Senior Project Manager

Ecclesiastical Insurance Group; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading organization seeks a Senior Project Manager for their Gloucester office to oversee significant technology changes. This role requires managing complex initiatives, ensuring effective delivery, and fostering team collaboration within a purpose-led environment. Join a company that values personal development and aims for community impact.

Benefits

Generous annual bonus scheme up to 30%

28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Health and wellbeing benefits including private healthcare

Full study support for professional qualifications

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Experienced in managing successful complex technology change.
• Proven expertise in stakeholder engagement and leadership.
• Strong understanding of agile and Scrum methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead strategic IT change projects.
• Ensure clear communication with stakeholders and teams.
• Oversee supplier performance and manage data migration.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder Management

Communication

Planning

Agile Methodologies

Supplier Management

Critical Thinking

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

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Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration: Permanent

Location: Gloucester

About the role

Benefact Group, are looking for a SeniorProject Managerto join ourGloucesteroffice.

The purpose of this role is to support the Benefact Group’s significant technology transformation by managing various strategic initiatives. As part of the Transformation team, but closely aligned with Group Technology, the project manager will ensure seamless integration and effective delivery of complex IT change projects. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in driving the company's technology strategy forward and delivering business value.

Joining our rapidly expanding andinnovative Group presents a fantastic opportunity to develop your career andbecome an integral part of an inclusive, purpose-led organisation.

Key responsibilities

• Managing and leading key strategic projects: In line with corporate strategy, standards and ethos, e.g. Group Change Approach. Projects will be required to meet business needs and deliver agreed business value and benefits. You will be responsible for utilising resources and skills, within agreed parameters of cost, timescales, and quality;
• Managing Complex IT Change: If assigned, oversee and manage complex IT change projects. Coordinate with IT teams and business stakeholders to ensure seamless integration of changes.
• Communication and Stakeholder Management: Ensure clear and consistent communication with team members and business stakeholders. This includes regular updates on project progress, transparent reporting, engaging stakeholders early and often, and establishing clear communication channels with an ability to communicate complex technical issues to non technical stakeholders.
• Coordination of Multiple Teams: Coordinate change initiatives dependent on multiple delivery teams, ensuring alignment, managing dependencies, and integrating changes smoothly. Facilitate regular communication and collaboration with team leads. Be comfortable in leading teams following agile, waterfall or hybrid methodologies.
• Supplier Management: Work closely with external suppliers to ensure their deliverables meet project requirements and integrate smoothly into the overall project plan. Manage contracts, monitor performance, and maintain strong relationships.
• Data Migration and Decommission: Plan and execute data migration activities, ensuring data integrity and minimal disruption to business operations. Develop migration strategies, coordinate with data owners, and validate success.
• Operational and Business Readiness: Collaborate with Service Management, Technology Leadership, and Business Stakeholders to ensure the project is usable and supported post-implementation.
• Jira Management: Utilise Jira for project tracking, issue management, and reporting. Ensure the team effectively uses Jira as a single source of truth for managing tasks and workflows.
• Project Fundamentals: Plan, budget and capacity manage projects along with identifying, documenting, and managing Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies (RAID) to maintain project momentum and avoid delays.

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Demonstrable experience in managing successful complex technology change
• Good business acumen and Financial Services experience
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills, work well with others, ability to motivate and inspire those around you, be proactive and customer focussed;
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills and an ability to influence at all levels within the organisation, including at executive level.
• Strong planning and delivery skills;
• Supplier Management – on/nearshore and offshore
• Confident in using JIRA and Confluence
• A strong understanding of various Agile and Scrum elements, including Agile planning and Agile project management with Scrum
• Outstanding organizational skills, especially the ability to prioritise
• Remain calm and thrive under pressure.
• Superior critical thinking capabilities
• Comfort with quickly changing priorities
• Highly developed adaptability and flexibility

What we offer

• A competitive salary - let's discuss it
• Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
  
• Generous annual bonus scheme up to 30%
  
• 28days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme
  
• A range of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance
  
• Up to £400 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice
  
• Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year
  
• Employee Assistance Programme
  
• Full study support to gain professional qualifications
• Access to virtual GP
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

About us

Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and have been the 3rd largest UK corporate donor over a decade*, having given away £250 million since 2014. We have ambitious plans to become the UK’s number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives in place to double the Group’s size.

We believe it’s essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135-year history and the diversity of what we do, has enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and of passionate people driven to do better and be better.

At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating aninclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of usfeels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with arange of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interestsand we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applicationsfrom everyone.

If you need any additional support during therecruitment process, then please let us know.

*Directory of Social Change’s UK Guides to Company Giving 2017-26