Project Manager - Pensions

ZipRecruiter; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Project Manager to lead a dynamic team in delivering pension administration projects. This role involves managing a range of technical projects, ensuring quality delivery, and maintaining strong relationships with clients. With flexibility in working arrangements and opportunities for travel, this position is perfect for someone with a solid background in project management and pension schemes. If you are passionate about driving project success and fostering team development, this is the opportunity for you to make a significant impact in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering projects for external clients is essential.
• Knowledge of pension schemes like GMP, DB, and DC is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of pension technical projects outside of BAU activities.
• Manage project planning, budgeting, and client communications.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Project Delivery

Process Change

Systems Delivery

Pension Knowledge

Job description

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 office but may also involve travel to other offices on occasion.

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.