Technical Project Manager - 12 month FTC

WeAreTechWomen; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000

Job description

As a Project Manager in the Business Integration team, you'll be responsible for a team of mixed-discipline professionals. The team are delivering enterprise initiatives and strategically aligned outcomes spanning across multiple products, for maximum return on investment, to time, budget and scope. You will manage the discovery, development, execution and delivery of technology solutions in order to deliver business case value, defining the most appropriate method for delivering change through estimation, planning and delivery.

As a people leader you'll be a role model for the values that we want to recognise and nurture in our teams; an innovative learning culture, efficiency and a team actively reducing cost of change for the Society through championing insight based and data driven design.

As part of the Chief Operations Office, we have committed to modernising our member propositions and internal applications, which means providing a highly resilient and available platform with robust enterprise services. As a Business Integration Project Manager you'll be working with teams to build, maintain and evolve our digital offerings, ensuring our services are functional, secure and have the capacity to scale effortlessly.

We are happy to consider flexible working approaches to help you perform at your best.

At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible. More rewarding relationships are supported through our hybrid approach, bringing colleagues together across our UK wide estate, whilst also supporting generous access to home working. We value our time in the office to solve problems, to learn, and to feel connected.

For this job you'll be located at our nearest regional hub. There will be a need to regularly connect with colleagues for collaboration events in one of our office sites. This is anticipated to be monthly in Swindon. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works. You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here.

This role is a 12 month Fixed Term Contract.

If we receive a high volume of relevant applications, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so please apply as soon as you can.
What you'll be doing

An integral role as a Project Manager is to pro-actively identify and escalate risks/blockers within an initiative, and to resolve them to the best of your ability. You'll be using your skills to seek out opportunities for continuous improvement, as well as assisting with post-completion reviews to establish areas for development.

We're looking for a technology focussed Project Manager with passion, creativity and determination that will help us uncover the best ways of delivering value in the future. You will need a technology background to be able to query and challenge solutions.

On a day-to-day basis you'll be leading diverse teams, working to ensure that workforce resource is allocated to the right place at the right time. This role is a natural point of escalation and as a successful candidate you will influence a collaborative team culture of accountable freedom and development, working towards outcomes focused on change.

For the role of Project Manager, we are looking for a demonstrated track record of running governance and projects in financial services, including demonstrable knowledge of delivering technology change within financial services and/or experience of delivering change across middleware technologies.
About you

• A proven background in project management; defining project scope, objectives, and deliverables in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Experience in delivery of large-scale technology transformation programmes in financial services with a deep knowledge of different change methodologies (Agile/Waterfall).
• Experience in managing technology projects together with upskilling other members of the delivery team.
• Experience in technology integration and migration so that you can challenge solution decisions based on time pressures.
• Own the end-to-end technical delivery of strategic programmes.
• Worked with multiple vendors & suppliers to deliver key milestones and experience working with an offshore delivery model.
• Able to develop comprehensive project plans, including schedules, resource plans, risk management plans, and communication plans.
• Experience in establishing project baselines, tracking progress and performance measurement metrics and insights.
• Experience coordinating and leading cross-functional project teams, assigning tasks and responsibilities to team members.

Our customer first behaviours put customers and members at the heart of how we work together. They are the set of behaviours that every colleague needs to display, in every role:

• Feel what customers feel - We step into our customers' shoes, using their feedback and insights to empathise with them and to understand their needs, so that every decision we make starts and finishes with our customers in mind.
• Say it straight - We are brave in speaking out and saying what we think - we're honest and direct with good intent, openly sharing diverse perspectives to reach the best conclusions and using language everyone can understand.
• Push for better - We don't settle for mediocrity, we challenge the status quo, taking responsibility for continuous improvement and personal development.
• Get it done - We prioritise what will have the greatest impact, we are decisive, and we take accountability for delivering brilliant customer outcomes.

You can strengthen your application by showing how our customer first behaviours resonate with you, and where you may have already demonstrated these.

The extras you'll get

There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:

• A personal pension - if you put in 7% of your salary, we'll top up by a further 16%.
• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year.
• Life assurance worth 8x your salary.
• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme.
• Wellhub - Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness.
• Access to an annual performance related bonus.
• Access to training to help you develop and progress your career.
• 25 days holiday, pro rata.

Banking - but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society

We forge our own path at Nationwide.

As a mutual, we're owned by our members - those customers who bank, save or have a mortgage with us. We challenge the financial sector status quo. We don't see customers as the engine of our own profit. We share our profits with them and put their needs first. Always there when they need us. Supporting them and their lives.

If you're inspired by fairer finances, passionate about making a meaningful impact, and truly care about our customers, you're one of us.

At Nationwide, you are challenged to grow and rewarded for doing so. Valued. Recognised. Inspired to be your best. As a community we want our working lives to count. As a team, we celebrate what we achieve. As a standard-setter, we work for the good of customers, communities, and broader society.

We are Purpose-driven. Uncompromisingly Customer. Unstoppably Nationwide.

What to do next

If this role is for you, please click the 'Apply Now' button. You'll need to attach your up-to-date CV and answer a few quick questions for us.

We respond to everyone, so we will be in contact shortly after the closing date to let you know the outcome of your application.

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