Transformation Programme Manager
Dublin Location, Permanent Contract
Our client in the financial services industry is embarking on a significant transformation, aiming to deliver on their corporate strategy and achieve cost and performance efficiencies. This will enable them to identify and capture growth opportunities for the future.
Your Key Responsibilities:
- Develop a strong understanding of core business operations through project involvement and delivery across areas such as strategy, operating model design, customer experience design, lean process improvement, organisational design, and transformation design and delivery.
- Utilise your skills in structured problem solving, business analysis, analytics, design thinking, and lean process improvement to drive profitability and performance improvement.
- Identify areas for process improvement across existing ways of working, including system, process, or people changes.
- Effectively analyse and define business requirements through stakeholder engagement and reviewing existing processes.
- Manage people and project teams, engaging directly with senior stakeholders to drive business outcomes, including facilitation of interviews, workshops, and project governance sessions.
- Be involved in projects across the end-to-end project lifecycle, from business case development to project execution and close-out.
- Communicate complex ideas effectively, both verbally and in writing.
- Help identify problems, opportunities, and ideate methods for improving existing business processes and workflows.
- Contribute to shaping creative and innovative solutions to address issues.
- Communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders, as required.
Qualifications:
- Excellent relationship management skills, gained through prior consulting roles or within financial services / technology organisations.
- Minimum of 8-10 years in delivering transformation programmes in Financial Institutes.
- Strong verbal and written communication, with experience in presenting to key senior stakeholders.
- Understanding of trends and implications on the Financial Services industry.
- Demonstrate professionalism, establishing personal credibility and expertise quickly.
Ideal Qualifications:
- Strong numeric analysis, presentation, Process Mapping, and requirement-gathering skills.
- Proven analytic and workshop facilitation skills.
- Experience in applying best practice Business and Process Analysis techniques.
- Proven experience in developing structured presentations using PowerPoint and analytic skills using Excel.
- Proven track record of leading teams.
- Lean six sigma and/or BCS training/certification an advantage.
- Project Management and/or Agile certification is an advantage.
What We Look For:
- Someone who thrives in a community that values integrity, respect, teaming, inclusiveness, and building high-performing teams.
- Someone with energy, enthusiasm, and courage who enjoys solving complex problems and variety in their day-to-day work life.
- Someone passionate about reaching their full potential and excelling in their career.
Morgan McKinley is acting as an Employment Agency. References to pay rates are indicative.