Senior Project Manager

Premium Credit; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider in the UK seeks a Senior Project Manager to lead the transition from traditional to Agile project management methodologies. In this pivotal role, you will manage multiple projects, collaborate with diverse teams, and ensure effective communication with stakeholders. Candidates should have a Prince2 or PMP qualification, along with significant experience in managing large transformation projects within the financial services sector. This position offers a competitive salary and hybrid working arrangements.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Workplace pension scheme

Hybrid working

25 days annual leave

Private health and dental cover

Support for personal development

24/7 Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Significant experience of large transformation projects.
• Experience of the whole project life cycle encompassing both technology and business change projects.
• Experience within the financial services sector.

Responsibilities

• Deliver multiple projects or large singular projects with multiple workstreams.
• Manage changes to key project parameters, ensuring clear communication.
• Create and maintain project budgets, tracking actual spend.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder management

Budgeting and resource allocation

Communication

Education

Prince2 or PMP qualification

Tools

MS Project

Office tools

Job description

Join us at a pivotal moment of transformation. We’re moving from traditional Waterfall to Agile ways of working—and we need a Senior Project Manager who knows how to make that journey successful.

You’ll bring proven experience guiding organisations through this shift, balancing strong governance with the flexibility Agile demands. From quarterly PI planning to embedding new practices, you’ll be the driving force that keeps delivery on track while enabling change to stick.

If you thrive on making things happen and have the expertise to lead teams through transition with confidence and clarity, we want to hear from you.

Ready to lead transformation? Submit your CV and a covering letter telling us how you’ve helped organisations evolve and deliver results.

Premium Credit is the leading provider of insurance premium finance and a range of annually charged services, including tax, regulatory and accountancy fees, sports season tickets, memberships and school fees in the UK and Ireland. We're a multi award winning business lending more than £5 billion to over 2.5 million customers through a network of almost three thousand partners- and growing.

Recently certified as a Great Place to Work in the UK and Ireland, we’re a successful business with a Trustpilot rating of 4.5, a Net Promoter Score of +78, a Glassdoor rating of 4.2 and a Silver Sustainability medal.

• Competitive salary
• A workplace pension scheme
• Hybrid working, with collaborative days in our Leatherhead office
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), with options to purchase and sell up to 5 days holiday per year (pro rata)
• Private health and dental cover
• Support and investment in your personal development
• 24/7 access to Employee Assistance Programme and Mental Health First Aiders

The Role

Reporting to the Head of Change Delivery, you'll deliver multiple projects or large singular projects with multiple workstreams, collaborating with cross disciplinary teams to develop business cases and manage project initiation processes, ensuring that activities are planned owned and executed to drive overall project delivery.

You Will

• Participate in broader programme management processes, managing cross-workstream dependencies, priorities and risks
• Understand the technical design process, ensure that functional and non-functional requirements are understood and delivered against
• Manage and maintain the RAID register, supporting mitigating actions for risks and issues.
• Manage changes to key project parameters, ensuring the right decisions are made, expectations managed and clear communication.
• Ensure SMEs are engaged throughout, fulfilling their agreed accountabilities.
• Create and maintain project budgets, tracking actual spend and providing realistic forecasts, ensuring that project benefits reflect the solution scope.
• Maintain relationships with key stakeholders, owning communications and ensuring their buy-in.
• Facilitate workshops, collaborating with stakeholders, SMEs and project teams ensuring effective decision making.
• Ensure effective business change, influencing via change champions; supporting impact assessments and readiness activities and providing visibility of project progress.
• Provide role modelling and leadership behaviours
• Promote training, working with direct reports to ensure requirements are actioned

Who we are looking for

You’ll hold a relevant qualification (Prince2 or PMP) and significant experience of large transformation projects. You’re a natural communicator, able to manage multiple stakeholders in group and one to one settings in a mainly remote environment.

You’ll have;

• Experience of the whole project life cycle encompassing both technology and business change projects
• Working experience in an Agile environment
• Experience of optimising processes / outcomes working with outsourced and off-shored globally distributed technology delivery teams
• Skilled in budgeting and resource allocations
• Experience of managing IT Partner and supplier services
• In depth knowledge and experience of MS Project (Scheduling) and Office tools
• Experience within the financial services sector especially insurance, credit / loan provision and payments

We're committed to providing reasonable adjustments or accommodations for applicants, so if you need support during the recruitment process, please let us know on the application form or send an email to [e-mail]

If you're made an offer of employment you’ll be required to prove your eligibility to work in the UK before you start work. You must reside in the UK from the start date of this role; unfortunately we are unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time.

To ensure you can work from home efficiently you'll be asked to provide your internet speed at the application stage.

Premium Credit are an equal opportunities employer with a strong and passionate commitment to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion in the workplace. We welcome applications from all sections of the community and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

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All postholders will be subject to appropriate pre-employment vetting procedures and a satisfactory Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check prior to appointment.

Please note, we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we identify a number of suitable candidates. All applicants will be advised if the vacancy closes early.

We are not engaging agency support for this role and respectfully ask that agencies do not submit unsolicited candidate details to Premium Credit Limited in relation to this role.