Senior Project Manager

Requirements

• Track record of large-scale project delivery in Financial Services – ideally in Wealth Management/Investments/Pensions
• Third party delivery experience – have extensive experience delivering through third party partnerships
• Demonstrated strong project governance and budget management, with accountability for maintaining financial control, governance discipline, and transparent reporting to senior stakeholders
• Strong dependency management across multiple workstreams
• (Desirable) Experienced in managing complex interdependent deliveries across multiple workstreams and vendors
• (Desirable) Experience of delivering both technical and business change
• (Desirable) Commercial awareness, understanding of how to apply a commercial lens to discussions and decisions
• (Desirable) Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with experience presenting at a senior level and having difficult but constructive conversations with senior stakeholders as this role works directly with sponsors and chair Steering Committees
• (Desirable) Problem solving – ability to understand the challenges their team are facing and help them find the route to resolution
• (Desirable) Ability to quickly assess a situation and determine the correct next steps and priority tasks for the team to focus on
• (Desirable) Relevant Project / Programme / Portfolio / PMO Management qualification(s) e.g., PRINCE2

What the job involves

• This role sits in our Adviser business which provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to bring value for their businesses and their clients
• The Adviser Change team is a specialised function supporting the development and transformation of Aberdeen’s award winning open‑architecture platforms; Wrap and Elevate; as well as the broader change agenda of Aberdeen’s Adviser business
• As a Senior Project Manager, you will report into the Programme Management team and will lead a cross‑functional team of change professionals to both sustain and radically transform our end‑to‑end Adviser business
• Responsibility for a large project, workstream(s), or release within a programme, ensuring delivery is to time, budget and quality
• Applies and champions the appropriate project management discipline, i.e. planning, resourcing, scheduling, monitoring, reporting and risk, assumption, issue and dependency management
• Establishes an effective project organisation structure
• Responsible for the development and management of budget and expenditure within their workstreams / projects
• Responsibility for managing relationships with stakeholders (including Exec Stakeholders) and key customers to ensure delivery meets requirements
• Responsible for setting and managing the quality of deliverables for projects ensuring that appropriate standards are applied
• Ensure the delivered workstream / project meets the needs of the business as specified in the original requirements and that the agreed quality standards have been met
• Responsible for reporting and presenting on workstream / project status to the Programme, Steering Committee, stakeholders (including Exec Stakeholders) and senior management as required

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