Project Manager - SAP

at  Nationwide

SAP Platform team acts as a central team servicing all CIOs within MTD providing product architecture roadmap, reliability, best practice adoption and resilience. As a Project Manager, you will be at the heart of our strategic programmes and will be responsible for having control on the dates, technical risks, delivery framework alignment across all the projects that are delivered within the platform.
This role is within the MTD function, part of the wider COO organisation, which is responsible for delivering IT solutions which have our customers and colleagues at heart. Reporting into our SAP Platform Lead and will oversee project management and governance, supporting the delivery of our strategic programmes, particularly in the SAP technology set.
At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible. More rewarding relationships are supported through our hybrid approach, bringing colleagues together across our UK wide estate, whilst also supporting generous access to home working. We value our time in the office to solve problems, to learn, and to feel connected.
For this job you’ll spend at least two days per week, or if part time you’ll spend 40% of your working time, based at our Swindon, Northampton or London office. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works. You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here.
If we receive a high volume of relevant applications, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so please apply as soon as you can.

ABOUT YOU

• Strong experience of working within a complex change management environment
• Good experience in change delivery for the level of role required (including project management, release management, inception, delivery, demand planning and PMO) within small to medium scale complex change environments
• Good understanding of change and run lifecycles gained through tangible experience
• Comprehensive knowledge of change and run methodologies recognisable at Industry (i.e. waterfall, agile, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, IT Service Management)
• Good business / regulation knowledge as required in order to deliver complex change initiatives on behalf of regulated parts of the business
• Good stakeholder management experience
• Good negotiating, influencing, motivational and leadership skills
• Good analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Ability to communicate effectively and influence at all levels
• Planning, reporting and managing delivery
• Experience or basic understanding of SAP landscape

Our Customer First behaviours are all about putting customers and members at the heart of how we work together. You can strengthen your application by showing the behaviours that resonate with you, and how you might have already demonstrated these.

• Say it straight - This is about being honest and direct with good intent and saying what needs to be said in the room. It’s also about being clear, precise, and using language that we and, importantly, our customers and members can understand.
• Push for better - This is about aiming high and constantly looking for better in how we work together and serve our customers and members.
• Get it done - This is about prioritising what will have the greatest impact, being decisive and taking accountability for delivering on the end-to-end outcome.

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• Responsible for the day-to-day delivery of various initiatives through the change lifecycle - identifying and implementing appropriate methodologies, help create a collaborative team and demonstrating an agile mindset where appropriate, to enable efficient change delivery and supports the team in self-sustainability
• Create project plan using relevant tools (excel, Microsoft project, etc.) and track the plan to delivery working alongside internal and external teams.
• Responsible for the overall status reporting to relevant stakeholders on a weekly basis showcasing the in-flight work across all areas within SAP platform.
• As a project lead, you would be accountable to ensure Business, Regulation, Technology Service/Run process & control requirements are met in accordance with policy & control standards, ensuring the project and team adhere to the value delivery framework
• Guide our colleagues within the teams we support and the wider organisation on our connection to the Society priorities via the Golden Thread
• Work with key stakeholders on the development and execution of performance optimisation, cost and sourcing strategies, agreeing and contributing to cost out initiatives and budget and financial oversight