Purpose of the role
Responsible for broader, strategic objectives across multiple projects, with a long‑term, cross‑functional focus.
Accountabilities
- Scope Management: Oversees a collection of related projects that together aim to achieve broader strategic business objectives.
- Strategic Focus: Focuses on strategic, high‑level outcomes and ensures the overall success of the program with alignment to the organization’s business strategy.
- Time Horizon: Works over a longer time horizon; programs span months or years and involve multiple phases and projects.
- Stakeholder Management: Manages a wide range of stakeholders across various projects, including executives, project managers and external clients, ensuring communication and alignment within the program.
- Risk and Issue Management: Manages risks and issues at a higher level, focusing on cross‑project dependencies and potential impacts on the broader program or business strategy.
- Resource Management: Allocates resources across multiple projects, balancing priorities and ensuring efficient usage.
- Financial Management: Manages the overall program budget, tracking the financial health of multiple projects and ensuring value delivery.
- Metrics: Measures success based on cumulative benefits delivered by all projects within the program, focusing on business outcomes, value creation and alignment with strategic goals.
- Change Management: Deals with change at a macro level, ensuring changes across projects are managed cohesively and do not negatively impact the overall program.
Vice President Expectations
Contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies and processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate breaches of policies or procedures. If managing a team, define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department’s future needs, counsel employees on performance, and contribute to employee pay decisions. Influence operations of a department in alignment with strategic and tactical priorities while balancing short and long‑term goals and ensuring compliance with corporate requirements.
Leadership Behaviours (for people leaders)
- L – Listen and be authentic
- E – Energise and inspire
- A – Align across the enterprise
- D – Develop others
Individual Contributor Expectations
A subject matter expert within own discipline, guiding technical direction and leading collaborative, multi‑year assignments. Provide guidance, training and coaching to less experienced specialists, and influence long‑term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions. Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management, on functional and cross‑functional impact and alignment. Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, supporting the control and governance agenda. Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls.
Skills and Experience
- Act as communication lead for large‑scale transformation programmes.
- Manage stakeholders, set expectations and coordinate dependencies.
- Plan programmes and coordinate effective dependencies.
- Familiarity with scaled Agile ways of working and tools such as Jira.
- Knowledge of data and records management.
- Experience using AI to enhance and optimise business processes.
- Assessment on key critical skills: risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, and job‑specific technical skills.
Location
This role is based in Glasgow.
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