Project Manager - Pensions

Job Description

Project Manager required to work for a consultancy that provides pensions administration and software solutions to both public and private sector organisations.

You would get to lead a team of pensions administrators as well as other project support staff and pensions SMEs, delivering a range of projects such as GMPe work, Buy ins / buyouts, calculations and onboarding of new clients, amongst other things.

The role offers a lot of flexibility around working with 1 day a week in the Liverpool office after the first month, which requires more regular time there.

Responsibilities include

• Delivery of pension technical projects that sit outside of the BAU pension administration activities to DB, DC and Hybrid occupational pension schemes.
• Managing the team to deliver external client project work agreed with trustees/clients
• Project planning and budgeting from start to finish, including regular tracking against scope and milestones
• Overseeing the build of proformas and other calculation solutions
• Dealing with external clients through full project lifecycle, including attending client/trustee meetings regularly to update on delivery.
• Managing a team of senior administrators, including looking at training and development
• Reviewing complex calculations as required, interpreting the rules of the schemes and other documentation.

You will need to have

• Previous experience of delivering projects for external clients
• Experience in both process change and systems / software delivery
• Some knowledge of pension buy-in’s/out’s and transition processes
• Knowledge of GMP, DB, DC and hybrid schemes
• Previous exposure to working with DB pensions
• Strong stakeholder management skills.