Strategy Execution, Governance & Portfolio Visibility Manager

About the role

Main Duties and Responsibilities: Strategy-to-Execution Translation & Portfolio Visibility •    Enterprise Transformation Leadership: Serve as the central coordination lead for enterprise transformation initiatives, ensuring transformation programmes are governed, aligned, monitored, and reported consistently across the Bank. •    Strategic Initiative Translation: Coordinate the translation of EBTL's strategic priorities into clearly defined executable enterprise initiatives with assigned owners, milestones, deliverables, and measurable performance targets. •    Initiative Intake & Onboarding Discipline: Own the formal registration and scoping of all initiatives before they enter the portfolio tracker. Ensure no initiative operates outside the governed portfolio , whether originating from Board Directives, EXCO commitments, Group mandates, or workstream expansions , by maintaining a defined intake process that captures scope, ownership, dependencies, and baseline before activation. •    Portfolio Visibility: Maintain enterprise initiative portfolio visibility, providing a single consolidated governance view of delivery across all strategic and transformation initiatives. •    Strategic Alignment Management: Ensure strategic objectives, delivery plans, performance targets, and transformation outcomes remain continuously aligned and delivered across functions, programmes, and strategic initiatives. •    Initiative Prioritisation: Support prioritisation and sequencing of initiatives based on strategic significance, dependency, and institutional exposure. •    Balanced Scorecard Alignment: Align initiative delivery and performance tracking to the institutional Balanced Scorecard, ensuring strategic objectives cascade into measurable execution. Governance Reporting •    Executive & Board-Adjacent Reporting: Produce structured Board, EXCO, ManCo, SteerCo, and Board-adjacent reporting on strategic initiative performance, delivery status, and transformation progress. •    RAG Reporting: Maintain RAG (Red / Amber / Green) status reporting across the portfolio, providing clear and defensible assessments of delivery health. •    Committee Pack Coordination: Coordinate and quality-assure committee packs to a standard the Managing Director can sign off without redraft. •    Strategic Execution Health Reporting: Coordinate preparation of the Strategic Execution Health Reports submitted to the Managing Director. Directive, Decision & Risk Governance •    Directive Log Management: Maintain the Board, Managing Director and EXCO Directive Execution Log, tracking executive directives and Board commitments through to completion with visible accountability. •    Decision Governance Tracking: Maintain a structured decision register capturing key approvals, decisions, assumptions, dependencies, and management actions to support transparency, accountability, and audit-ready records. •    Issue, Risk & Dependency Logs: Maintain issue, risk, and dependency logs with the rigour to change behaviour rather than sit in a folder, escalating unresolved items with precision. •    Risk Escalation: Escalate material governance and delivery risks through defined protocols where institutional exposure exists. Delivery Governance & Coordination •    Delivery Governance Cadence: Establish and maintain the delivery governance cadence so that governance routines run on a disciplined, predictable rhythm. •    Change Control Governance: Own the formal change control process for all active portfolio initiatives. Assess, document, and obtain appropriate approval for any change to scope, timeline, budget, or resource assumptions. Maintain a controlled baseline so that RAG assessments and milestone tracking retain a reliable reference point throughout delivery. •    Dependency & Conflict Management: Map cross-initiative dependencies and surface sequencing conflicts that threaten interdependent commitments. •    Resource & Capacity Conflict Identification: Maintain a live r