Business Manager - Wholesale (Kuwaiti National Only)

Business Manager - Wholesale ( Kuwaiti Nationals Only ) *
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The Business Manager is a key component of the new Enterprise COO construct.
The key objective of Wholesale Strategic change is to improve the MENAT
Wholesale Change Landscape by acting as trusted advisors to CMB and GB
businesses, leading and delivering sustainable change and ensuring
commercialisation is achieved through our key programmes.
In this role, you will:
* Be an energised, ambitious and high performing change agent who will lead the scoping and delivery of change programmes across the region.
* Be responsible for the end to end delivery of a single project (or work stream of a larger project or programme), proactively balancing scope, schedule, budget, risks, outcomes and benefits. Projects can be standalone or form part of a program.
* Develop the plan within constraints, and in line with HSBC project management methodology, considering the delivery approach, key milestones and dependencies within the plan, requirements and scope, effort and resources, budgets and quality.
* Proactively monitor project execution to effectively identify risks/issues/dependencies as they arise throughout the project lifecycle.
* Take ownership of critical issues and ensure resolution within agreed timescales and implement mitigating plans against identified risks and issues.
* Collaborate and build positive stakeholder and business partner relationships providing regular updates and proactively resolve high priority issues affecting the project.
* Mobilize the project team and allocate tasks and roles efficiently and effectively.
* Promote and take accountability for project quality; identify opportunities to improve delivery and oversee the governance process to reduce risk and ensure effective and timely decisions are taken.
* Ensure key learnings are captured from each Project/ Programme to improve methodologies and share best practice.
* Be accountable for the timely and high quality delivery of programmes, adhering to HSBC core frameworks.
Requirements
To be successful in the role, you should meet the following requirements:*
* Experience on the delivery of complex and business critical change in accordance with existing industry best practices and methodologies.
* Strong organisational and planning skills with knowledge on when and how to re-prioritise, or escalate as required
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with a proven ability to communicate effectively and confidently at all levels
* Outstanding relationship management and influencing skills, with experience of successfully working across multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural diverse work environments
* Knowledge and experience of being flexible and adaptable in an environment of constantly changing priorities, challenging bureaucracy, whilst staying true to the values and strategy of the Group
* Proven problem solving skills with ability to consider alternative and innovative solutions
* Display a high level of drive and motivation to ensure successful delivery of complex business change initiatives
* A broad, enterprise-wide view of the business and an appreciation for strategy, capabilities, enabling technologies, and governance
* Knowledge about emerging technology and innovation and how this can be applied to benefit Wholesale
* Knowledge of the changing regulatory environment especially in the financial services sector