Programme Manager - Enterprise Change

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Overview of Group Change Team

Change management at Schroders follows a hub and spoke distributed model with the divisional change teams embedded within each business divisions. Each divisional change team is connected to and part of a central Group change department consisting of a cross divisional enterprise change function, an internal management consultancy team and an operational excellence function. Together these specialist change management resources collaborate to ensure the successful delivery of strategic outcomes prioritised in the best interest of the company.

The Enterprise Change team has responsibility from cross divisional and enterprise change initiatives initiated in response to M&A, Productivity, Regulatory, Data and Maintenance strategies of the organisation. Typically these programmes will be larger in nature and may require a programme manger who is managing multiple change managers, or are complex and disruptive.

 Overview of role

We are looking for a Programme Manager to manage the delivery of the change in Risk Free Rate.

Key duties

Work with business sponsors to:-

Establish project structure and governance

Interpret business requirements and agree appropriate project objectives

Build and maintain the delivery plan 

Ensure project delivery teams are meeting planned delivery objectives: - time; quality; budget

Manage RAID 

Manage programme Financials

Report to project oversight and governance boards

Develop effective relationships across the business and the wider change management community

Provide subject matter expertise and recommend appropriately pragmatic approaches/solutions.

Essential Skills

Strong understanding of the Asset Management industry require

 Strong knowledge of data identification and management  

Experience of business process and technology change

 Credibility with business partners at all levels

 Logical, structured thought processes and good problem solving skills

Good relationship management skills - able to engage with and gain confidence of others and maximise their contribution to the process

Strong communication skills - written, pictorial, presentational and verbal at all levels within the organisation

Able to demonstrate initiative

 Able to work well in a team

 Focus on quality

 Experience of Agile working practices

 Personal Attributes

Can develop new ideas and approaches that impact on existing methods, policies and approaches.

 Self starter who is ready to own responsibility for coordinating and planning the objectives and activities.

 A technical minded person with a desire to keep abreast of ever changing Asset Management and technology industries.

 Confident enough to be able to challenge business ideas where they do meet stated objectives