Junior Project Manager in London

About Marex

Marex Group plc (NASDAQ: MRX) is a diversified global financial services platform providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients across energy, commodities and financial markets. The group provides comprehensive breadth and depth of coverage across four core services: clearing, agency and execution, market making, and hedging and investment solutions. It has a leading franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, with access to 60 exchanges. The group provides access to the world’s major commodity markets, covering a broad range of clients that include some of the largest commodity producers, consumers and traders, banks, hedge funds and asset managers. With more than 40 offices worldwide, the group has over 3,000 employees across Europe, Asia and the Americas.

Role Summary

The Junior Project Manager supports the successful implementation of business change projects across the Clearing business. The role supports the coordination of project implementation from start to finish – and acts as the single point of coordination for smaller projects and defined workstreams – partnering with the business throughout to ensure sustainable handover to business-as-usual (BAU) at project close. The Junior Project Manager is a hands-on organiser and doer, who is both:

• An organiser, who helps ensure there is a plan, that it is deliverable, and that it gets done to expected timescales;
• A practical facilitator, who helps make change happen and make change stick - who partners with people to adapt their everyday work.

Responsibilities

As a Junior Project Manager you will be asked to support one or multiple projects at a time, as allocated by the Change Management Office, working with the guidance of senior project managers and taking end-to-end ownership of smaller projects and workstreams. For each allocated project:

• Project Manage delivery to achieve completion as quickly and effectively as possible, with accountability to:
• Develop the project plan – identify, scope and schedule project deliverables
• Drive progress to plan (time, cost and quality) through active monitoring, adjustment, communication and escalation:
• Run status reviews and working groups / steering groups as required;
• Control changes to the plan;
• Manage dependencies, risks, costs and resources;
• Identify and resolve issues, including by escalating issues to the right people and tracking follow-up;
• Act as the central communication point for stakeholders, identifying who needs to know what, when and making this happen.
• Drive actions to adapt the business so it sustains new ways of working post project go-live:
• Ensure the project’s required implementation “end state” is defined;
• Identify what business changes will be required to reach this “end state”, including people-related factors like buy-in and capabilities;
• Manage delivery of these changes to realise the “end state”– for example, broker relationships, implement new processes/technology, run trials/prototypes, run training, etc.
• Support the Business Manager to run reporting and manage resources across a portfolio of change projects, by providing:
• Project data / information as required
• Capacity estimates / data
• As required: Build and share knowledge of project management, change management and implementation, for example by:
• Transferring knowledge, templates and lessons learned as part of closing down each allocated project at completion.

Marex Responsibilities include:

• Ensuring compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under the FCA, NFA, AMF, AFM, MAS or any other applicable regulatory body
• Adhere to the operational risk framework for your role ensuring that all regulatory or company determined parameters are complied with.
• Role model for demonstrating highest level standards of integrity and conduct and reflecting Company Values.
• At all times complying with the FCA’s Code of Conduct & Marex’s Code of Conduct
• To ensure that you are fully aware of and adhere to internal policies that relate to you, your role or any other activities for which you have any level of responsibility
• To report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/ or your supervisor as required
• To escalate risk events immediately
• To provide input to risk management processes, as required.

Skills and Experience:

• Preferably degree educated or with equivalent experience, with a genuine interest in project and change management
• Strong written and verbal communicator, adept at relationship-building
• Proactive problem-solver who is tenacious at chasing down actions and resolutions to completion
• Desirable - Professional qualifications in project management and/or change management from a recognised body such as APMG, PRINCE2, etc. – or actively studying towards one
• Desirable – an awareness of project management methodologies such as waterfall and Agile
• Desirable – an awareness of change management theory and practice
• Desirable – knowledge of financial services, ideally clearing, exchange-traded derivatives or post-trade services
• Some prior experience (circa 1–2 years, which may include internships, placements or graduate rotations) in a project, PMO, operations or clearing environment, with a demonstrable project mindset
• Experience supporting business change projects involving people, process and/or technology changes
• Desirable – experience of implementing new products / new business projects, especially in financial services
• Strong Microsoft Office skills (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) and the ability to produce clear, high-quality project documentation and reporting
• Desirable – experience working in a regulated environment and an awareness of the risk and compliance requirements associated with this.

Competencies

• A collaborative team player, approachable, self-sufficient and influences a positive work environment
• Demonstrates curiosity and a genuine willingness to learn
• Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment
• Takes ownership of tasks and is keen to build responsibility in a fast-paced and high-volume environment
• Builds relationships well, works effectively across teams and communicates confidently with stakeholders at all levels
• Well organised with strong attention to detail, able to manage multiple priorities and deadlines

Conduct Rules

You must:

• Act with integrity
• Act with due skill, care and diligence
• Be open and cooperative with the FCA, the PRA and other regulators
• Pay due regard to the interests of customers and treat them fairly
• Observe proper standard of market conduct
• Act to deliver good outcomes for retail customers

Company Values

Acting as a role model for the values of the Company:

• Be collaborative - by working together across the organisation, we foster teamwork, can better respond to challenges and successfully deliver for our clients
• Act with integrity - we pride ourselves on our honesty and high ethical standards. We apply these values when working with all our clients, colleagues and other stakeholders
• Be adaptable and entrepreneurial - we embrace change as markets evolve to constantly increase our efficiency and create innovative solutions for our clients. We are interested in the world around us and inquisitive about understanding the challenges and opportunities our clients face.
• Be respectful - how we treat each other, and our clients says everything about who we are. We always act respectfully and treat people fairly in everything we do.
• Nurture talent - we aim to grow our own talent and make Marex the place ambitious, hardworking and talented people choose to build their career. This means giving and taking stretch opportunities, taking risks, and committing to career development and support – for ourselves and our teams.

Marex is fully committed to being an inclusive employer and providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all. We will provide reasonable adjustments to remove any disadvantage to you being considered for this role. We value the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the company. We welcome applications from candidates returning to the workforce. Also, Marex is committed to avoiding circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or would like us to do anything differently to help you, please include it in your application.