Accountable for defining and leading the programme\/project, cutting across multiple channels, products, systems and departments, to time, budget, and scope from initiation through to completion;
Supervises a team of project management professionals and ensures compliance to Standards, policies and processes ;
Runs a high performing, collaborative, delivery team, who may be directly managed or matrix managed;
Drives the delivery of the programme\/project through active management ensuring milestones are met to time, cost and quality;
Defines release readiness requirements against business outcome needs and validates readiness before release into production;
Ensures overall integrity of the project and compliance to Standards;
Monitors performance across programmes in the portfolio to enable tracking of the strategy execution;
Uses best practice knowledge to generate analytics and maintain a common set of practices, principles and templates for managing, anticipating and exceeding the project needs;
Possesses understanding of frameworks (eg Waterfall\/Agile) and methodologies (eg Prince2);
Demonstrates strong communication skills, coordinates project stakeholders and may also act as lead representative in key governance and decision meetings ;
Maintains strong relations and works closely with stakeholders across the company and external partners in order to ensure alignment with the broader commercial objectives of the business ;