Verita HR Polska is a Human Resources service provider operating under number 5694.
We are working as a recruitment provider searching on our Client’s behalf for a person in the following role:
• Owning delivery execution within the programme as well as having holistic oversight of the product development roadmap and the adoption plans.
• Accountable for programme delivery strategy and approach across a series of capabilities / projects or component activities, building stakeholder buy-in around plans, commitments and changes.
• Accountable for programme reporting, governance and benefits realisation / OKR management to all relevant stakeholders / committees in accordance with the organisation’s Change Framework.
• Leading Project Managers / Scrum Masters / PMOs on a high-profile global delivery to ensure commitments are met across budget / benefits / schedule / scope.
• Proactively partnering with Product and SMEs in the annual planning and forecasting process.
• Accountable for the intake of all new work and the evaluation of new change requirements, facilitating integrated triage to identify requirements, scope and budget.
• Drive stakeholder discussions related to delivery strategy, scope, capabilities and budget.
• Owning and managing resource plans with Project Managers / Scrum Masters, producing/overseeing indicative pricing and detailed budgets that match a description of deliverables and actual work effort.
• Serving as an escalation point to manage risks, issues and dependencies. Provide solutions-oriented consultation to integrated team leads, proactively controlling scope and the change control process, and collaborating with stakeholders to strategically identify and implement solutions.
• Manage negotiations and oversee the management and service agreement monitoring of third-party contracts.
• Using approved change management tools, e.g. JIRA and Confluence, to establish delivery dashboards and reports to ensure financial health, live deliverables and performance against KPIs / OKRs.
• Partnering with other global Programme Managers and the Programme Office to implement the approved vision for delivery management and contribute to the future evolution of the discipline.
• Establish effective controls, procedures and quality assurance processes to promote consistency of outputs across all deliverables in line with the organisation’s Change Framework and Risk and Controls framework.
• Managing and mentoring Project Management / Scrum team members, including resolving escalations, setting and managing performance goals, coaching individual career growth paths and balancing workloads.
• Programme leadership with strong change discipline: Own governance, scope/benefits, RAID/dependencies, stage gates, and audit-ready documentation; drive decisions and delivery pace across multiple workstreams and global delivery teams.
• Proven experience in platform and data migration programmes (incl. SAS): Lead option analysis, target-state design and roadmap; deliver large-scale/big data migrations including environment readiness, testing and parallel runs, cutover and back-out planning.
• Stakeholder & adoption leadership: Translate between business, engineering, operations, risk/security and vendors; manage expectations, training and operational handover to ensure changes land and stick.
• Exceptional understanding of SAS migration and dependencies: Manage remediation planning, data lineage and reconciliation, and post-migration assurance to ensure control and integrity.
• Strong financial services domain knowledge: Experience delivering change within regulated financial institutions, working effectively with risk, security, operations and audit stakeholders.
• Extensive programme management / delivery leadership (8+ years): Track record managing large, complex, global change deliveries across multiple workstreams, delivering to agreed scope, timeline, budget and benefits.
• Ability to develop change capability: Coach and train teams to uplift delivery standards, discipline and ways of working.
• Ability to lead and motivate high-performing global teams: Effective leadership across multiple locations and cultures within a matrix organisation.
• Strategic and solution-oriented thinker: Comfortable managing complexity, balancing significant change and multiple competing priorities with strong attention to detail.
• Agile delivery experience: Experience applying Agile methodologies in programme and product development; Agile certification(s) (e.g. SAFe) advantageous.
• Impeccable communication skills: Strong written, verbal and presentation skills with proven ability to engage stakeholders from ExCo/Managing Director level to analysts.
• Proficient in spoken and written English.
• Prestigious position at one of the world’s largest banks.
• Stable, long-term projects.
• Competitive salary with a B2B contract.
• Hybrid work (8 days per month from the office in Cracow).
• Private healthcare and multisport card.
• Personal growth and development opportunities with the possibility to rotate between projects.
klaudia.swiatlon@veritahr.com
