People Project Manager

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. Min fees. Max ease. Full speed. Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their life easier and save them money.

We’re looking for a People Project Manager with change management experience to join our growing People function. This role is based in London and sits within the People Programmes, Experience and Analytics team which is responsible for helping to build a high performing people function driving an exceptional colleague experience.

Here’s how you’ll be contributing to the People Programmes, Experience & Analytics team:

• Build and maintain close trusted partnerships across the People team to enable collaboration, delivery and success on all People projects.
• Project manage some of the biggest and most impactful people projects directly to ensure they are delivered successfully.
• Provide project management support and advice across the entire people projects portfolio.
• Partner across the people function to increase the project management capability of the People team through delivering and developing training, implementing project management toolkits and helping to lead a project management community of practice.
• Drive, embed and continuously improve the project and programme management processes and governance structures that are being put in place to improve project delivery within the function.
• Help the people team and Leads to identify and recommend areas, where they should be focusing next in addition to helping prioritise projects.
• Hold the People Team and their stakeholders to account when it comes to projects, their planning and deliverables, making sure we remain on track as a function.
• Support project change management and communications from planning through to execution to ensure alignment across project change and communication activities.

About you:

• You are passionate about good project management - you’ll be strongly solutions focused, able to identify problems and drive initiatives that have measurable impact.
• You will have project management experience, and a recognised project management qualification.
• You have a solid grounding in change management and communication - you’re great at guiding the business through change and amazing at communicating effectively.
• You are data driven - you’ll base decisions on metrics and have clear KPIs for all your plans.
• You have a collaborative mindset - you are excellent at working across functions, able to bring people together to achieve a common goal.
• You think ‘globally’ - you’re experienced supporting leaders and employees split across geographies and timezones.
• Creative problem solver - we need you to think creatively and be flexible in your outlook.
• You have experience of, or interest in, working in the ‘People’ space.

Some extra skills that would be great:

• You might have used Monday.com for project/programme/portfolio planning before.
• You might have a change management qualification in addition to your project/programme/portfolio management qualifications.
• You might have worked in a high growth, product or service led (ideally tech) company.

We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive. We’re proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences. Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.