This is a great opportunity for a project manager who has experience within financial services, ideally with a pensions background, to join a thriving project management team, to deliver a variety of client facing and internal pension change projects.
Location: Remote (however client offices are based in Reading on the rare occasion you may need to meet in person)
The rate on offer: £700 via Umbrella.
Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am - 5:30pm.
Contract: 6 months initially.
What you’ll be doing:
- End-to-end management of moderately complex to complex projects ensuring work is delivered on time, within budget and to a high level of client satisfaction.
- Development and maintenance of detailed, robust, high-quality risk plan and project plan including resources, scope, cost, assumptions, dependencies - keeping plans updated through the lifecycle.
- Undertake regular work stream and project meetings, documenting and following up on actions and risks identified. This will also include regular project assessments through toll gate reviews and health checks.
- Understand the impact of scope changes and adjusting project plans and communication accordingly.
- Review significant project proposals of high complexity and ambiguous parameters with high visibility and identifiable risk to the company, validating all project requirements, providing recommended changes to the proposal, as appropriate.
- Cross-departmental resource management, negotiating resource requirements as needed internally vs conflicting priorities.
- Client facing communication as needed, ensuring progress, risks and issues are communicated clearly and with a solutions-focussed approach.
- Assigning work to entry level and support team members as required, ensuring support is given to adhere to departmental standards and procedures.
- Contributing to a culture of continuous improvement, actively recommending new standards and procedures based on project experience and results.
What we’d like to see from your application:
- PRINCE2 or similar qualification.
- Experience of completing the entire project lifecycle, from inception to implementation.
- Track record of delivering pensions projects and bulk exercises to time, quality, and budget.
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Able to articulate complex messages with clarity to all audiences.
- Ability to cope with high demand requirements of stakeholders.
- Expertise in making high level decisions and implement operational plans.
- Collaborative team player who can influence outcomes as well as work independently.
- Knowledge of pensions administration operations and pensions legislation.
Email your CV to vacancies@hazellcarr.com to apply for this role with the subject matter: (Pension Project Manager - Remote)
Please note any offer is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks. These consist of employment, activity & GAP verification, DBS or Access NI, Credit, Sanctions & CIFAS checks.
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