Location: Edinburgh / Alderley Park (Manchester) (Hybrid – 3 days per week onsite)
Contract: 12 months
The Role
We are looking for an expert with proven experience in large-scale transitions or complex change environments—those who can navigate operational, technical, and people-centric change to ensure a smooth, well-governed, and high-quality transition. As a Senior Project Manager, you will:
- Lead our most complex and critical initiatives
- Apply best project management practices to ensure outcomes are delivered to time, cost, and quality objectives
- Provide leadership to the delivery team, building and motivating team members to meet project goals
- Define and agree required project resources for successful delivery
- Manage risks and issues, understanding the wider risk context associated with the business and delivery
- Build collaborative relationships with third parties to manage delivery, costs, and maximise value
- Implement appropriate governance in line with Group methods
- Control project costs and understand the impact on Group-wide financial performance and value to the customer
- Coach and mentor other Project Managers in the team, potentially with people management responsibilities
- Contribute to continuous improvement of ways of working within our change delivery environment
Your Profile
We are seeking candidates with extensive, demonstrable experience delivering complex projects within financial services, including:
- Ability to solve and unblock issues within teams or departments
- Adaptable communication style across all levels of the organisation
- Skills to build consensus between organisations or diverse stakeholders
- Proactive and future-focused approach to managing and controlling project costs and benefits
- Strong interpersonal skills to influence, facilitate change, and enhance performance in a cross-functional environment
- Experience leading project teams and building trust, confidence, commitment, and collaboration
- Experience of integration programmes, platform migrations, or similar transformation projects is highly desirable
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