Position Description

Head of Business Programme Management Office
Location Geneva
Job Code 8858
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  • Day to day management of the Group Business Project Management Office and matrix management of project managers embedded in the business lines
  • Implement and track adherence to these standards
  • Ensure the business elements of projects are run efficiently and within the above standards
  • Deliver regular project status updates to project stakeholders and group business heads 
  • Chair the monthly project update meeting which presents project status after they have passed the G2 stage
  • Ensure project reporting and budgeting is aligned between the BPMO and IT
  • Liaise with IT on the project pipeline to ensure appropriate consideration of business resource availability and allocation within the PMO
  • Develop and rollout a process for tracking and reporting the outcome from a project delivery, including an assessment of take up within the business lines
  • Ensure that the ‘business change’ aspects of projects is matured in the organisation, to cover target operating model definition, user education and system take up and effectiveness
  • Liaise with IT and the business lines to ensure that systems are handed off to the appropriate function once in BAU mode 
  • Intervene on ‘problematic’ projects to assess them and determine what changes may be required to bring the projects back on track.  Then work with senior business stakeholders to effect change
  • Develop the maturity of the business project management processes and tools used within UBP
Education:
Master Degree
Technical skills:
Years of experience:
+10 : senior
Exper. in financial sector:
Mandatory
Experience required:
  • Previous experience as Senior Project Manager role in a multi-location/international environment in the private banking industry (15+ years)
  • Excellent leadership and management skills, with a proven track record of building and leading high-performing teams (+15 years)
  • Successful track record of thinking strategically combined with a hands-on approach
  • Experience in leading complex business transformation programmes and change management
    • Local resident (Swiss):
    Mandatory
    Language 1:
    English
    Level 1:
    Fluent
    Language 2:
    French
    Level 2:
    Fluent
    Language 3:
    Level 3:
    Personal skills:
  • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
  • Strong business acumen, with the ability to understand the impact of technical solutions on business outcomes
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate technical information to non-technical stakeholders
    • Challenges:
    Foster, promote and maintain appropriate quality of business deliveries of COO teams with regards to several subjects at group level.
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