Job title: Senior Project Manager
Duration: 6 months initial term
Pay: £750 per day PAYE
Location: 2 days per week in our Stratford, London office
- In September 2026, we move to 50% in office across the month
Your recruitment contact is Olivia Greig at Hays.
About the organisation
Our client is an independent regulatory body in the UK responsible for ensuring the financial markets work well for the consumers and the economy, promoting market integrity and effective competition.
About the team
We are currently recruiting for a Project Manager to join us within our Operations & DTI (Data, Technology and Innovation) Change Directorate.
The Change Directorate is at the forefront of our ambition to transform the organisation into a data-led regulator, and the work enables them to effectively regulate some of the UK’s most complex financial markets.
About the role
This role provides an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Project Manager to deliver some of the organisation’s highest‑priority public commitments, operating as a hands‑on technical delivery PM within an IT delivery programme.
Initially focused on the continuation of a large‑scale email deletion programme, the role will then expand to further IT and data workstreams. The position operates in a highly ambiguous environment and requires strong experience working with development teams, controlling scope, and driving delivery within a wider programme. It is well suited to a self‑starter comfortable owning outcomes end to end and operating beyond a standalone project model.
Responsibilities:
- Successfully deliver business and technical change projects end-to-end, from inception through to project outcomes, following quality standards and within agreed baselines of time, budget, and scope
- Building and managing stakeholder relationships across the organisation, managing expectations, defining, and agreeing scope, facilitating key decisions and managing exceptions and escalations as needed
- Developing and implementing appropriate project management controls and governance to set up the initiatives for success, specifically developing the investment case, project plan, deliverables, and milestones to successfully deliver the business outcomes, identifying and sourcing resources to achieve time and cost expectations
- Validating assumptions and resolving dependencies, issues, and risks within delivery
- Ensure delivery adheres to the Change Delivery Framework, including Governance Framework
- Lead the project board meetings and produce the relevant materials, including portfolio reporting
What we’re looking for:
Minimum:
- Experience managing successful business and technology change projects (£multi-million) in Financial Services or for a government or regulatory body
- Experience managing employees and 3rd parties in a matrix, from inception through to end of warranty / exit criteria achieved
- Evidence of shaping business ideas and initiatives into investment cases and detailed project plans for multi-workstream delivery to achieve business outcomes
- Demonstrable evidence of planning and controlling project delivery
Essential:
- Experienced at leading people through structural, procedural and cultural change, gaining commitment to new ways of working
- Ability to build working relationships with sponsors, accountable executives, key business stakeholders and business SMEs
- Politically savvy, able to balance conflicting strategies, priorities and personalities, resilient and tenacious to ensure delivery whilst managing conflict
- Analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, identifying and managing dependencies, risks and issues to ensure successful delivery
- Excellent communication skills, able to engage with all levels of the organisation, providing timely and meaningful communications to update status, share progress and manage expectations of stakeholders
- Able to use influencing and negotiating techniques
Disability Confident: our hiring approach
We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, and therefore, people or individuals with disabilities and long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. In cases of high application volumes, we may progress applicants whose experience most closely matches the role’s key requirements.
What are the next steps?
If you are interested in the role, click the apply button and we will get in touch with you to discuss next steps.