Director, Project Manager (Change Management), HCM - 24 months Fixed Term Contract
Director, Project Manager (Change Management), HCM - 24 months Fixed Term Contract
SMBC Group- Posted 16 hours ago
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Job Description
Responsibilities:
- Develop, baseline and maintain the integrated workstream plan, defining scope, milestones, deliverables, resources, dependencies and critical paths.
- Drive day-to-day execution, monitor progress and quality, resolve delivery obstacles and implement recovery actions where required.
- Own governance, status reporting, forecasts, actions, decisions and the management and escalation of risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies.
- Coordinate internal teams, subject matter experts, technology partners, vendors and consulting resources, ensuring clear ownership and timely approvals.
- Manage stakeholder expectations globally and facilitate planning, requirements, decision-making and governance forums.
- Identify and track key change impacts and activities, liaising with stakeholders to determine proportionate interventions.
- Oversee communication, engagement and training plans, together with readiness and adoption measures.
- Coordinate requirements and dependencies for HR Knowledge and AI solutions across HR, technology, data, risk and control teams.
- Plan change activities for the new HR Operating Model, including role clarity, service transition and business readiness.
- Support deployment, cutover, stabilisation and transition to business-as-usual operations against agreed acceptance criteria.
- Degree-level qualification with 7 - 10 years of relevant professional working experience;recognised project management certification is desirable.
- Significant project management experience delivering large-scale, multi-workstream transformation programmes in complex global organisations.
- Demonstrated capability in planning, scheduling, resource coordination, deliverables management, governance, reporting and RAID control.
- Working knowledge of change management, including impact assessment, engagement, communications, training, readiness and adoption.
- Strong global stakeholder management, facilitation, influencing and communication skills.
- Experience gathering and managing business requirements across business, technology and third parties.
- Strong analytical, organisational and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities across time zones.
- Experience of global HR transformation, HR operating-model implementation or HR technology programmes is desirable.
- Exposure to HR knowledge management, digital employee services or AI-enabled solutions is advantageous.
- Experience within banking, financial services or another regulated environment is desirable.
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Key Skills
Deliverables management
HR knowledge management
Training readiness and adoption
Governance reporting
HR operating-model implementation
Digital employee services
RAID control
AI-enabled solutions
HR technology programmes
