Job Description

This is a fixed term contract until mid 2027.

ABOUT US:

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a commitment to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years.

Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services – and our open-access model – we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.

LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific. LSEG’s ticker symbol is LSEG.

OUR PEOPLE:

People are at the heart of what we do and drive the success of our business. Our culture of connecting, creating opportunity and delivering excellence shape how we think, how we do things and how we help our people fulfil their potential.

We embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. We break down barriers and encourage teamwork, enabling innovation and rapid development of solutions that make a difference. Our workplace generates an enriching and rewarding experience for our people and customers alike. Our vision is to build an inclusive culture in which everyone feels encouraged to fulfil their potential.

We know that real personal growth cannot be achieved by simply climbing a career ladder – which is why we encourage and enable a wealth of avenues and interesting opportunities for everyone to broaden and deepen their skills and expertise.

As a global organisation spanning 70 countries and one rooted in a culture of growth, opportunity, diversity and innovation, LSEG is a place where everyone can grow, develop and fulfil your potential with meaningful careers.

LSEG RISK INTELLIGENCE

LSEG Risk Intelligence offer a suite of datasets, products, and services to enable regulated businesses and corporate organisations to manage their know your customer (KYC) & anti-money laundering (AML) compliance, empower digital customer on-boarding, conduct third party risk due diligence, and detect fraud.

LSEG Risk Intelligence is the global leader in financial crime & fraud risk management data & analytics. Enabling our customers and partners to deliver sustainable growth, by providing a seamless experience to their customers, whilst helping them to meet their regulatory obligations and manage risk effectively.

The LSEG Risk Intelligence mission is to combine our expertise in Digital identity, Financial Crime Screening & Third-Party Risk to deliver market leading solutions to our customers and partners and generate £1bn in annual revenues by ​year end 2027.

ROLE PROFILE

We are seeking an experienced Programme Manager to lead the programme delivery across our Active Data Layer (ADL) programme of development.

ADL is a transformative end-to-end capability for managing how data is collected, structured, governed, and leveraged across the Risk Intelligence organisation.

The implementation of ADL requires complex programme management, close collaboration with multi-stakeholders, and coordination with other interlocking initiatives and dependencies.

Given the multi-dimensional nature of the programme, the ADL Programme Manager must be comfortable and competent working across a variety of domains, including business change, technology, AI and Agentic, data governance, supplier management, and legal.

Responsible for driving the direction and delivery of the ADL programme work to achieve strategic objectives and transformational outcomes of the programme. Focus is on the end to end, from inception through to market launch, delivery of the outcomes in relation to major product, technical and change initiatives, Integrated delivery plans across programmes -dependency mapping, requirement reconciliation and creating critical paths. Responsible for defining, and constant refinement, of the best practises of programme delivery to increase the agility, speed and quality of execution. The role is also responsible for mapping out change process for primary user community over time – indicating how the deliveries change how the user community operates.

A key part of this role is to support and guide Product & Proposition leads through the RI defined PLM cycle, increasing the overall speed and quality of delivery.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Provides overall programme leadership, guidance and technical expertise to lead all aspects of a programme from the initial ‘inception phase’ through requirements analysis, business case creation, planning to execution.
• Holds ultimate accountability for delivery, managing programmes with great complexity, impact, risk, budget variances and change requests.
• Monitors overall progress of the programme, with particular focus on budgets, key milestones, resources, and dependencies.
• Aligns programmes to the strategic delivery, portfolio and transformation direction, ensuring prioritisation of key projects and devising new ideas and initiatives to support the organisation.
• Creates Integrated delivery plans across dependent programmes -dependency mapping, requirement reconciliation and creating critical paths.
• Responsible for mapping out change process for primary user community over time – indicating how the deliveries change how the user community operates.
• Responsible for defining, and constant refinement, of the best practises of programme delivery to increase the agility, speed and quality of execution.
• Responsible for defining and ongoing refinement of the approach, process and artefacts that support the adoption of ‘best practises’ in Programme Management.
• Produces reports for senior management, and collaborators (Product, user community, LSEG PMO and Finance) on the progress of the programme against objectives and plans, highlighting any improvement areas and the requirements to correct them.
• Promotes and fosters collaboration across broad categories of partners, providing leadership in cross-functional meetings and representing the seniority of the programme or senior partners in governance boards and committees.
• Collaborates with the Head of Technology, Product and Content ops to ensure the programme achieves objectives and aligns with business priorities.
• Leads, coaches, and mentors programme and project managers within the programme, setting performance and delivery expectations to yield consistent results, whilst highlighting and promoting successful practices across the organisation.
• Ensures all projects adhere to LSEG Group Standards for project methodology, governance and risk management.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Critical thinking - Develops a broad, big-picture view of the organisation and its mission to innovate through analysis of issues and trends and how these link to responsibilities, capabilities and potential of the organisation.
• Critical Thinking - Analyses and evaluates facts, data and information to form a judgement.
• Outcome focussed – drives programmes to focus on delivery of common outcomes across teams.
• Dependency Mapping – Able to identify key dependencies between ongoing work and ability to create visual dependency mapping – for milestones and process.
• Commercial competence - Possesses broad knowledge of how businesses work; deep persona and customer knowledge; knows customer workflows, contacts and how they integrate into processes; applying understanding to specific business use cases across product offerings.
• Technical competence – Understands / has experience of technical delivery (preferable within a data engineering context) in terms of cadence, terminology, delivery cycle, agile, AI and Agentic.
• Customer focus - Demonstrating a customer-centric approach to explore business challenges, developing tailored solutions and providing trusted advice.
• Decision making - Takes a data led approach to assessing and solving challenges leading to the selection of ideas to reach the best outcome in the shortest amount of time.
• Communication - Communicates with clarity and precision, communicating complex information in a concise format that is audience appropriate.
• Stakeholder management - Builds positive relationships with internal and external collaborators to understand their drivers and negotiates positive outcomes.

Career Stage:

Manager

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Information:

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas. We are committed to sustainability across our global business and we are proud to partner with our customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives. Our charity, the LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence. Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

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