Senior Program Delivery Manager, Nordics

Nordea is a leading Nordic universal bank. We are helping our customers realise their dreams and aspirations – and we have done that for 200 years. We want to make a real difference for our customers and the communities where we operate – by being a strong and personal financial partner.

Job ID: 14756 
About this opportunity
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What you will be doing:
* Accountable for driving day to day delivery activities across our business, technical and testing teams across the 3 distinct areas of Customer, Migration and ADS
* Working within Nordea methodology across the full delivery lifecycle from analysis, design, build, test and deploy to ensure outcomes are met – including readiness for scheduled release dates
* Driving the look ahead work and ensuring up front activities are enabled to progress 3 releases in parallel  
* Facilitation of weekly operational meetings – driving discussion and decisions
* Engagement with key stakeholders inside and outside of CBP and driving dependencies, risks and issues with these teams
* Preparation of fortnightly status reporting of the block for the CBP leadership team
* Key deliverables include delivery roadmap, work breakdown structure in JIRA, program risks and other communication material as needed
* Coaching and mentoring the team leads
* Communicate and influence at all levels of the organization and communicate complex topics and recommendations in a clear and understandable way for a wide variety of stakeholders (English).
* Build effective relationships with other team members and stakeholders across the organization
* Adapt and respond to change and work effectively to resolve ambiguity
* Backup for Head of Delivery, where appropriate

What we offer
We have around 50 very talented professionals working in our Migration, Customers and ADS teams. Our team is responsible for example testing, software development, and internal customer support for certain core areas. Team is international as we are located in Poland, Sweden, Denmark, and India.
We are proud of our expertise and strong competences, which are required to run our complex transformation journey. People have opportunity to grow professionally and take on new responsibilities in this highly experienced team. We follow hybrid model of working and have flexible working hours in all of our locations. Nordea offers great benefits which differ in each country.
Who you are
To succeed in this role, we believe that you:
* Have leadership experience and know how to both set direction & challenge the status quo for the greater good of Nordea
* Good intercultural communication skills
* Have 10+ years of related work experience in large-scale transformation programs in the areas of Core Banking or Financial Services industry
* or have 10+ years of experience in delivery leadership roles within IT
* Have 5+ years’ experience with Core Banking software such as Temenos or SAP
* Beneficial: 5+ years of experience with Data Migration

Additional leadership competences, that are beneficial in this role:
* Self-organizing and self-driven
* Strong facilitation skills and decision making
* Conflict resolution
* Strong problem solving skills
* Skillful communicator
* Professional coaching and mentoring skills
* Ability to manage and escalate risks, dependencies and issues
* Foster collaboration between teams and other stakeholders
* Have the ability to drive a large international and distributed team (40+)
* Are proficient in the planning of long term work (>1 year out) across multiple, distinct areas
* Able to work with architects, product managers, product owners, technology and test leads as well as leadership executives

The role is based in Sweden (Stockholm), Denmark (Taastrup, or Copenhagen), or Norway (Oslo). Please indicate your preferred location in your application.
Next steps
Please note that we will start interviews already before job opening closes, submit your application as soon as possible, no later than 28/02/2023 . For more information, you’re welcome to contact hiring manager at Kelly.silvey@nordea.com.  
Please be aware that any applications or CVs coming through email or direct messages will not be accepted or considered.