Project Manager

Stott and May; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services consultancy is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex initiatives and ensure a smooth transition in challenging change environments. The role involves managing risks, coaching team members, and implementing governance. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in delivering projects within financial services, strong leadership skills, and the ability to build consensus among diverse stakeholders. This role offers a hybrid working model in Edinburgh or Alderley Park.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in delivering complex projects within financial services.
• Ability to adapt communication style across all organisational levels.
• Strong leadership skills in building trust and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex and critical initiatives, ensuring project delivery.
• Build collaborative relationships with third parties for cost management.
• Coach and mentor other Project Managers, enhancing team performance.

Skills

Problem-solving

Communication

Consensus-building

Cost management

Interpersonal skills

Leadership

Change management

Job description

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