Project Manager

Standard Life (previously Phoenix Group); Birmingham; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical cover

38 days annual leave

Excellent pension

12x salary life assurance

Job summary

Standard Life is seeking a Project Manager to join the Pensions & Savings Change team. You will lead complex change initiatives across multiple areas, coordinating with suppliers and internal teams to deliver outcomes that align with business strategy.

You will drive governance, manage dependencies and risks, and ensure business readiness and adoption into BAU operations as programmes progress in a fast-paced Financial Services environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience of delivering complex change in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience with Change Capability and broad Change delivery skills.
• Experience of collaborating with Outsource Providers and/or Third Parties and holding them to account.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery activity from initiation through implementation, managing scope, plans, dependencies, risks, issues and stakeholders.
• Ensure business readiness and operational impacts are understood and managed.
• Oversee governance, RAID, reporting and delivery controls for high-profile programmes.
• Support business readiness and adoption activities for smooth BAU transition.

Skills

Change management

Stakeholder management

Governance

RAID management

Vendor management

Business readiness

Programme management

Strategic planning

Job description

Job Description

Job Type:Permanent

Salary and benefits: Up to£72,000 discretionary bonus, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more.

Flexible working: All roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about flexible working here.

Location: Edinburgh, Telford or Birmingham

Closing Date: 14/08/26

We’re Standard Life, a retirement specialist focused entirely on retirement savings and income. We champion the belief that everyone’s journey to and through retirement can be better, and for more than 200 years, we’ve been helping our customers plan and prepare for their financial futures.

Life today is increasingly complicated, uncertain and unpredictable. People move through different careers, face unexpected moments and navigate important choices. We offer our colleagues flexibility, trust and benefits that work for whatever life brings. In return we expect curiosity, connection, accountability and high standards.We make room for what matters - so you can bring your best, every day.

At Standard Life, we’ve built a hugely successful, well respected and rapidly developing business by putting our people first. We believe attracting, developing, motivating and inspiring exceptional people benefits our customers, our shareholders and ultimately, our performance. We strive to be the best place anyone has ever worked. Join us and you can look forward to challenging and rewarding work, alongside highly skilled colleagues with world class expertise.

The Role

The Pensions and Savings Change Hub is a dynamic team of change professionals driving strategic transformation across three core delivery centres. We play a pivotal role in aligning change initiatives with business strategy, enabling market-leading outcomes in a fast-paced and evolving environment.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager with experience in delivering complex business and operational change within Life & Pensions to join the Pensions & Savings Change team.

This is a high-profile strategic initiative and will involve working across multiple business areas, programmes and third-party suppliers to deliver change safely and effectively, ensuring strong governance, stakeholder engagement and business readiness throughout the project lifecycle.

The role will require the successful candidate to lead delivery activity from initiation through to implementation, managing scope, plans, dependencies, risks, issues and stakeholders to achieve agreed business outcomes. The role will also ensure business readiness and operational impacts are understood and appropriately managed, supporting a smooth transition into business-as-usual operations.

What We’re Looking For

• Proven experience of delivering complex change in a fast-paced environment, ability to demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of Change Capability and show breadth and depth of Change delivery skills.
• Experience of delivering change and collaborating effectively, and in partnership with, Outsource Providers and/or Third Parties, holding these parties to account as per the delivery agreements and foster excellent working relationships across both internal and external delivery teams.
• Proven ability to work with Business SMEs to influence Change initiation, and turn a strategic or operational intent into a Change delivery plan.
• Proven ability to problem solve, develop innovative solutions and deliver business outcomes, offering maximum value to stakeholders within a cost pressured environment.
• Experience of delivering large-scale integration, separation, migration or acquisition-related programmes, preferably within Life & Pensions or Financial Services.
• Experience of managing complex dependencies across multiple business, operational, technology and third-party workstreams, ensuring activity remains aligned to key programme milestones.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders, challenge constructively and drive delivery across a complex organisational landscape.
• Experience of establishing and maintaining effective governance, RAID management, reporting and delivery controls for high-profile strategic programmes.
• Experience of supporting business readiness, operational implementation and adoption activities to ensure successful transition of change into BAU operations.

We want to hire the whole version of you.

We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.

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