Senior Manager, Transformation Management Office
Top Benefits
About the role
Job Description
What is the opportunity?
The Wealth Management Europe Transformation Management Office (TMO) oversees and guides WME through transformation efforts, ensuring alignment with strategic goals. The TMO will manage the transformation process with a focus on transparency, agile ways of working, and in-year value creation within multi-year programs, playing a key role in communicating progress on transformation programmes to senior leaders, including updates on program milestones, benefits realization, and helping to remove barriers/escalations for programme teams.
The Senior Manager, Wealth Management Europe (WME) TMO role will enable the TMO to guide change initiatives through key steps to align programs with the WME’s vision and goals. This role will support Business Change & Transformation (BC&T) teams through the process of identifying key strategic programs, creating OKRs, moving through the PAR approval process to secure funding on prioritized programmes, and providing advisory services to enable key stakeholders to perform core functions, including program planning and structuring, effectively managing risks, monitoring LOB’s portfolio health along with expenses & benefits and ensuring delivery consistency across WME through execution.
RBC’s expectation is that all employees and contractors will work in the office with some flexibility to work up to 1 day per week remotely, depending on working arrangements.
What will you do?
- Oversee WME intake, triage, funding, and (re)prioritization processes.
- Facilitate alignment of OKRs and program investments to strategic priorities.
- Maintain a single source of truth and report on portfolio health, spend, risks, interdependencies, and benefits/outcomes in coordination with key partners.
- Facilitate strategic decision-making for segment leadership.
- Track the status of large program roadmaps and their initiatives articulated with WME’s strategic priorities and provide oversight.
- Communicate value realization to senior stakeholders.
- Provide advisory support to enable the business and other stakeholders to perform core functions, including program planning and structuring, business casing and funding, program governance and delivery model (including 3-in-a-box role of Business, T&O and Digital), issue and risk management, benefit realization and tracking, and use of TMO tools.
- Ensure early adoption of strategic ways of working, governance model and defined accountabilities for business teams.
- Enable WME and delivery teams with best practices, tools, and coaching for self-managed execution.
- Establish and maintain guidelines, tools, and templates on mandatory processes (e.g., intake, prioritisation, funding, execution).
- Provide oversight to ensure adoption of tools and templates and adherence to standards.
- Continuous improvement through upskilling and development of WME TMO and BC&T resources.
- Seek opportunities to automate and digitise reporting, governance, and performance tracking processes.
- Champion the use of advanced analytics, dashboards, and other insights to improve forecasting, decision-making, and portfolio optimisation.
- Partner with senior leaders to advise on investment prioritisation, programme execution challenges, and delivery trade-offs.
- Represent WME TMO in enterprise-level forums, ensuring alignment to group-level governance and reporting expectations.
- Work closely with WM TMO to ensure transparency on status of WME programs and understanding of LoB and Enterprise level changes to governance frameworks.
- Lead and coach direct reports, setting clear objectives, fostering professional growth, and building a succession pipeline.
- Establish clear accountabilities within the TMO, ensuring role clarity, effective delegation, and driving execution consistency.
- Align TMO team activities to WME priorities and enterprise-level portfolio standards.
What do you need to succeed?
Must-have
- Proven success in project, program, and/or portfolio management in a large financial institution or corporation including financial planning, leading initiatives from planning into execution.
- Expert knowledge with productivity tools (e.g. Planview, Atlassian: Confluence & JIRA, Excel, PowerPoint, Tableau, Power BI, data visualization) and techniques for planning, monitoring and controlling projects, programs and portfolios.
- Experience with business cases, investments, benefits/value, OKR tracking, and the ability to translate data into insights that supports problem analysis and identification of recommendations.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to communicate a wide variety of complex information in both oral and written format at all levels of an organisation.
- Demonstrated collaboration skills to obtain results through partnerships, impact and influence, being comfortable to deal with uncertainty and maintaining an open-flexible mindset.
- Excellent prioritisation and coordination skills, combined with the ability to work to multiple deadlines under pressure.
Nice-to-have
- Experience in Agile Coaching and/or Change Management, providing advise & guidance for execution roles.
- Experience of business analysis on large transformational initiatives.
- Project management qualifications (Prince 2, PMP, etc.).
- Wealth Management / International work experience.
- Strong working relationship with businesses and control functions.
What is in it for you?
We thrive on the challenge to be our best - progressive thinking to keep growing and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.
- A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses, flexible benefits and competitive compensation
- Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
- Opportunities to work with the best in the field
- Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
Agency Notice
RBC Group does not accept agency resumés. Please do not forward resumés to our employees, nor any other company location. RBC Group only pay fees to agencies where they have entered into a prior agreement to do so and in any event do not pay fees related to unsolicited resumés. Please contact the Recruitment function for additional details.
