Hybrid Senior Manager, Transformation Management Office

at RBC

• Job title: Senior Manager, Transformation Management Office
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Tableau
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior Manager overseeing transformation initiatives to align programs with Wealth Management Europe's strategic goals. Supporting business change and driving program execution within the team in London.

Responsibilities

• Oversee WME intake, triage, funding, and (re)prioritization processes.
• Facilitate alignment of OKRs and program investments to strategic priorities.
• Maintain a single source of truth and report on portfolio health, spend, risks, interdependencies, and benefits/outcomes in coordination with key partners.
• Facilitate strategic decision-making for segment leadership.
• Track the status of large program roadmaps and their initiatives articulated with WME’s strategic priorities and provide oversight.
• Communicate value realization to senior stakeholders.
• Provide advisory support to enable the business and other stakeholders to perform core functions, including program planning and structuring, business casing and funding, program governance and delivery model (including 3-in-a-box role of Business, T&O and Digital), issue and risk management, benefit realization and tracking, and use of TMO tools.
• Ensure early adoption of strategic ways of working, governance model and defined accountabilities for business teams.
• Enable WME and delivery teams with best practices, tools, and coaching for self-managed execution.
• Establish and maintain guidelines, tools, and templates on mandatory processes (e.g., intake, prioritisation, funding, execution).
• Provide oversight to ensure adoption of tools and templates and adherence to standards.
• Continuous improvement through upskilling and development of WME TMO and BC&T resources.
• Seek opportunities to automate and digitise reporting, governance, and performance tracking processes.
• Champion the use of advanced analytics, dashboards, and other insights to improve forecasting, decision-making, and portfolio optimisation.
• Partner with senior leaders to advise on investment prioritisation, programme execution challenges, and delivery trade-offs.
• Represent WME TMO in enterprise-level forums, ensuring alignment to group-level governance and reporting expectations.
• Work closely with WM TMO to ensure transparency on status of WME programs and understanding of LoB and Enterprise level changes to governance frameworks.
• Lead and coach direct reports, setting clear objectives, fostering professional growth, and building a succession pipeline.
• Establish clear accountabilities within the TMO, ensuring role clarity, effective delegation, and driving execution consistency.
• Align TMO team activities to WME priorities and enterprise-level portfolio standards.

Requirements

• Proven success in project, program, and/or portfolio management in a large financial institution or corporation including financial planning, leading initiatives from planning into execution.
• Expert knowledge with productivity tools (e.g. Planview, Atlassian: Confluence & JIRA, Excel, PowerPoint, Tableau, Power BI, data visualization) and techniques for planning, monitoring and controlling projects, programs and portfolios.
• Experience with business cases, investments, benefits/value, OKR tracking, and the ability to translate data into insights that supports problem analysis and identification of recommendations.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to communicate a wide variety of complex information in both oral and written format at all levels of an organisation.
• Demonstrated collaboration skills to obtain results through partnerships, impact and influence, being comfortable to deal with uncertainty and maintaining an open-flexible mindset.
• Excellent prioritisation and coordination skills, combined with the ability to work to multiple deadlines under pressure.
• Experience in Agile Coaching and/or Change Management, providing advice & guidance for execution roles (Nice-to-have).
• Experience of business analysis on large transformational initiatives (Nice-to-have).

Benefits

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses, flexible benefits and competitive compensation
• Health insurance
• Professional development opportunities
• Opportunities to work with the best in the field