Project Management Officer

for this role it's mandatory to speak Dutch

Your role

We may be part of a large banking Group, but we’re a small, tight-knit bank with a focused business model and a young team. For our Change Team, we are looking for a PMO Manager with proven experience in delivering changes.You'll play a crucial role in managing and supporting change delivery, with a focus on regulatory and ECB readiness projects. Your key responsibilities will include overseeing governance, reporting, planning, and support services. You'll develop and implement PMO methodologies, tools, and processes, and act as the key liaison with project managers and product owners. Engaging with stakeholders across Lloyds Bank GmbH and Lloyds Banking Group in the UK, you'll ensure alignment with required actions and address risk, regulatory, and financial issues. If you're excited about PMO management in a regulatory and supervisory environment and want to make a difference, apply now!

A day in the life of a PMO Manager

No 2 days are the same in the life of a PMO manager. Let’s take a look on a Monday morning towards the end of the month. After your morning coffee or tea you have a daily with the project team, where you discuss the latest progress on ongoing activities and discuss the activities for the coming week. Afterwards you finish the draft agenda for the next Steering committee and discuss that with the Project Manager. Just before lunchtime you answer a couple of emails from colleagues requesting some information regarding your project.

You grab lunch with other Change team colleagues where you exchange updates regarding new changes, processes and general developments. You make a mental note for anything that might impact your project and share it with the project team later.

After lunch you dive into a governance process where you learn the why and the how of a specific process and then you start working on this governance deliverable. In order to complete the deliverable you need a short catch up with the project manager and engage a project SME on Teams. By 4 o’clock coffee time you have a deliverable ready for review by the Project Manager.

Towards the end of the day you process a couple of invoices and have a first go at the financial reporting.

The team

The Change Team NL consists of +/- 20 change minded colleagues that are passionate about improving our bank. The Platform Support Office (PSO) is part of the Change Team and is tasked with guiding, validating, and enhancing the delivery of changes. We provide standards for ways of working, training, tools, and best practices. Our team facilitates the quarterly business cycle, guides new change requests, offers PMO support, and validates the safe delivery of these initiatives through checkpoints and controls. Additionally, we collaborate with our counterparts in Germany and the UK for portfolio and investment management as well as change framework compliancy and improvements.

You recognize yourself in this profile

Experience and Knowledge

• > 3 years experience in project or project office management, ideally in the banking industry, with profound knowledge of the regulatory environment on national and EU levels
• Very good knowledge of project management standards (Agile and classic) with high paced transformational change environment. Certified qualification an advantage (IPMA, Prince, Scrum, Agile PM, Kanban).
• Proficient in using Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and JIRA/ Confluence

Skills and Capabilities

• Excellent good organisational/planning skills with the ability to coordinate multi-task, dealing with complexity and organise workloads in a structured way, working to tight deadlines.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to produce high quality reports and articulate information clearly, accurately and concisely in meetings and presentations, to colleagues at all levels.
• Striving for continuous improvement of existing processes and practices.
• Eagerness to be part of a team that drives innovation in the financial services industry.
• Strong influencing and negotiation skills to manage senior stakeholders’ needs and expectations.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in Dutch and English, knowledge of German is a plus

Some highlights of our benefits for you

• 13th month salary, either paid monthly or once a year in December
• 30 days PTO (or 240 hours) per year (based on fulltime employment)
• Non-contributory pension scheme
• Flexible working; you can schedule your work hours to meet your personal needs

Apply to our vacancies by sending your CV and motivation letter to [email protected], or use the application form on our website. After receiving your application, we'll review it and share a reply as soon as possible.