Programme Director

Essential Criteria:

• Established track record of shaping and leading complex, high-value, multi-year programmes.
• Strong commercial, procurement and transformation experience at Programme Director level.
• Industry-leading expert in the delivery of projects and programmes with experience working alongside executives to create the case for change at all levels of the organisation.
• Ability to take a strategic perspective and to plan strategically in an environment of uncertainty, complexity and with multiple dependencies and stakeholders.
• An established understanding and experience in a range of project and programme delivery standards and methodologies.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, collaboration and technical skills.
• Significant experience leading and managing teams in ambiguity in a highly matrixed environment.
• Evidence of extensive experience in managing senior stakeholders and managing a complex stakeholder landscape.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across organisational boundaries, build relationships, and import and export talent and ideas to achieve a broader organisational goal.
• Experience in the development of operating model design and technology solutions in meeting sustainable targets.
• Ability to drive organisational results in a complex and matrixed business environment.
• The ability to be agile with a broad stakeholder group, from scientists to large operations teams, as well as multiple external stakeholders.
• Experience in equivalent Programme Director roles.
• Significant subject matter experience in transformation, technology, finance, procurement and commercial.
• Project, Programme and Portfolio Management qualifications.

Skills:

Planning and Organising:

• Able to juggle priorities and can concentrate on several areas of work at one time.
• Can think ahead to establish an efficient and appropriate course of action for self and others.
• Prioritises and plans projects/programmes, taking into account the degree of uncertainty, resource availability and inter-project dependencies to ensure delivery within the time, cost and quality constraints.

Leadership:

• Demonstrates the ability to make things happen and is focused on the project/programme outcomes and delivery.
• Builds a climate of trust with project or programme teams and all other stakeholders.
• Ensures inter-project issues, conflicts and dependencies are fully identified and appropriately resolved, escalating where required.

Stakeholder Management:

• Experience of developing successful working relationships with a wide range of individuals and organisations, including contact at a senior/executive level.
• Recognises the importance of sharing and disseminating information and contacts.
• Takes care and time to maintain and develop existing relationships.
• Values individual differences.
• Has the ability to establish rapport quickly and effectively with new clients/people.

Influencing and Negotiating:

• Proven negotiation skills.
• Ability to present sound and well-reasoned arguments to convince others.
• Demonstrates the ability to draw from a range of influencing strategies to persuade people to achieve agreement or behavioural change.
• Listens to other points of view to gain understanding.

Strategic Thinking:

• Demonstrates a good understanding of the strategic vision of the Bank and can correlate why the project/programme is required with the Bank's strategic direction.
• Keeps up-to-date with developments in the outside world and considers challenges in the wider context.