IT Business Manager – COO – Scorecard recruitment

Tier 1 Investment Bank requires experienced VP level Business Manager / COO to join a Global Business Management Centre Of excellent function.

Essential Skills: Proven track record of working within a global business management function in an Investment Bank; experience facing off to senior stakeholders; ability to influence large peer groups (ideally experienced dealing with large and complex IT Development functions); experience with the financial management of large IT departments; experience of working as a consultant (Big 5 experience Preferred); experience of working with off shore IT development functions.

The role will within a small team developing and implementing cost and process controls over the bank's contractor workforce. Working with a range of internal global sourcing functions, the successful candidate will go into the IT business within the EMEA region and work with a range of Development and other IT functions to help reduce contractor / consultant spend. The role will sit within a global team of 5 people with a view to expanding this function based on its success.

Day to day responsibilities include: Oversee a range of contingent workforce processes; provide regional inputs to global standards and policies, processes and IT systems related to contingent workforce issues; develop performance metrics and reporting within the global team and then implement within the EMEA region; act as a regional relationship manager for other divisions and regional IT management, line management and line business management concerning overall population of contingent workforce; take responsibility for service quality reporting process for the EMEA contingent workforce.

This role requires a dynamic, persuasive and authorities in nature, who may come from a Senior PMO, Business Management, or COO type background but must have a background in Financial Services. This role has major exposure across the bank to a very senior level, and as such requires a strong Senior VP level candidate to be successful in the role. The program is being sponsored at Board Level so candidates who are comfortable dealing with senior stakeholders within global banking organisations is a must.

Please call Joe Martin on 020 7220 9843 for more details.