Senior Project Manager

Volkswagen Financial Services (UK); Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 53,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus: 10% on‑target discretionary

Pension: 9% employer contribution

Car schemes: ECO or BEV

Private medical insurance

Job summary

Volkswagen Financial Services (UK) in Milton Keynes is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead the end‑to‑end delivery of large programmes. You will choose the right Agile, Waterfall or iterative approach to ensure success, owning scope, budgets, quality and timelines in a matrix environment.

You will influence senior stakeholders, coach PMs, manage multi‑million budgets and ensure robust governance and compliance. Hybrid working, full‑time permanent contract and extensive benefits are included.

Qualifications

• Delivery of large, complex programmes in lean‑agile environments.
• Experience with Agile, Waterfall and iterative methodologies.
• Significant budget oversight for multi‑million‑pound projects.
• Proven track record of leading matrix teams and coaching PMs.
• Experience managing third‑party suppliers throughout the lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Lead end‑to‑end delivery of large, complex projects and programmes, selecting the right approach to achieve outcomes.
• Own delivery against scope, budget, quality and timescales, managing budgets and dependencies.
• Lead and develop project teams, providing direction and support to Project Managers.
• Build robust business cases defining costs, benefits, ROI and improvements.
• Influence senior stakeholders and provide clear updates at Steering Committee/Board level.
• Anticipate and manage risks, issues and dependencies with mitigations.
• Manage third‑party suppliers and integration into the delivery plan.
• Ensure successful transition of projects into business with operating models and governance.

Education

MSP Practitioner or equivalent programme management qualification

Job description

Senior Project Manager

SALARY:

From £58,732.00 pa dependent on experience

LOCATION:

Milton Keynes

HYBRID WORKING:

Our current hybrid working policy requires a minimum of 60% of working time to be based in the Milton Keynes office however flexibility is expected to meet the needs of the business and the role.

HOURS / CONTRACT TYPE:

Full-time permanent

CLOSING DATE:

06/11/26 We reserve the right to close the advert earlier If we receive a high volume of applications.

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of large, complex projects and programmes, selecting the right Agile, Waterfall or iterative approach to achieve successful outcomes.
• Own delivery against scope, budget, quality and timescales, managing multi-million-pound budgets, resources, dependencies, risks and change.
• Lead and develop high-performing project teams, providing clear direction, coaching and support to Project Managers working across a matrix environment.
• Build robust business cases that clearly define costs, benefits, return on investment and the improvements projects will deliver.
• Influence senior stakeholders, building strong relationships across business and IT and providing clear, confident updates at Steering Committee and Board level.
• Anticipate and manage risks, issues and dependencies, challenging where necessary and ensuring effective mitigations and controls are in place.
• Manage third-party suppliers, ensuring performance, accountability and seamless integration into the wider delivery plan.
• Ensure projects transition successfully into the business, with appropriate operating models and acceptance criteria while meeting relevant regulatory, compliance and governance requirements.

What you’ll bring:

You’ll be an experienced and influential project/programme leader who thrives on delivering complex strategic change. You’ll combine strong delivery and commercial judgement with an agile mindset, bringing clarity to complexity and inspiring teams to perform at their best.

You’ll be comfortable operating with senior stakeholders, challenging constructively and making things happen in a complex, regulated environment.

Essential experience & skills:

• You'll have proven delivery of large, complex, multi-project programmes within a lean-agile environment.
• Strong experience across Agile, Waterfall and iterative methodologies, supported by a relevant lean-agile qualification.
• Significant experience managing multi-million-pound budgets, business cases and financial outcomes in a regulated environment.
• Own a strong track record of leading and developing matrix teams, including coaching, mentoring and driving performance.
• Experience managing third-party suppliers throughout the project lifecycle.
• Strong leadership, negotiation and influencing skills, with confidence operating at Director and Board level.
• Excellent understanding of risk, governance and regulatory requirements, ideally within financial services.
• An integrity-led, customer-focused and growth mindset, with the drive, curiosity and resilience to continuously improve.
• MSP Practitioner or equivalent programme management qualification.
• Experience within Financial Services, Automotive Finance or B2C consumer finance.

What’s in it for you?

Bonus: Discretionary 10% on-target bonus (based on personal and Group company performance)

Pension: Employer pension contribution of 9% (based on employee contribution of 3%). VWFS will pay 6% if employee chooses a 2% employee contribution.

Car schemes*: Choice of Employee Car Ownership (ECO) scheme for petrol/diesel and hybrid vehicles plus car insurance

OR Company Car scheme for Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) plus car insurance cover for you and a partner/eligible family member.

Other benefits: From day 1 we provide income protection, life assurance (4x salary), retail discount vouchers, access to Care Concierge (a service to support carers of adults), along with other salary sacrifice options including a will writing service and cycle to work (subject to scheme restrictions).

Following successful completion of probation, you will have access to private medical insurance for you (with the option to buy additional family cover), access to our loan car scheme for up to 2 cars for your partner or eligible family members (subject to scheme restrictions) and during our annual benefit window you can purchase critical illness cover and dental cover, so you can select the benefits that matter to you.

We invest in our people and are passionate about driving development. You’ll have access to LinkedIn Learning via our Degreed platform as well as a host of professional development programmes and opportunities to build your technical and soft skills so you can further develop your career. We also offer mentoring schemes and reciprocal partnerships recognising that we can all learn from each other in the flow of work.

Why join VWFS UK?

You’ll have the opportunity to make a difference by helping us to achieve our mission.

Our mission is straight forward; we want to be 'The Key to Mobility'. That means we make getting from A-to-B as easy and simple for as many people as possible. To truly meet the mobility needs of people in a changing world, our offering goes beyond traditional vehicle financing. We do this by providing a range of finance and aftersales products on Volkswagen Group vehicles, as well as developing innovative mobility products designed to solve real problems and support our customers.

No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you!

VWFS is proud to be an inclusive employer and encourages applications from a diverse range of candidates. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion isn't just a statement for us, we encourage and aspire for all our colleagues to be their 100% self. If you need any reasonable adjustments to assist you with the application and/or recruitment processes, please contact our Resourcing Team.

This role does not meet the UKVI’s criteria for the skilled worker sponsorship route, therefore we are unable to accept candidates requiring sponsorship for this role.