team, the organisation and the open position.
We're excited to have you meet additional collagues. The chat will take place either online or at our Amsterdam office, during which we'll dive deeper into the requirements of the position and the team you'll be joining.
Congratulations! We're happy to have you as our newest addition to the team. Do you feel the same way? Then you'll receive our offer by email. For most roles, a screening is part of the process. This will take place after accepting the offer.
About Lloyds Bank
Lloyds Bank GmbH is part of Lloyds Banking Group, a financial institution with a large clientele in the UK and other parts of the world. Together with our office in Berlin, we form Lloyds Bank GmbH with its headquarters in Amsterdam and we have over 500 colleagues.
We aim to lead by example in the bold decisions we make as a business, from where and how we invest, to the products and services we offer, and of course the workplace we create. We will search for new ways to work with people, communities and businesses, to always evolve with their needs. And we will never stop innovating to make sustainable, ethical choices easy and rewarding.
At Lloyds Bank GmbH we play an important part in peoples’ lives, by the products we offer, and also how we operate. We finance your mortgage, keep your savings secure and also provide you with a personal loan if you need this. In Amsterdam we do this with an enthusiastic team of approximately 200 colleagues from different nationalities, and with an engagement score of 93%, colleagues find us a real ‘Great Place to Work’!
With our grand ambitions, we are looking for new colleagues who will bring fresh ideas to help us grow!
Are you ready to join our journey?
Have we made you curious, and are you ready to join the team? Please introduce yourself to us in the best way possible and send this to: stanley.waccary@lloydsbank.nl, or use the application form on our website. A screening is part of the process.
We hope to meet you soon!
Acquisition to this vacancy is not appreciated.