Shipping and Projects Specialist

We’re working in partnership with Nucleus Financial to find a Project Co-ordinator to join the Adviser Business Readiness Team at Nucleus Financial on a 12-month FTC.In this role, you will manage key aspects of the day-to-day operations of platform implementation workstreams, ensuring the successful delivery of our re-platforming project on time and to the highest standards. You will oversee project tasks, monitor performance, and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to drive continuous improvements in platform delivery. Your primary focus will be supporting the Platform Implementation Project Manager in managing multiple project workstreams within the External Business Readiness area of the re-platforming initiative. This involves planning, executing, and coordinating various tasks to ensure the new platform is successfully implemented within set deadlines. Manage and lead workstreams and people within the Adviser Business Readiness (ABR) team for the External Business Readiness workstream of the new Platform project. Support or lead assigned project workstreams within ABR. Build and maintain strong relationships with the ABR Project Manager. Manage change, driving continuous improvement in processes, systems, and team performance. Coach and influence staff to deliver high-quality project support, ensuring regular status reporting and outputs. Oversee resource planning, including recruitment, training, and performance management. Provide weekly status updates to the Project Manager and Management. Collaborate across business areas and engage with key stakeholders to deliver project tasks. Help define and implement a repeatable re-platforming process. Your friends would describe you as the \”go-to\” person who has a deep understanding of Investment Platforms and the Financial Services industry. You are customer-focused and excel at building strong working relationships. With a passion for planning and delivering results, you thrive in environments where you can work flexibly with minimal direction. Experience in the financial services industry or related investment products, with a proven track record of managing internal and external stakeholders, and exposure to platform transformation projects. Strong people management skills, including leading or supporting a team, with excellent presentation abilities for both personal delivery and preparing materials for individuals or groups. Exceptional time management, productivity, and decision-making skills, along with strong influencing and negotiating abilities, and the capacity to work under pressure and meet deadlines efficiently. Proficiency in Microsoft Office , particularly Excel and PowerPoint . Familiarity with project management tools (e.g., JIRA ) is a bonus. Our purpose at Nucleus is to help make retirement more rewarding, with a vision to build the best retirement-focused platform in the UK. This short film gives you an insight into what it is like to work with us. Inclusion and diversity at Nucleus We really care about inclusion. For us this is not a box-ticking thing, it’s a commercial imperative. Find out more on our inclusion page. We offer a generous blend of benefits for the things that really matter to our people, including pension, bonus, enhanced parental leave, paid time off for emergencies, health and wellbeing initiatives and flexible working options.