Project Manager

St. James’s Place; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days' annual leave

Private Medical Insurance

Generous Pension Scheme

Enhanced Parental Leave

Protection Benefits

EV salary sacrifice scheme

Job summary

St. James’s Place is seeking a Project Manager to drive strategic change across our investment platforms, processes, and technology.

You will coordinate complex initiatives, align cross-functional teams, and deliver solutions that enhance investment outcomes and client experience. The role requires end-to-end project delivery, strong stakeholder management, and the ability to navigate governance and regulatory considerations within the financial services industry.

Qualifications

• Experience in Investment Management across sizes and complexities.
• End-to-end project lifecycle delivery from requirements to post-delivery support.
• Strong stakeholder management across business and technical teams.
• Coordinate with engineers, architects, vendors and senior leaders for outcomes.
• Awareness of Agile and Waterfall delivery approaches.
• Experience with governance, risk, and regulatory considerations in financial services.

Responsibilities

• Manage business projects from initiation to implementation, ensuring they meet user requirements with flawless execution.
• Prepare and present progress reports, issues, and budgets to the steering committee.
• Assess workloads and expenses for project activities and tasks.
• Develop and maintain positive relationships with key collaborators.
• Liaise with third parties to align deliverables and track achievements.
• Support the coordination of user acceptance testing and test strategy development.
• Provide on-the-job training, support, and mentorship to less experienced colleagues.

Skills

Investment Management

Stakeholder Management

Vendor Management

Project Delivery

Risk & Governance

Agile/Waterfall

Cross-functional Leadership

Job description

At a glance

Location: Lombard Street L/4/1

Workplace Type: Hybrid

Employment Type: Permanent

Seniority: Mid-Senior Level

About the role:

As a Project Manager within the Investment Value Stream at St. James’s Place, you will play a pivotal role in delivering strategic change across our investment platforms, processes, and technology landscape. Working at the heart of a dynamic and evolving investment business, you will coordinate complex initiatives, drive operational improvements, and support the delivery of innovative solutions that enhance investment outcomes and client experience. This is an exciting opportunity to join an ambitious team committed to excellence, helping shape the future of our investment proposition and contributing to the delivery of world-class results.

What you'll be doing:

• Manage business projects from initiation to implementation, ensuring they meet user requirements with flawless execution.
• Prepare and present progress reports, issues, and budgets to the steering committee.
• Assess workloads and expenses for project activities and tasks.
• Develop and maintain positive relationships with key collaborators.
• Liaise with third parties to align deliverables and track achievements.
• Support the coordination of user acceptance testing and development of test strategies and plans.
• Provide on-the-job training, support, and mentorship to less experienced colleagues.

About you:

You will be an experienced Project Manager with a proven track record of working within Investment Management across a range of sizes and complexities. You will have experience managing end-to-end project lifecycles, from requirements gathering and planning through to implementation, testing, and post-delivery support.

With strong stakeholder management skills, you will build effective relationships across business and technical teams, working closely with engineers, architects, vendors, and senior leaders to ensure successful project outcomes. You will be adept at managing project plans, budgets, risks, issues, dependencies, and governance, while maintaining clear communication with all stakeholders.

• Strong Investment Management / Asset Management experience, with a practical understanding of front, middle and back-office investment processes, ideally including fund operations, investment risk, regulatory change, data, fund accounting and/or investment platforms.
• Strong third-party/vendor delivery experience, comfortable managing delivery across external technology and service providers alongside internal SJP teams.
• Proven delivery of complex investment change projects, taking initiatives from mobilisation and requirements through delivery, testing, implementation and business readiness, with strong control of plans, dependencies, risks, issues and milestones. The IVS environment includes projects with significant cross-project dependencies and regulatory/business outcomes.
• Strong senior stakeholder and cross-functional leadership, able to coordinate Investment, Operations, Technology, Risk, Compliance, Procurement and external suppliers and drive issues and decisions through to resolution.
• Experience in the financial services industry.
• Awareness of the different project delivery approaches (eg Agile/Waterfall)

What's in it for you?

Whatever stage of life you're in, our benefits are designed to provide the support, flexibility, and peace of mind you need to thrive both at work and beyond.

In addition to our discretionary annual bonus scheme, which reflects both individual and company performance, you'll benefit from a market-leading benefits package tailored to support your wellbeing, financial security, and family life.

Our benefits include:

• 28 days' annual leave plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase up to 5 additional days.
• Private Medical Insurance – company-funded cover for you and your immediate family
• Generous Pension Scheme – a non-contributory employer contribution of 10%, increasing with length of service up to 15%, plus the opportunity to increase this through salary sacrifice
• Enhanced Parental Leave – up to 26 weeks' full pay to support growing families.
• Protection Benefits – company-funded critical illness cover, income protection, and life assurance
• EV salary sacrifice scheme through Tusker

Reasonable Adjustments

We're an equalopportunities employer and want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible and inclusive for all, if you require reasonable adjustment(s) at any stage please let us know by emailing us at [e-mail]. Research tells us that applicants (especially those from underrepresented groups) can be put off from applying for a role if they do not meet all the criteria or have been on an extended career‑break. If you think you would be a good match for this role and can demonstrate some transferable experience