Role Title: Senior Delivery Manager/ Portfolio Manager
Location - Bingley, UK
Role Description:
Client is a new account where HCL has taken over in June2013 after a transition which lasted 18 months. At end of transition a change team was formed based on the pipeline view available at that time. The team has grown steadily in last 8 months and there are number of medium and large projects in the pipeline. Due to the nature of operations there are a number of small projects (100+) as well executed every month. The organisation structures and delivery teams are in place with relevant understanding of the landscape. This role is a lead to provide a holistic leadership to all large, medium and small projects being executed within the engagement. Portfolio includes a significant portion of infrastructure only and infra + apps projects. The teams reporting to this role will be - apps programme team, infra programme team and small projects team.
Required Skills
- Extensive experience in delivering managed portfolio of projects - with end to end responsibility from requirements-design-implementation- testing- handover to support.
- Good experience of delivering a portfolio of projects in integrated environment working with large teams (50+) owning responsibility for apps and infra changes.
- Experience in managing change portfolio in Financial Services organisation
- Personal attitude of responsibility and ownership; a "can do" attitude to drive various initiatives in the portfolio to tight timescales
- Ability to visualise the 'big picture' - enterprise-wide
- Extensive stakeholder management - including at senior level in HCL and customer organisation
- Strong and effective communication style - both oral and written
- Ability to challenge appropriately to customer and internal stakeholders.
- Ability to build trust and confidence within team and with customer
- Experience across multiple IT Disciplines will be a plus: Projects delivery, Service Delivery, Governance, process etc
Useful Skills - Business case development
- Standard tooling - Office, Visio, Powerpoint
