Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Head Resourcing is delighted to partner with a leading financial services company in Scotland, seeking an experienced and dedicated individual to join their Operations team as a Senior Project Manager. This pivotal role involves ensuring successful delivery of agreed business outcomes and orchestrating collaborative efforts across the business to plan, de-risk, and execute change initiatives. This role with focus on Data Protection within the organisation.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the successful delivery of agreed business outcomes by collaborating with stakeholders across the business, planning, de-risking, and managing day-to-day project activities.
• Offer guidance on change policies and processes to colleagues, oversee project management staff, and collaborate with departmental leaders in developing projects and programs.
• Plan project work scope, resource allocation, and timelines in coordination with department leaders and the Executive, providing transparent updates on expected deliverables.
• Manage project risks by working with stakeholders, documenting and addressing them using comprehensive methods, and ensuring documented action plans are followed and updated transparently.
• Ensure alignment of all activities with change policies, procedures, and standards, fostering a culture of learning from gaps and supporting colleague development.
• Motivate project teams by establishing clear goals, ensuring role clarity, and efficient stakeholder management throughout the change lifecycle, celebrating successes and learning from challenges.
• Coordinate cross-functional project work, maintaining transparent communication, and ensuring alignment with project objectives while providing regular updates on project status and issues.
• Monitor project timelines and budgets, document delivery milestones and financial plans, track progress, and address issues promptly.
• Manage changes to the project by assessing risks to expected outcomes, costs, or schedules, discussing mitigations with relevant stakeholders, and implementing necessary change controls.
• Ensure successful delivery of project outcomes and benefits by collaborating with business and project stakeholders, focusing on benefit optimization and post-implementation activities, and reporting on outcomes and benefits delivery in meetings.

Qualifications and Skills:

• 5+ years\’ experience as a Project Manager or Senior Project Manager in a fast-paced, technology-driven financial services environment, preferably with Investment and Pensions experience.
• Proven track record of delivering customer service and customer-facing digital solutions through in-house and third-party IT capabilities.
• Experience in both waterfall and agile methodologies, with a proactive mindset to determine the best approach.
• Strong leadership skills, ability to influence and drive improvement initiatives across business stakeholders, change, and IT teams.
• Exceptional collaboration, relationship development, and management skills, coupled with effective communication abilities for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Attention to detail, analytical ability to propose and assess solutions, and proficient use of MS applications including SharePoint, Project, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio.
• Self-motivated, with strong initiative, ability to work under pressure with minimal supervision, and passion for developing others in project and program management.
• Detailed experience in project initiation, planning, governance, reporting, change management, and developing enterprise change capabilities.

Salary:

• Up to £75k depending on experience

Benefits:

• Pension
• Healthcare
• Holidays 25 days + 8 public (Increasing each year)

This is a Hybrid role and will require you to attend the office in Glasgow city centre 2 days per week.

If this sounds like you, we would like to hear from you.