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PMO Governance Lead | S3 | Milton Keynes/Hybrid

Country: United Kingdom

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Our Tech Team at Santander UK is growing, and we have exciting opportunity for PMO Governance Lead to help us continue leading the way in innovative banking.

The PMO Governance Lead is a strategic role responsible for managing the BAU and day to day Project Management Office\xe2\x80\x99s governance processes/systems, to ensure that projects are executed in alignment with the organisation\xe2\x80\x99s goals, standards and best practices.

As a technical specialist, you will implement and maintain project management methodologies, processes and policies, providing the required governance and leadership across the team and organisation, as well as providing support to Project Managers and stakeholders.

Join us in reshaping the future of Santander and help make a difference for our customers.

The difference you\xe2\x80\x99ll make:

Leading all governance aspects of the change portfolio within the Infrastructure, Operations and End User Technology organisation with a comprehensive framework to direct all project roles, responsibilities and overall decision making

Delivering project management, policy and process across all activity ensuring conformance to bank wide governance

Maintaining all metrics, KPIs and OKRs reporting in union with all delivery functions, providing additional analytics and insights where required

Holding and monitoring a portfolio wide risk register with options to mitigate, remove or transfer with regular reviews across the community

Acting as the central project finance repository owner to ensure correct usage, budgeting and reporting in union with all bank-wide finance reporting and budget drawdown procedures

Adopting and adapting the tooling to support all PMO functions, seeking improvement and efficiency where options reside and educating all delivery colleagues on correct usage

What you\xe2\x80\x99ll bring:

Broad experiencewithin an IT project management across an Infrastructure and Operations domain

Experience in facilitating the team with accountability for how the team operates under the relevant governance framework

Good knowledge and experience of financial management across budget utilisation, project cost estimation and financial analysis

Effective communication within the team to express the required outcomes while also liaising with the CIO domain community and senior management

Expierence in planning and assessment of complex technology solutions, focused on the underlying infrastructure and services

Good appreciation of overall strategic direction and customer needs, applying the most appropriate practices and procedures to maximise the customer experience and outcome.

It would also be nice for you to have:

Degree gained in suitable field, such as technology engineering, business, finance, related disciplines (or equivalent)

Experience of working in a tier one banking environment or equivalent financial services organisation

Hands on exposure and experience of Infrastructure build processes and automation

What else you need to know:

We want our people to thrive at work and home, and we recognise that many people benefit from flexible arrangements. To enable us to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop we understand the importance of having the right balance of spending time together in an office while maintaining flexibility.

By working this way, we can continue to create moments that matter for everyone. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and we\xe2\x80\x99re happy to discuss specific requirements throughout the recruitment process.

This role is based in Milton Keynes and our current expectation is at least 2 days in an office every week.

Application process

If your application is successful a member of our recruitment team will be in touch. We will arrange a short call with you to learn more about you and what you are looking for from your next career move, as well as answer any questions you have about working in the Santander tech team. If both sides agree we will send your CV to the hiring manager to review. For this position, the interview process will be:

First Stage \xe2\x80\x93 Technical & Competency Interview \xe2\x80\x93 this will a one-hour virtual interview with two members of the team.

Second Stage \xe2\x80\x93 A one-hour formal interview where we will ask both technical and competency-based questions. This will ideally be completed face to face depending on your situation.

If there\xe2\x80\x99s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, please let us know.

Inclusion

At Santander we\xe2\x80\x99re creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair.

How we\xe2\x80\x99ll reward you.

As well as a competitive salary, you\xe2\x80\x99ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.

Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus

We put 8% of salary into your pension, even if you don\xe2\x80\x99t contribute yourself. We\xe2\x80\x99ll pay in up to 12.5% of salary, if you contribute as well, and you can take some of our contribution in cash if you prefer

30 days\xe2\x80\x99 holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 31 days after five year\xe2\x80\x99s service, with the option to purchase up to five contractual days per year

\xc2\xa36,000 car allowance per year

Company funded individual private medical insurance

Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates such as private medical insurance for your family, dental insurance, healthcare cash plan and health assessments

Benefits supporting you and your family, such as death-in-service benefit, income protection, and voluntary life assurance and critical illness cover

Share in Santander\xe2\x80\x99s success by investing in our share plans

What to do next:

If this sounds like a role you\xe2\x80\x99re interested in, then please apply.

If there\xe2\x80\x99s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, get in touch. Whether it\xe2\x80\x99s a copy of our application form in another format or additional assistance, we\xe2\x80\x99re available through telephone, email, or face to face. You can contact us at resourcing@santander.co.uk or call 0870 414 9080.

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