Head of Programme Management
Job Description
<p>RAKBANK, also known as the National Bank of Ras Al-Khaimah, is a Public Joint Stock Company based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It was founded in 1976 and is one of the oldest banks in the UAE. The Bank operates within retail and corporate banking, offering a range of services including personal and business banking, credit cards, loans, investment services, and wealth management.</p><p><br></p><p>In the recent years, the Bank has achieved significant milestones which includes being named as one of the world’s best banks by Forbes ME (2022) and was awarded UAE’s SME Bank of the year by the Asian Banking and Finance Awards. The Bank has been successful in achieving the highest profitability and lowest cost of risk since 2015. It has also seen significant growth in its acquiring business, card spending, and business loans.</p><p><br></p><p>Being on a transformational journey, in partnership with Honeywell, RAKBANK has also taken steps towards sustainability by reducing its overall energy consumption.</p><p><br></p><p>We are a diverse team comprising of over 3,000 employees from across 58 countries. We make conscious efforts to build talented and diversified teams and encourage people to develop their full potential. We are committed to providing a working environment that promotes work-life balance, career development, recognition and security for the future.</p><p><br></p><p>In line with our strategy, a major part of our transformation journey is to future proof our bank and establish ourselves as a ‘Digital bank with human touch’, for our customers.</p><p><br></p><p>So join us in co-creating the future of RAKBANK!</p><p><br></p><p><em>What You Will Be Doing </em></p><ul><li>Responsible for the successful delivery of the entire proposed change, co-ordination of the projects and management of their inter-dependencies</li><li>Responsible for enforcing the programme’s governance arrangements</li><li>Ensuring effective quality assurance and the overall integrity of the programme</li><li>Governing the programme’s budget, monitoring expenditure and costs against delivered and realized benefits as the programme progresses</li></ul><p><br></p><p><em>What You Should Have</em></p><ul><li>Experience in ensuring the delivery of new products or services from projects is within scope, on time and within budget, in accordance with the programme plan and programme governance arrangements</li><li>Experience in ensuring there is allocation of common resources and skills within the programme’s individual projects</li><li>Capability to manage third party contributions to the programme</li><li>Ability to formulate, organize and monitor inter-connected projects and coordinate cross-project activities</li><li>Ability to resolve higher-scope issues and assess programme performance with an aim to maximize ROI</li></ul><p><br></p><p><em>What We Are Looking For</em></p><ul><li>Minimum 10 to 12 years’ of proven experience as Programme Manager preferably in the Banking field</li><li>Strong expertise in Waterfall, Agile, Scrum modelling.</li><li>Strong leadership and organization skills</li><li>Must be detail-oriented and capable of delivering a high level of accuracy</li><li>Must have the ability to run stakeholder meetings</li></ul><p><br></p><p><em>What’s In It For You</em></p><ul><li>Pay for performance culture (Competitive and performance-linked compensation)</li><li>Provision of medical care plan for your family and you</li><li>Comprehensive Life insurance plan</li><li>Diverse workforce and inclusive culture</li><li>Career development and growth opportunities by design</li><li>Work with the best minds in the field</li><li>Get opportunities to bring your whole-self to the organization and perform to your best.</li></ul>
