Project Manager

Premium Credit; Leatherhead; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider is seeking a Project Manager to oversee multiple projects in Leatherhead. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in business change and technology projects, along with strong stakeholder management skills. This full-time role offers a competitive salary between £55,000-65,000, with benefits including hybrid working, health coverage, and professional development support.

Benefits

Workplace pension scheme

25 days annual leave

Private health and dental cover

Support for personal development

24/7 access to Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Experience managing business change and technology projects.
• Experience with outsourced technology delivery teams.
• Experience in the financial services sector.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple projects and cross-workstream dependencies.
• Create and maintain detailed project plans.
• Maintain relationships with key stakeholders.

Skills

Project lifecycle management

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Process optimization

Knowledge of MS Project

Education

Project management qualification (Prince2 or PMP)

Tools

MS Project

Office tools

Job description

Overview

The Role: This is an exciting time of growth for us, and we're hiring a Project Manager to help us continue this success. Reporting to the Senior Project Manager, you'll manage multiple projects. You'll develop business cases and manage the project initiation process, collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams to support requirements gathering, create and maintain detailed project plans and ensure activities are planned, owned and executed to drive overall project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Participate in broader programme management processes, managing cross-workstream dependencies, priorities and risks
• Manage and maintain the RAID register, supporting mitigating actions for risks and issues
• Manage changes to key project parameters, ensuring the right decisions are made, expectations managed and clear communication to all parties
• Ensure SMEs are engaged and involved throughout, fulfilling their agreed accountabilities
• Create and maintain project budgets, tracking actual spend and providing realistic forecasts, ensuring that project benefits reflect the solution scope
• Maintain relationships with key stakeholders, owning communications and ensuring their buy-in
• Facilitate workshops, working collaboratively with stakeholders, SMEs and project teams to ensure effective decision making
• Ensure effective business change, communicating and influencing via change champions; supporting change impact assessments and readiness activities and providing visibility of project progress

Qualifications

• Experience of whole project lifecycle within business change and technology projects
• Experience of optimising processes and outcomes working with outsourced or off-shore technology delivery teams
• Experience of managing IT Partner and supplier services
• In-depth knowledge and experience of MS Project (Scheduling) and Office tools
• Experience within the financial services sector
• Project management qualification (Prince2 or PMP)
• Experience delivering digital projects using waterfall, agile and iterative methodologies covering the full life cycle
• You’re a natural communicator, able to manage multiple stakeholders in group and one-to-one settings, utilising your meeting management and presentation skills

Role Details

• £55,000-65,000 per year
• Permanent
• Full-time
• Location: Leatherhead, Surrey

About the Company and Benefits

Premium Credit is the leading provider of insurance premium finance and a range of annually charged services, including tax, regulatory and accountancy fees, sports season tickets, memberships and school fees in the UK and Ireland. We're a multi award winning business lending more than £5.5 billion to over 2.9 million customers through a network of over 3000 partners. Certified as a Great Place to Work in the UK and Ireland, we have a Trustpilot rating of 4.5, a Net Promoter Score of +78, a Glassdoor rating of 4.2 and a Silver Sustainability medal.

• Competitive salary up to £65,000 per annum
• Workplace pension scheme
• Hybrid working, with collaborative days in our Leatherhead office
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), with options to purchase and sell up to 5 days holiday per year (pro-rata)
• Private health and dental cover
• Support and investment in your personal development
• 24/7 access to Employee Assistance Programme and Mental Health First Aiders