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HSBC Commercial Banking serves millions of businesses ranging from small, to large corporates, providing commercial customers with a full range of banking services including Global Trade and Receivables Finance, RMB solutions, multi-currency business accounts, payments and cash management, and wealth management and insurance, , as well as a comprehensive range of financing solutions. With dedicated Relationship Managers and Product Specialists providing local support and advice in over 60 countries and territories, HSBC helps connect customers to opportunities.

We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as a Delivery Lead.

The Opportunity

This role sits within Wholesale Credit and Lending which is the unit within Banking that works across Product, Regional, Country and Sector teams on all lending related activities to generate optimal returns and to manage and minimise risk.

The Delivery Lead is required to take decisions and lead change initiatives and on occasions manage stakeholder and senior management relationships. Project governance must be established, including clear sponsorship, tollgates and steering committee. The jobholder will not be subject to close supervision, and will be expected to exercise independent initiative and judgement in proactively overcoming obstacles to success, dealing with uncertainty and changing circumstances, such as interdependencies, opportunities or risks. He/she will be expected to adopt an agile and flexible approach to work and an outstanding level of professionalism and conduct.

Purpose

The jobholder is responsible for influencing the project approach, building stakeholder buy-in around the project plan, commitment and changes; driving project delivery proactively, balancing planning, scope, schedule, budget, communications and risks; managing and planning resources, responsibilities and schedules; establishing effective project controls and procedures and quality assurance processes; managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders; reporting progress, issues, dependencies and risks to project or programme leadership and committees as appropriate and making recommendations to influence decision making in order to maintain progress towards delivery and benefits realization; providing management to maintain a focus on how the project aligns to wider programme objectives, where appropriate, and to the change portfolio across HSBC.

Responsibilities

Plans effectively around delivery constraints and optimises the plan to maximise benefits and minimise risk. Develops the plan within constraints, considering the delivery approach, key milestones and dependencies within the plan, requirements and scope, effort and resources, budgets and qualityEnsures the baseline scope, requirements, benefits, schedule and budget are managed as outlined in Business Transformation FrameworksProactively monitors project execution to effectively identify risks/issues/dependencies as they arise throughout the project lifecycle. Takes ownership of critical issues and ensures resolution within agreed timescales and implements mitigating plans against identified risks and issues. Escalates when needed to the Programme Manager Collaborates and builds positive stakeholder and business partner relationships providing regular updates to resolve high priority issues affecting the project Obtains buy-in from the project sponsor, Steering Committee and other business partner stakeholders for all key project plans, commitments, and changes including requirements, quality assurance plans, budget, schedule, and scope changes Develops the plan in line with HSBC Project Management Framework and communicates the plan to stakeholders Develops and/or reviews estimates and estimating assumptions for the project’s schedule, effort, and cost using established HSBC Transformation estimating models, best practices, and past experience Provides timely reports on project status, risks and issues, evaluating project performance based on management information Manages and reports on the project budget, acting on any variance; manages and reports project risks, issues and dependencies Maintains project change control, ensuring any changes to baseline are managed through change request and all impacts are considered