Senior Project Manager

Location Glasgow
Discipline: IT
Job type: Permanent
Contact name: Gary Simpson

Contact email: gary.simpson@change-digital.co.uk
Contact phone: 0141 5668922
Job ref: 135209
Published: 5 months ago
Expiry date: 31 Aug 2024 00:59

Are you an experienced Senior Project Manager ?

 

Do you have experience working in the Life, Pensions and Investments industry ?

 

Would you like to work for a company that has been going through a very successful transformation ?

 

This is a permanent role, they are based in Glasgow and its hybrid working.  I will only consider candidates who are / will be living within commuting distance.

 

If you would like to work for a fantastic company who have a great track record of hiring exceptional people please continue reading.

 

There are 2 roles here, working in different business areas:

 

Commercial:    Looking at their products, distribution and digital channels (Life & Pensions knowledge, highly beneficial to have knowledge of ISA, JISA, Bonds)

 

Operations:       System upgrades, regulatory changes, incident remediation (Life & Pensions knowledge)

 

Your experience should include:

  • Minimum 5+ years as a Project Manager and / or Senior Project Manager working in a fast paced, technology driven, financial services environment, ideally with Investment and Pensions experience.
  • Experience of delivering customer service and customer facing digital solutions
  • Experience of waterfall and agile ways of working
  • Exceptional collaboration and relationship development/management skills
  • Ability to filter/interpret technical programme updates and provide clear, concise action plans for a variety of levels within a business
  • Attention to detail and an analytical ability
  • Detailed and strong experience of the following Project and Programme Management activities:
    • Programme / Project Initiation and Mobilisation
    • Programme / project planning, engaging across the enterprise involving all stakeholders
    • Value add governance activity, reducing delivery risk and optimising benefit delivery,  including through planning, financial, RAID, business readiness, benefit and change control disciplines
    • Crystal-clear programme and project reporting
    • Developing enterprise change management capabilities through development of others
  • Experience of JIRA would be beneficial.

For more information get in touch asap