Overview of Department
Purpose of Role The Project Manager is responsible for delivering projects within agreed scope, time, cost, and quality parameters. The role is accountable for establishing and maintaining effective project governance, planning, and controls, ensuring that delivery remains aligned with the approved business case, the agreed methodology, and the firm’s Project Management Framework. The Project Manager provides clear visibility of progress, risks, dependencies, financial position, and decisions, and works with sponsors, delivery teams, PMO, Finance, and business stakeholders to deliver successful outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Deliver projects in line with agreed scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations.
- Support the preparation of business cases, including financial forecasts and delivery assumptions.
- Establish and maintain project governance and controls in line with the framework.
- Maintain RAID logs and project decision logs.
- Monitor and report on project progress, risks, issues, dependencies, and interdependencies.
- Track financial performance and project resourcing, including actual versus forecast costs, and escalate variances as required.
- Ensure mandatory project data is complete and accurate.
- Manage effective vendor relationships and support delivery where third parties are involved.
- Work closely with Sponsors, Product Owners, Delivery Managers, Finance, PMO, and wider delivery teams to ensure successful delivery and handover.
- Ensure governance stage gates, stakeholder reporting, testing, readiness, and handover activities are completed appropriately.
Your Knowledge and Experience
- Prior and proven project management experience is essential, ideally within financial services or another regulated, complex environment.
- Strong understanding of project governance, planning, lifecycle delivery, and core control disciplines including risk, dependency, and change management.
- Good knowledge of project financial management, including budgeting, forecasting, and cost oversight.
- Experience working across a wide stakeholder group, with the ability to build credibility, communicate clearly, and provide constructive challenge.
- Familiarity with Waterfall, Hybrid, and Agile delivery approaches, and the judgement to apply them proportionately to different types of change.
Qualifications
- Recognised project management qualification (preferred) or equivalent practical experience.
Type of Candidate that we’re looking for
You are a proactive, organised, and delivery-focused Project Manager who enjoys taking ownership and making things happen. You build strong relationships across teams, work confidently with a broad range of stakeholders, and bring people together to keep delivery aligned and moving forward.
Naturally curious and commercially aware, quick to spot risks, issues, or gaps, and practical in how you work with others to resolve them. You combine a structured approach with the flexibility to adapt when priorities change, communicating in a clear, calm, and constructive way to support successful delivery.
The role is based in Edinburgh, it can not be performed on a remote working basis. Regular office attendance on a weekly basis is required.
Critical Skills (not limited to)
- Adaptability
- Enabling others
- Improvement mindset
- Systems thinking
Closing DateApril 17, 2026
At Baillie Gifford we are committed to fostering an inclusive and respectful culture in which each of our colleagues can thrive and develop. We believe that our clients are best served by a diverse workforce with the experiences, ideas and perspectives that this brings.
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