#LI-SS2
Job Skills
Adaptability, Business Appraisals, Change Controls, Commercial Acumen, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Interpersonal Relationship Management, Long Term Planning, Organizational Change Management, Overcoming Resistance to Change
Additional Job Details
Address:
12 SMITHFIELD STREET:LONDON
City:
London
Country:
United Kingdom
Work hours/week:
35
Employment Type:
Full time
Platform:
WEALTH MANAGEMENT
Job Type:
Regular
Pay Type:
Salaried
Posted Date:
2025-10-17
Application Deadline:
2025-11-01
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above
About RBC
Royal Bank of Canada is a global financial institution with a purpose-driven, principles-led approach to delivering leading performance. Our success comes from the 94,000+ employees who leverage their imaginations and insights to bring our vision, values and strategy to life so we can help our clients thrive and communities prosper. As Canada's biggest bank and one of the largest in the world, based on market capitalization, we have a diversified business model with a focus on innovation and providing exceptional experiences to our more than 17 million clients in Canada, the U.S. and 27 other countries. Learn more at rbc.com. We are proud to support a broad range of community initiatives through donations, community investments and employee volunteer activities. See how at www.rbc.com/community-social-impact.
La Banque Royale du Canada est une institution financière mondiale définie par sa raison d'être, guidée par des principes et orientée vers l'excellence en matière de rendement. Notre succès est attribuable aux quelque 94 000+ employés qui mettent à profit leur créativité et leur savoir faire pour concrétiser notre vision, nos valeurs et notre stratégie afin que nous puissions contribuer à la prospérité de nos clients et au dynamisme des collectivités. Selon la capitalisation boursière, nous sommes la plus importante banque du Canada et l'une des plus grandes banques du monde. Nous avons adopté un modèle d'affaires diversifié axé sur l'innovation et l'offre d'expériences exceptionnelles à nos plus de 17 millions de clients au Canada, aux États Unis et dans 27 autres pays. Pour en savoir plus, visitez le site rbc.com/francais
Nous sommes fiers d'appuyer une grande diversité d'initiatives communautaires par des dons, des investissements dans la collectivité et le travail bénévole de nos employés. Pour de plus amples renseignements, visitez le site www.rbc.com/collectivite-impact-social.
Senior Manager, Transformation Management Office
Top Benefits
About the role
Job Description
What is the opportunity?
The Wealth Management Europe Transformation Management Office (TMO) oversees and guides WME through transformation efforts, ensuring alignment with strategic goals. The TMO will manage the transformation process with a focus on transparency, agile ways of working, and in-year value creation within multi-year programs, playing a key role in communicating progress on transformation programmes to senior leaders, including updates on program milestones, benefits realization, and helping to remove barriers/escalations for programme teams.
The Senior Manager, Wealth Management Europe (WME) TMO role will enable the TMO to guide change initiatives through key steps to align programs with the WME’s vision and goals. This role will support Business Change & Transformation (BC&T) teams through the process of identifying key strategic programs, creating OKRs, moving through the PAR approval process to secure funding on prioritized programmes, and providing advisory services to enable key stakeholders to perform core functions, including program planning and structuring, effectively managing risks, monitoring LOB’s portfolio health along with expenses & benefits and ensuring delivery consistency across WME through execution.
RBC’s expectation is that all employees and contractors will work in the office with some flexibility to work up to 1 day per week remotely, depending on working arrangements.
What will you do?
- Oversee WME intake, triage, funding, and (re)prioritization processes.
- Facilitate alignment of OKRs and program investments to strategic priorities.
- Maintain a single source of truth and report on portfolio health, spend, risks, interdependencies, and benefits/outcomes in coordination with key partners.
- Facilitate strategic decision-making for segment leadership.
- Track the status of large program roadmaps and their initiatives articulated with WME’s strategic priorities and provide oversight.
- Communicate value realization to senior stakeholders.
- Provide advisory support to enable the business and other stakeholders to perform core functions, including program planning and structuring, business casing and funding, program governance and delivery model (including 3-in-a-box role of Business, T&O and Digital), issue and risk management, benefit realization and tracking, and use of TMO tools.
- Ensure early adoption of strategic ways of working, governance model and defined accountabilities for business teams.
- Enable WME and delivery teams with best practices, tools, and coaching for self-managed execution.
- Establish and maintain guidelines, tools, and templates on mandatory processes (e.g., intake, prioritisation, funding, execution).
- Provide oversight to ensure adoption of tools and templates and adherence to standards.
- Continuous improvement through upskilling and development of WME TMO and BC&T resources.
