Project Manager EUS PM (GCB 4 equivalent)

In this role, you will:

Provide direct oversight of the programme(s)/ project(s) , financial and outcome accountability, reporting to a Portfolio Manager within CTO.

Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders within IT, Global Businesses, Finance

Work closely with their respective Portfolio Manager and their senior stakeholders to ensure alignment of their project/programme with the wider change portfolio and group strategy, values and behaviour.

Provide board level overview of progress, lead and direct multidisciplinary teams across all global businesses, global functions and regions.

Lead end to end execution and responsibility for all aspects of the project/programme, including definition, planning, execution & implementation, governance & control, financial, resource and change management.

Provide financial analysis, including being able to contextualize financial data into business activities and conclusions.

Ensure the adherence to financial processes and procedures at project/programme level, as set and communicated by HSBC Group, regulators and CTO PPM Practice.

Own the identification and escalation of any budgetary related risks, issues and opportunities to portfolio/function as appropriate.

Have responsibility for effective handover of the project/programme into Business-as-Usual operations to support effective benefits realisation.

Have responsibility for deploying the Business Transformation Frameworks and respective methodologies within their Programme/Project and instilling good programme/project disciplines within their project and wider team.

Requirements

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:

15+ years of relevant IT experience, with minimum 5+ years of experience in project and programme

Excellent understanding and proven experience of Programme and Project Management methodologies including Waterfall and Agile.

Ability to direct and influence people in a matrix orientated environment and establish working partnerships at a junior and senior organizational level.

Proven experience of positive, challenging interactions with Senior Executives across the business.

Outstanding relationship management, collaboration and influencing skills.

Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills with a proven ability to communicate effectively and confidently at all levels across the Group.

Change agent with proven ability of implementing large scale organizational, procedural, technology and people related change programmes.

INTERNAL

Proven ability to articulate complex issues concisely and in simple language to recognise to the global remit of this role.

Expert knowledge of managing and steering technical blockers for the project/ programme.

Strong financial analytical background and proven ability in financial/analytical reasoning, including being able to contextualize financial data into business activities and conclusions.

Experience of delivering large scale change programmes within a Technology organization, with Infrastructure experience.

High level of drive and motivation to ensure delivery of a broad range of outputs simultaneously across HSBC.

Experience of leading and managing teams with proven track record of working with diverse, cross functional teams that are located regionally and worldwide.

Experience of driving continuous improvement

Prior experience working in End user services and Infrastructure Projects

Should have managed end to end project ~$5m

Technology exposure and experience in: (optional good to have)

Landing Zones: Private and Public Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure & Ali)

Collaboration: Microsoft 365, Outlook, Teams and Zoom

Hardware: Cisco, HP, Dell, IBM, Lenovo

Operations: Aternity, SCOM, AppDynamics, Microsoft Intune

Software Management: Ansible, JIRA, GitHub, Jenkins, Confluence

Others: ESX, vCenter, Citrix, VDI & VDA

Skillsets required:

Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting

Setting Governance Structure

Proficiency in Excel & Powerpoint

Story Telling

Engaging Stakeholder at the right level

Problem solving

Critical thinking

Decision Making

Adaptability

Collaborative