Job Title: Supply Chain Management – Program Manager
Business Unit: CIB – ITO
Contract Type: permanent
Location: Sandyford, Dublin
About BNP Paribas
At BNP Paribas, we center our values on what drives the company forward. Our driving forces are Agility, Client Satisfaction, Compliance Culture and Openness.
- Agility: we want to behave more simply to embrace useful innovation and digital transformation.
- Client Satisfaction: we believe that our success lies in being the customers’ and clients’ preferred choice.
- Compliance Culture: we believe in promoting clear rules to foster a strong culture of compliance and ethics
- Openness: we promote open-minded attitudes towards our stakeholders. We aim for everyone in Group to feel included, to have their say and be empowered
- Stability: we build upon our solid, long-term oriented management, our diversified and integrated business model and our international footprint.
- Expertise: we build upon our recognized and expanding knowledge of our teams.
- Responsibility: we build upon our culture of responsibility and integrity to ever better serve the interest of our customers
- Good Place to Work: we foster a stimulating workplace where people are treated fairly and with respect
Role:
Within CIB ITO, the Supply Chain Management teams process the SCM financing needs of our CIB Corporate Clients. The CIB ITO Supply Chain Management teams are located in Dublin for EMEA, in APAC and in AMERICAS. The CIB ITO SCM teams are also engaged in an ambitious worldwide industrialisation program that is globally managed from Dublin in the SCM Operations Industrialisation Team. The SCM Operations Industrialisation Team is therefore looking for its: Supply Chain Management – Industrialisation Program Manager.
Key Responsibilities:
Monitor the SCM Industrialisation program:
- Understand the various axes & key deliverables within the program to effectively animate, monitor and report on its progress, attention points and risks.
- Manage with a global angle the program portfolio, governance & executive level expectations and communications. Ensure program’s goals are delivered as planned.
- Maintain organizational standards of satisfaction, quality, and performance by setting up best practices or project adjustments where needed.
- Facilitate communication with cross-functional teams and foster strong relationships across regions and across Business, IT and Operations teams.
- Demonstrate achievements and progress of the program by providing tangible results/KPIs, monitoring risks to delivery and resolving issues identified.
- Develop and deliver progress reports, proposal and presentations
- Proactively collect, analyze, and propose solutions for attention points and risks identified.
- Facilitate risk mitigation and contribute to removing roadblocks to ensure critical projects are delivered on time, escalate accordingly.
- If need be, arbitrating allocations between different proects of the program.
Lead or contribute to transformation projects (within the industrialisation program or not):
- Project scoping, animation, monitoring and reporting (cost, time, quality, and risks)
- Preparation of project follow up reporting to Local Senior Management or Head Office
- Pain point collection, analysis and propose solutions, formalization of study results.
- Business requirement collection, analysis, contribute to formalization.
- Define or review processes impacted by the project, always with a “Risk” angle (operational, compliance, etc.)
- Coordinate the various teams involved in the project, detect, and analyze the risk and define mitigation actions to complete the project, launch escalation if needed.
- Design and deliver support documentation to facilitate project implementation such as process, guidelines, operational procedures, or user guide, as well as controls in coordination with internal Operational Control teams where relevant.
- Handle the Change Management stream of your projects ensuring the impacted teams adopt the change.
You also contribute to:
- Expertise sharing and knowledge improvement within the team.
- The Supply Chain Knowledge Bank.
- Business case formulation with specific emphasis on operational impacts.
- The implementation of Global Guidelines, Procedures, Compliance Requirements and Control Plans in relation to Supply Chain activity within the Operational hubs.
- The definition of standard processes and maintenance of generic procedures and control plans.
- The proactive follow-up of audit recommendations and their implementation.
- OPC (LoD1), Compliance & Risk ORM (LoD2) and IG (LoD3) related projects and information requests.
- Strategic planning initiatives, assisting your manager to define objectives, prioritize projects, and allocate resources effectively.
- Preparing regular reports and update for Senior managers and stakeholders.
Qualifications & Experience required for this role:
- Proven experience as a Program Manager, or similar role, managing multiple key projects simultaneously.
- At least 5 years of diverse roles and increasing leadership responsibilities across projects or programs.
- Thorough understanding of project/program management techniques and best practices.
- Good time management, facilitation and organizational skills in a multicultural environment.
- Ability to collaborate.
- Ability to deliver / Results driven.
- Ability to understand, explain and support change.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Personal Impact/Ability to influence.
- Analytical ability.
- Ability to synthesize / simplify and to effectively convey & adapt complex information to various levels of stakeholders.
- Creativity & Innovation/ Problem solving.
- Ability to set up relevant performance indicators.
- Ability to develop and adapt a process.
- Risk awareness in banking environment (operational & compliance).
- Knowledge of Supply Chain Financing Business, related banking systems and operational processes is a plus.
- Workining knowledge in industrialisation / Digital Transformation and/or Change Management is preferable
- High Proficiency in Excel & PowerPoint.
Why Work with Us?
- We are the bank for a changing world and aim to build positive change together with our employees
- We are a team of passionate people who genuinely care about what we do and the impact our work delivers to our clients. We operate in a highly collaborative, open-minded environment that embraces innovation and creativity
- Our remuneration and benefits packages are generous, with competitive salaries, a discretionary bonus scheme, company pension contribution, comprehensive private healthcare packages, and numerous other benefits
- We have a genuine commitment to work-life balance throughout the whole organisation. We are also committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and actively promote equal opportunities.
- Development and mobility is actively encouraged. We are a learning company – there is real opportunity to grow, develop and expand your skills, experience and career path.
- We are a global company operating in over 60 countries with over 190,000 employees from over 150 nationalities. In Ireland we have approximately 500 employees across Dublin and Galway working in Corporate Institutional Banking (CIB) and BNP Paribas Security Services (BP2S) and Greenval.
Compliance Culture: We believe in promoting clear rules to foster a strong culture of compliance and ethics. We would expect any incoming member of staff to respect all financial security related legislation, including: anti-money laundering (AML); countering the financing of terrorism (CFT); international financial sanctions and embargoes (IFS); anti-bribery and corruption (ABC); KYC; ongoing client related data screening; and transaction monitoring. BNP Paribas have clear policies on these topics which all staff are expected to familiarise themselves with upon successful entry to the Group.
Equality and Diversity
BNP Paribas is an equal opportunities employer and proudly cultivates a diverse workforce. We believe that diversity of experience enhances our service offering to clients and leads to a better working environment. We encourage applications from the best candidates regardless of age, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, parental and caring status, or religious belief.
By submitting your application, you agree to BNP Paribas completing a background check and screening in advance of any potential offer being made