- Seek opportunities to automate and digitise reporting, governance, and performance tracking processes.
- Champion the use of advanced analytics, dashboards, and other insights to improve forecasting, decision-making, and portfolio optimisation.
- Partner with senior leaders to advise on investment prioritisation, programme execution challenges, and delivery trade-offs.
- Represent WME TMO in enterprise-level forums, ensuring alignment to group-level governance and reporting expectations.
- Work closely with WM TMO to ensure transparency on status of WME programs and understanding of LoB and Enterprise level changes to governance frameworks.
- Lead and coach direct reports, setting clear objectives, fostering professional growth, and building a succession pipeline.
- Establish clear accountabilities within the TMO, ensuring role clarity, effective delegation, and driving execution consistency.
- Align TMO team activities to WME priorities and enterprise-level portfolio standards.
What do you need to succeed?
Must-have
- Proven success in project, program, and/or portfolio management in a large financial institution or corporation including financial planning, leading initiatives from planning into execution.
- Expert knowledge with productivity tools (e.g. Planview, Atlassian: Confluence & JIRA, Excel, PowerPoint, Tableau, Power BI, data visualization) and techniques for planning, monitoring and controlling projects, programs and portfolios.
- Experience with business cases, investments, benefits/value, OKR tracking, and the ability to translate data into insights that supports problem analysis and identification of recommendations.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to communicate a wide variety of complex information in both oral and written format at all levels of an organisation.
- Demonstrated collaboration skills to obtain results through partnerships, impact and influence, being comfortable to deal with uncertainty and maintaining an open-flexible mindset.
- Excellent prioritisation and coordination skills, combined with the ability to work to multiple deadlines under pressure.
Nice-to-have
- Experience in Agile Coaching and/or Change Management, providing advise & guidance for execution roles.
- Experience of business analysis on large transformational initiatives.
- Project management qualifications (Prince 2, PMP, etc.).
- Wealth Management / International work experience.
- Strong working relationship with businesses and control functions.
What is in it for you?
We thrive on the challenge to be our best - progressive thinking to keep growing and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.
- A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses, flexible benefits and competitive compensation
- Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
- Opportunities to work with the best in the field
- Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
Agency Notice
RBC Group does not accept agency resumés. Please do not forward resumés to our employees, nor any other company location. RBC Group only pay fees to agencies where they have entered into a prior agreement to do so and in any event do not pay fees related to unsolicited resumés. Please contact the Recruitment function for additional details.
#LI-SS2
Job Skills
Adaptability, Business Appraisals, Change Controls, Commercial Acumen, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Interpersonal Relationship Management, Long Term Planning, Organizational Change Management, Overcoming Resistance to Change
Additional Job Details
Address:
12 SMITHFIELD STREET:LONDON
City:
London
Country:
United Kingdom
Work hours/week:
35
Employment Type:
Full time
Platform:
WEALTH MANAGEMENT
Job Type:
Regular
Pay Type:
Salaried
Posted Date:
2025-10-17
Application Deadline:
2025-11-01
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above
About RBC
Royal Bank of Canada is a global financial institution with a purpose-driven, principles-led approach to delivering leading performance. Our success comes from the 94,000+ employees who leverage their imaginations and insights to bring our vision, values and strategy to life so we can help our clients thrive and communities prosper. As Canada's biggest bank and one of the largest in the world, based on market capitalization, we have a diversified business model with a focus on innovation and providing exceptional experiences to our more than 17 million clients in Canada, the U.S. and 27 other countries. Learn more at rbc.com. We are proud to support a broad range of community initiatives through donations, community investments and employee volunteer activities. See how at www.rbc.com/community-social-impact.
La Banque Royale du Canada est une institution financière mondiale définie par sa raison d'être, guidée par des principes et orientée vers l'excellence en matière de rendement. Notre succès est attribuable aux quelque 94 000+ employés qui mettent à profit leur créativité et leur savoir faire pour concrétiser notre vision, nos valeurs et notre stratégie afin que nous puissions contribuer à la prospérité de nos clients et au dynamisme des collectivités. Selon la capitalisation boursière, nous sommes la plus importante banque du Canada et l'une des plus grandes banques du monde. Nous avons adopté un modèle d'affaires diversifié axé sur l'innovation et l'offre d'expériences exceptionnelles à nos plus de 17 millions de clients au Canada, aux États Unis et dans 27 autres pays. Pour en savoir plus, visitez le site rbc.com/francais
Nous sommes fiers d'appuyer une grande diversité d'initiatives communautaires par des dons, des investissements dans la collectivité et le travail bénévole de nos employés. Pour de plus amples renseignements, visitez le site www.rbc.com/collectivite-impact-social.