Programme Manager

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A senior role responsible for the management of large scale multi-disciplinary programmes or complex projects that often cross divisional boundaries, ensuring synergy with corporate strategy and enabling business areas to achieve strategic objectives.

This role will establish the full scale and scope of the programme and the impact that delivery will have on shareholder value. It will also determine the need for, and procurement of services, external support, ensuring that all resourcing requirementsare met.

**The difference you'll make.**
- Building and managing a team across the work streams to realise their full potential and ensure successful delivery of programme objectives. This may include direct and indirect project team members.
- Building and maintaining effective internal and external partnerships with stakeholders at all levels, to enhance 2-way communications and support the development of projects.
- Using project management experience and knowledge to drive the focus on effective and timely delivery of projects across the business areas within the workstreams, with specific challenge and quality assurance of plans, critical path management, statusreporting resourcing, and budget and dependency management.
- Providing clear understanding to stakeholders / project sponsors on the impacts of change, anticipating any risks and issues and how they can be mitigated.
- Defining and developing Business Case specifications and plans to support prioritised and often sensitive or complex projects, aligning to strategic objectives and gaining required approvals and sign off.
- Presenting findings and recommendations on innovative and often radical changes that have an impact on profitability and achievement of strategic objectives.

**What you'll bring.**
- Proven track record in PMO/project management role with strong understanding of project management methodologies and best practices, including business case development, project planning, stakeholder mapping and communication plans.
- Proven track record of delivery of Data programmes (specifically Data Management, Data Privacy & ILM and Data Cloud Migration) and prior experience in control framework design and governance.

**It would also be nice for you to have.**
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills - persuades and influences others, using a range of approaches, to achieve deliverables.
- Strong understanding of Data Engineering and proven track record of delivering strategic Data Engineering programmes.
- Detailed knowledge of a Data & Analytics function within a financial services company.
- Ability to define, shape and develop project requirements and associated solutions with project stakeholders, drawing on appropriate specialist expertise to create robust solutions.

**What else you need to know.**

We will be conducting all interviews via telephone or video-conference where possible.

This role is currently office based/Home based until corona virus restrictions are lifted.

This is a permanent role based in Milton Keynes.

**How we'll reward you.**

As well as a competitive salary, you'll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.
- Competitive starting salary plus a £500 annual cash allowance to spend on our great range of benefits.
- Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus
- Pension with generous contributions of up to 12.5% from Santander, depending on your own contribution and length of employment with us
- 30 days' holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 31 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year
- £6,000 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's success by investing in our share plans

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**A bit more about Santander**

At Santander we're driven by our purpose - to help people and businesses prosper. This means we help customers to create change for themselves and those around them, and we champion businesses to grow sustainably. We do this by always living our values ofSimple, Personal and Fair.

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