Planning Manager

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We're on a journey to build the bank of the future, and we need your help!

We've an exciting opportunity for you to join our team and play a leading role in helping to grow our Wealth and Pensions business. You'd be helping us bring together the strengths of Lloyds Banking Group with one of the UK's fastest growing financial services businesses and one of the leading retirement solutions providers in the UK - Embark Group.

We're looking to bring a keen focus to our wealth and investment product offerings to help our customers achieve their financial goals. Through our acquisition of Embark, we'll seek to improve how we serve and support our customers through modern, easy to use, ground breaking technology, whilst also modernising the way Scottish Widows works with intermediaries.

This opportunity is the next exciting piece of the jigsaw for LBG and you could be part of it!

As a "Planning - Project Manager", you'll be responsible for multiple individual plans and all associated activity, including the overall master plan to ensure all deliverables align.

You'll build, maintain, update and enhance workstream/Programme plans, including significant dependency management in MS Project format.

Reporting is a large part of the role and you'll be responsible for delivering consistent reporting of 'progress against plan' noting Issue/Impact/Action commentary for Red/Amber milestones/activities as appropriate, utilising and providing high quality PowerPoint documents and the use of MS Project to facilitate all updates provided.

You will work in a highly collaborative way, working closely with other specialists and engineers from LBG, suppliers and partner resources.

You would also play a key role identifying the business needs, interpreting complex data and lead the efficient and effective production of high quality information, analysis and research, anticipating partner's needs.

Here's where you'll make a difference

Attention to detail is one of the key skills when it comes to MSP plan management

Confident with generating a Plan on a Page, walking through plan Look Ahead Reports with stakeholders, and using tools such as PowerPoint to aid in your reporting is key

Fully interlocked plan dependency tracking is key to manage MSP plans at local and wider levels

Identifying and engaging key project partners to form solid working relationships

Working effectively to ensure a coordinated and collaborative approach to delivering change.

About You:

You're a dynamic and adaptable individual - able to use & learn new skills & knowledge in varying circumstances

You're able to remain calm and lead the team effectively through constrained timescales and difficult programmes.

You've a well-developed communication kit bag with extensive customer management experience

You can influence partners of all levels and balance partners expectations and facilitate discussions across high risk and complexity or under constrained timescales.

You'll be skilled in Leading and minimising operational risks

And you'll influence positively - demonstrating similar values and behaviours to our Group's and encouraging this in team members

Ideally you'll also bring:

Previous experience of delivering change across LBG

Understanding of Project Management methodologies and techniques and their practical application

Ability to adopt new ways of working and finding a way to incorporate agile practices

What we'll give you in return:

We want you to experience the freedom and autonomy to realise your potential, share your ideas and make them happen and feel supported and listened to by a team that celebrates individuality and independent thought, encourages different perspectives, and embraces every background.

Together we make it possible!

We'll also give you a broad remuneration package which includes:

A performance share bonus

A generous pension contribution

A flex cash pot you can adjust to suit your lifestyle

Private health cover

30 days holiday plus bank holidays

Various share schemes including free shares

We're an equal opportunity employer and deeply value diversity within our organisation.

We're happy to consider options other than 9-to-5 office-based work. To us "Agile working" is more than working flexibly - it's about entrusting colleagues to think creatively about how, when and where they work, to deliver their very best.

Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-led culture that celebrates diversity, equal opportunity and provides opportunities for flexible working.

We'll ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.

Are you interested in joining our team? Apply today; we'd love to hear from you.....