Overview

We currently have opportunities for Programme Directors to join the RLAM Enterprise Projects team on a permanent basis in London. The Programme Director at RLAM is responsible for overseeing and managing strategic initiatives, ensuring that multiple projects and workstreams align with the company's investment goals and business strategy. This leadership role involves coordinating resources, managing risks, and ensuring the successful delivery of programmes that build investment propositions, enhance RLAM's operating model, or improve the client experience.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Alignment and Programme Shaping: Align programmes with the firm\'s investment objectives, regulatory requirements, and long-term business strategy.
• Define a transformational programme of work designed to support the execution of the strategy and assess impacts on the operating model (People, Process and Technology and Third Parties), identifying potential synergies or conflicts early.
• Programme Delivery: Oversee the execution of multiple interrelated projects to ensure they are completed on time, within scope, and within budget.
• Budget and Portfolio Management: Influence budget elements during the production of the RLAM Business Plan, creating a multi-year portfolio view of business and technology change items to enable strategic goals.
• Governance and Compliance: Ensure adherence to the RLAM Change methodology framework and all relevant RLG policies; track programme progress through KPIs, reporting, and continuous evaluation to achieve optimal outcomes.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with senior executives, Programme managers, risk teams, and external partners to drive programme success; influence and negotiate with stakeholders and sponsors to secure ownership and input.
• Risks / Issues / Decisions: Ensure effective communication of risks, issues, and decisions.
• People Leadership and Culture: Develop staff for current and long-term needs, balance permanent and contract resources, manage direct reports, and align with RLG policies and procedures; contribute to HR initiatives as required.
• Values: Act at all times in accordance with SORL values.
• Desirable Experience: Demonstrable experience leading a transformational programme circa £7m+ in value; proven accountability for influencing and managing budgets; advanced stakeholder management at all levels including board level; track record of establishing and delivering programmes aligned to strategic objectives; successful implementation of strategic change; expert knowledge of wider industry change best practices; understanding of asset management industry trends.

About RLAM and Benefits

Royal London Asset Management (RLAM), part of the Royal London Group, is one of the UK\'s leading fund management companies working with a wide range of clients across the globe to achieve their investment goals. We are committed to responsible investment and act as stewards of our clients\' capital, exercising their rights and influencing positive change.

Our People Promise is to work somewhere that is inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling, underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values: Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.

We are proud to reward employees with benefits such as 28 days of annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer-matching pension scheme, and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here — Our Benefits.