Hybrid Program Director – Strategic Transformation

at Waystone

• Job title: Program Director – Strategic Transformation
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: PMP
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Cashel, Ireland

About the role

• Program Director overseeing strategic transformation initiatives at Waystone, ensuring project deliverables and managing stakeholder relationships effectively.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for holding the business to account for delivery of defined agreed project scope, objectives, budget, project actions and synergy delivery across the Program.
• Establishes, obtains approval for, executes, and continually improves a standardised Program Playbook ensuring a defined, structured approach to project delivery across the Program.
• Leads initial discovery sessions to produce a defined, cross functionally agreed Program Playbook per project.
• Collaborates with Manager - Performance & Analysis to determine, measure, monitor, report on and oversee delivery of individual and consolidated budgets (including financial KPIs (savings, costs) and non-financial KPIs) across the Program.
• Develop robust criteria and budget to facilitate Proof of Concept analysis for project for approval.
• Creates and nurtures professional relationships in IT to ensure delivery across the Program of: IT infrastructure requirements are in place in a timely manner, aligned to the Playbook.
• Business Applications are in place in a timely manner, aligned to the Playbook.
• Identify and recommend re-alignment of projects within Program, to assure timely delivery of stated benefits are met where necessary.
• Establish robust Project Governance Model to facilitate collaboration with project each workstream owners to drive accountability for agreed budgets, hold workstream leads responsible for delivering against budget across the Program.
• Agree ownership, track, monitor and evidence budget delivery including synergies (savings) and dis-synergies (cost) across the Program.
• Ensure project managers and stakeholders clearly define and agree the scope and objectives of each Program project.
• Regularly assess and report on resource performance against project goals and budget.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or Masters in a relevant field e.g. Project Management, Business Administration, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• Project management professional qualification e.g., PRINCE2 or IPMA certification.
• Minimum of 15 years’ relevant experience in Project Management, Business Administration, Information Technology, or a related discipline in the financial sector with proven path of advancement.
• Funds Industry experience preferred
• Proven track record of project delivery, exemplary budget management and lateral thinking
• Pre/post merger integration programs, global system implementations, target operating model execution experience preferred.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Proficiency in English is required. Additional languages, an advantage.

Benefits

• Professional development opportunities
• Inclusive workplace environment