Senior Project Manager

Royal London; Alderley Edge; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mutual life and pensions company in the UK is seeking a Senior Project Manager to manage complex projects and lead high-performing teams. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in financial services project delivery, excellent stakeholder management skills, and the ability to work autonomously. This role offers a hybrid working style and excellent workplace benefits including 28 days annual leave and medical insurance.

Benefits

28 days annual leave

Up to 14% employer matching pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Qualifications

• Proven track record of successful project and programme delivery in Financial Services.
• Experience of building and leading high performing teams.
• Strong stakeholder management experience up to C-suite.

Responsibilities

• Manage complex initiatives spanning multiple lines of business.
• Full project life cycle management from initiation to deployment.
• Provide status reporting on project milestones and risks.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Financial risk control

Job description

Job Title: Senior Project Manager

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Plymouth

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 8th December 2025

We have a unique opportunity for a Senior Project Manager role to support an exciting new venture within the Chief Operating Office, that will help shape the future of Royal London.

Our Chief Operating Office (COO) works across Royal London to help deliver the Group's strategic ambitions. We work in partnership to deliver operational excellence, drive innovation, enhance customer experience, and protect our business from threats impacting our industry.

We are the largest business unit within Royal London, bringing together thousands of colleagues to look after millions of customers to deliver great outcomes for customers. Our business focuses on aligning colleagues, applications and projects with our three business value streams: Long Term Savings, Protection & Equity Release, and Long-Standing Customers & Annuities, led by our Chief Information Officers, our Shared Service Platforms and Enabling Teams. This role sits within Protection & Equity Release.

Royal London acquired Responsible Lending in 2024 and has given us a great opportunity to broaden the solutions available to our customers to support them in retirement and build financial resilience. As part of this acquisition we are now integrating the business into the Royal London infrastructure and ways of working, and are looking to bring in an experienced project manager who has experience of mergers and acquisitions, and who understands the complexities involved.

About the role

• Manage complex initiatives that span one or multiple lines of business.
• Full project life cycle management from initiation to deployment, with proven ability to operate at different stages of the project cycle simultaneously.
• Provide leadership for project team by coaching and motivating team members to meet project goals, to ensure they realise their potential.

• Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating across leadership.
• Understand interdependencies between technology, operations and business needs.

• Promote continuous improvement by activelyengaging within colleagues across COO and other areas of Royal London.
• Build a collaborative, commercial relationshipwith 3rd parties to manage costs and maximise value.

• The role will lead and / or People Manage technical resources comprising internal, contract and supplier resource.
• Matrix management across multiple disciplines - BAs, developers, testers, technical resources, third parties and business SMEs.

About you

• Proven track record of successful project and programme delivery, ideally in a Financial Services environment.
• Experience of building and leading high performing teams, creating a supportive environment to maximise colleague contribution and engagement.
• Highly competent in use of planning tools and experienced in operating financial and risk control frameworks in a project setting.
• Proactivity and future thinking around the managementand control ofprogramme/project costs and benefits.
• Strong stakeholder management experience at all levels up to C-suite.
• Thorough understanding of different project delivery methodologies and ways of working and able to adopt the most suitable approach to a given project.
• A self-starter, able to work with minimum supervision or direction.

About Royal London

We're the UK's largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.

Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits

Inclusion, diversity and belonging

We're an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected - whatever their background.