Senior Project Manager

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Job Title: Senior Project Manager

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Alderley Edge, Glasgow, or Edinburgh

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 19th November 2024

We are seeking a talented Senior Project Manager to join our Change team. This is a great opportunity to lead a diverse range of projects or small portfolios, all of which will support achievement of the Group strategy, effectively and efficiently.

The team deliver data and technology focused projects in key areas including Brand & Marketing, Enabling Functions, Customer, Commercial and within our technical space. You will have overall responsibility for planning and managing the delivery of the function's change projects and support for the portfolio covering both Business and Technical driven change.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing organisation and to work on a variety of projects with budgets varying in size and scale.

About the role

• Manage complex data and technology initiatives that span one or multiple lines of business (including small portfolios).
• Full project life cycle management from initiation to deployment, with proven ability to operate at different stages of the project cycle simultaneously.
• Promote continuous improvement by actively engaging within colleagues across Change and other areas of Royal London
• Build a collaborative, commercial relationships with 3rd parties to manage costs and maximise value.

About you

• Proven track record of successful project and programme delivery, ideally (but not essential) in a Financial Services environment.
• Familiar with managing complex, interdependent deliveries resolving conflicting priorities with stakeholders and impact assessing / agreeing changes to plan.
• Experience of building and leading high performing teams, creating a supportive environment to maximise colleague contribution and engagement.
• High competence in use of Microsoft Project and Waterfall, Agile and Hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Proactivity and future thinking around the management and control of programme/project costs and benefits, with focus on risk and financial management.
• Strong stakeholder management experience at all levels up to C-suite.
• Thorough understanding of different project delivery methodologies and ways of working and able to adopt the most suitable approach to a given project.
• A self-starter, able to work with minimum supervision or direction.

About Royal London

We're the UK's largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.

Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits

Inclusion, diversity and belonging

We're an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected - whatever their background.