Job Title: Senior Project Manager
Location: Fleet, with 2 days home working a week once probation has been passed
Salary: £65,000 – £80,000, depending on experience
Working hours: 35 hours. Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm
Benefits:
- 11% non-contributory pension scheme from day 1 of employment
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Annual leave buying scheme
- Private medical insurance
- Annual discretionary bonus
- Free annual flu jabs
- 4x life assurance
- 75% income protection
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay and leave
- Free eyecare vouchers
- 2 days paid volunteering days per year
- Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme
About the role of Senior Project Manager
Our client is a Specialist Mortgage Lender who has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Manager to join their IT Department. The successful candidate will have 1 direct report and will support the end-to-end delivery of projects including systems implementation, regulatory changes and operational process change. There may be the expectations to work non-typical office hours to support software upgrades and releases.
Responsibilities for the position of Senior Project Manager
- Delivery across the full Project Lifecycle
- Initiating projects; taking the initial sponsor mandate and setting up the requisite governance
- Managing resource, time and people to ensure all tasks are agreed up front and are completed according to the project plan
- Looking after the full project portfolio and reporting
- Undertaking Business Analysis – eliciting business requirements from a stakeholder to understand what the issue is
- Clearly summarising project information in a succinct manner and presenting effectively to the project stakeholders
- Liaise effectively with all project stakeholders, including senior stakeholders
- Managing a portfolio of projects simultaneously, whilst continuing to drive all projects forward to delivery
- Reporting to the Programme Director and working collaboratively with the Project team
- Lead, coach and develop team members to ensure competence and help them achieve their objectives and potential.
- Identify and prioritise training needs to meet business requirements.
Experience required for the position of Senior Project Manager
- Line management experience is preferred, but not essential
- Must have an understanding and/or experience of working on technical IT and Cyber Security projects
- Experience of working with a mortgage lender is desired
- Experience working with 3rd party systems providers
- 5+ years of experience as a Project Manager
- Prince 2, APM or Agile PM qualifications would be desired but not essential
- Experience in using systems such as MS Office, MS Projects and JIRA
- Familiarity with UK Financial Services is desirable
For more information regarding the role of Senior Project Manager please contact us
Stellar Select is acting as an employment agency and is a corporate member of the REC
Due to a high volume of applications, we will only contact you if your application has been successful. We aim to contact all successful contacts within two business days