Senior Project Manager

Tesco Insurance; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 66,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance provider in Edinburgh is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead transformative initiatives within their Transformation & Agile Practices team. Candidates will manage medium to large-scale projects, ensuring they deliver on time and within budget. Responsibilities include building stakeholder relationships, maintaining project plans, and navigating risks effectively. The role offers a hybrid working model and an attractive salary range of £66,400 - £99,600, alongside a variety of benefits.

Benefits

Private Healthcare

Generous holiday allowance

Performance related annual bonus

Colleague Clubcard discount

Critical Illness cover

Ongoing learning opportunities

Qualifications

• Solid experience delivering medium to large-scale projects in transformation or financial services.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and maintain momentum.
• Experience engaging and aligning stakeholders at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, mobilisation, and delivery of projects, ensuring they meet scope and quality standards.
• Build strong relationships with project sponsors and stakeholders.
• Communicate progress and manage project risks, issues, and dependencies.

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Risk management

Communication

Tools

Agile methodologies

Waterfall methodologies

Job description

Overview

Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Salary Range from £66,400 - £99,600 & Benefits & annual bonus.

Work Level – 2.

Location — Edinburgh, Permanent, blended working.

Office Attendance - Our roles are hybrid. However, you should be able to work from your nearest IMS office 2-3 days per week for this position. Occasional travel to other Tesco offices may also be required.

Closing Date - applications close 30th January 2026 at 17:00.

There has never been a more exciting time to join Tesco Insurance and Money Services. We’re gearing up for the mobilisation and delivery of several key transformation initiatives that will shape the future of how we operate — and we’re looking for exceptional talent to help make it happen.

Opportunity

We’re looking for a Senior Project Manager to join our Transformation & Agile Practices team — someone who thrives in a fast‑moving environment and can bring structure, clarity, and momentum to complex change.

In this role, you’ll lead medium to large‑scale projects (or multiple projects at once), shaping the vision, plans, and delivery approach from the outset. You’ll be responsible for end‑to‑end execution, from planning through to implementation, reporting, and performance management — ensuring delivery is on time, within budget, and to scope.

You’ll be comfortable making informed decisions, navigating complex challenges, and leading teams and stakeholders to successful outcomes.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead the end‑to‑end planning, mobilisation, and delivery of medium–large projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and to agreed scope and quality.
• Develop and maintain project plans, RAID logs, delivery milestones, and performance metrics.
• Build strong, trusted relationships with project sponsors, business owners, and senior stakeholders across Tesco Insurance & Money Services.
• Communicate progress, risks, decisions, and impacts through clear and concise reporting, adapting to different audiences.
• Facilitate workshops, decision forums, and cross‑functional working groups to ensure alignment and momentum.
• Support a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the project team.
• Proactively identify, manage, and escalate project risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies.
• Ensure compliance with governance processes, including Enterprise Change PMO standards.
• Manage project budgets, forecasts, and financial tracking, ensuring value for money and transparency of spend.
• Support business case development and benefits tracking, ensuring expected value is delivered.
• Prepare and present project updates for governance forums, steering groups, and leadership reviews.
• Work closely with operational leaders to ensure smooth transition into BAU, including training, communications, readiness assessments, and post‑implementation support.
• Facilitate the embedding of new processes, systems, or controls to ensure changes are fully adopted and benefits are realised.

We need you to have

• Solid experience delivering medium to large‑scale projects, ideally within transformation, financial services, insurance, or similarly complex environments.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross‑functional teams, drive clarity, and maintain momentum across multiple workstreams.
• Experience engaging, influencing, and aligning stakeholders at all levels — with confidence communicating progress, risks, and decisions.
• Experience working with third‑party suppliers and delivery partners, ensuring outcomes are delivered to agreed scope, quality, and timelines.
• Ability to translate plans, risks, and insights into clear messaging for different audiences, including senior leaders.
• Understanding of project budgeting, forecasting, value for money, and how delivery aligns to wider business objectives.
• A focus on delivering change that improves customer experience and business outcomes.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, assess options, make informed decisions, and manage risks proactively.
• A mindset that looks for ways to enhance delivery practices, simplify processes, and drive better ways of working.
• Familiarity with project delivery methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall, hybrid) and supporting tools, with the ability to apply them pragmatically.

And if you have any of these, even better

• Previous Financial Services experience.
• Insurance and/or Money Services experience.
• Experience working in an agile change environment.

We don’t expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the brief, it’s worth exploring to further develop your career here with us at Tesco Insurance and Money Services.

What’s in it for you?

• Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
• Private Healthcare for WL2 and Virtual GP Service for you and your family 365 days a year.
• Performance related annual bonus.
• Indulge in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the opportunity to buy holiday.
• Embrace the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, enjoy a 10% discount that increase to 15% every payday. As an added perk, we’ll give you a second card to share with someone else.
• Green Car Leasing Scheme.
• Critical Illness cover.
• Benefit from our family-oriented initiatives, encompassing enhanced maternity leave pay, a shared parental leave policy, and a generous 8‑week paid paternity leave.
• A place to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.
• Take part in our Buy as you Earn and Save as you Earn share schemes.

Everyone’s welcome

We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be themselves. We are committed to building a more inclusive workplace and celebrating everything that makes colleagues unique, and value the richness and diversity this brings to our business. A more diverse business helps us deliver on our purpose to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Why Tesco Insurance and Money Services?

Seeing your impact all around you: there"s no better feeling.

Lucky for us, we get to feel it all the time. Because whatever our role, we"re helping our colleagues and serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.

We deal in the personal – from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you’ve worked hard for.

Everything we do is about making things better. Not just for others, but for you too. It"s why you"ll get bags of choice and plenty of development. It"s why you"ll always be heard and find balance that works for you. It"s why you"ll feel totally at home in a place where everyone"s welcome.

So, if you want a career where you can do good and feel good, you\'ve found it.

Let\'s make everyday a little better.

Our story

Making Insurance and Money Services more rewarding and offering great value and choice - because we know little wins can make a big difference.

We began life in 1997 and now help more than 2 million customers protect what matters to them.

We want to deliver a helpful service in everything we do and to make life easier for our customers. Our policies are really easy to manage online for our customers, but we know that being able to speak to our customer service staff when you need to is really important. This is why our customer service centers are open seven days a week.

Delivering great customer service means having great people behind the scenes – people who understand our customers and are driven by doing the right thing for them. We offer colleagues a place where they can feel totally at home in a place where everyone\'s welcome, where they can be part of a great team focused on making a real difference for our customers.

How to apply

We value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals.

Our colleagues are working hybrid, taking time to meet with colleagues in our offices for moments that matter, such as team catch ups, planning meetings and more. If you’re interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Insurance and Money Services looks like, click apply to find out more!