Project Manager

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Location: Hybrid working with 5 days per fortnight in our Head Office (Leek, Staffordshire) and the remaining time remotely.

Employment type:Full-time, permanent position.

Salary: £35,000 to £55,000 - Depending on Experience

Working hours: 35 hours per week.

Reports to: Programme Manager

Direct Reports: None.

The Organisation

Leek Building Society is an award winning, highly admired, local mutual building society that is owned and trusted by its members. We were ranked in the top 10 of UK employers in the Inspiring Workplaces Awards 2024, and we're on a mission to become even stronger.

We're a great place to work, with an exceptional culture - in a recent staff survey, 97% of colleagues said that they were proud to work for Leek Building Society. We've been crowned as Staffordshire's Employer of the Year for 2023, and have been recognised as having the best approach to health & wellbeing in the UK in the 2023 CIPD awards. We're also a socially responsible, inclusive employer, deeply committed to ensuring that everyone is supported to perform at their best.

You'll be joining the business at a fantastic time of growth, with a transformational investment in our systems, people and processes to put our customers at the heart of everything we do.

If you're driven and organised this could be just the opportunity for you!

Job Purpose & Scope

Leek Building Society is currently on a journey to deliver a driven programme of change which will contribute to its overall strategy.

As part of the overall programme, this exciting and diverse role is required to support the Society in delivery of our corporate plan through scoping, managing, and delivering change.

We require a person to join our Change team who has the experience and passion to motivate teams and deliver projects across the change programme. This includes increasing our digital capability, driving business efficiencies, and ensuring we deliver regulatory change.

Duties and Key Responsibilities

The Project Manager is responsible for the day-to-day management of projects and has proven experience of:

• Scope and Schedule management
• Risk and Issue management
• Finance and cost control management
• Resource and people management
• Benefits management
• Communication management
• Test and release management

The Project Manager needs to be comfortable dealing with a wide variety of stakeholders and also needs to adapt their style of management and leadership to each situation. The post-holder will have the personal and professional experience to build and manage meaningful and supportive relationships across the team and with external providers in order to deliver successful projects. In addition, the Project Manager will be expected to:

Clearly and thoroughly identify the scope of the project(s) Work with the project team to identify and schedule all the work required to fulfil the scope Identify resourcing needs in line with the project plan Manage projects in line with the Change Management Framework and Change Risk Management Policy Coordinate day to day testing activities Where appropriate, deliver serviceable outcomes to the business through effective handovers

Person Specification

Qualifications & Knowledge

Essential:

• Professional qualification in project management, such as APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ) or another recognised qualification (e.g. Prince2 or PMP), or relevant experience
• Knowledge of project management in a portfolio management environment
• Knowledge of change management and process improvement methodologies

Desirable:

• Knowledge of and familiarity with Financial Services

Experience

Experience of:

• Delivering complex and / or material projects to time, cost, and quality
• Managing multiple concurrent projects and appropriately handling conflicting demands
• Translating analysis into practical implementation
• Facilitation and workshop experience
• Managing test cycles
• Different project management approaches and software development methodologies
• Working with third party providers to deliver change

Skills & Abilities

• Well-developed planning and organisational skills including scope and schedule management
• Risk and issue management experience
• Finance and cost control management experience
• Resource management experience
• Benefits management experience - including producing business cases and benefits tracking
• Outstanding communication and inter-personal skills
• Effective negotiation skills
• MS Project experience

Other Requirements

• Travel to other business locations when required

What benefits are on offer:

• Competitive salary rates
• 35 hour working week (full-time)
• Contributory Stakeholder Pension Scheme
• Free health screening
• Minimum of 23 days paid holiday per annum plus bank and public holidays
• Parental Schemes
• Sick Pay guaranteed for 6 months for major illnesses
• Holiday purchase/sale scheme
• Life assurance of 4 times your annual salary
• Employee assistance programme
• Continuous development opportunities
• We're open to discussing working flexibly
• Onsite gym available to employees

If the above sounds like something you'd thrive at, we'd love to hear from you