Project Manager in Bolton

The Project Manager in Change Management plays a pivotal role in driving the successful delivery of transformation initiatives across the organisation. This role is responsible for planning, coordinating and overseeing change projects to ensure they are executed effectively, on time and within budget while minimising disruption to business operations. Acting as the link between senior leadership, stakeholders and project teams, the Project Manager ensures that change objectives are clearly defined, risks are managed and outcomes are aligned with strategic goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as Project Manager on a variety of larger, complex and technical change initiatives.
• Define project scope, objectives and success criteria in collaboration with sponsors and stakeholders.
• Provide effective oversight of project plans, ensuring deliverables are achieved on time, within budget and to agreed quality standards.
• Proactively manage risks, issues and dependencies using RAID log, ensuring timely resolution and escalation where required.
• Maintain and publish project tracking tools, dashboards and status reports to provide transparency of progress.
• Communicate project activities, milestones and outcomes clearly to the wider business, tailoring messaging to different audiences.
• Organise and lead internal and external project meetings, ensuring actions are captured and followed through.
• Build and maintain strong professional relationships with key stakeholders, including senior leadership, external partners and vendors.
• Ensure effective resource planning and allocation to support project delivery.
• Manage projects in line with the organisation's project methodology, ensuring consistency and compliance with governance standards.
• Act as an escalation point for project-related issues, facilitating resolution and maintaining stakeholder confidence.
• Liaise with Finance for cost tracking and reporting, ensuring budgetary control and financial accountability.
• Complete project administration and reporting to a high standard, meeting agreed SLAs and governance requirements.
• Contribute to continuous improvement by identifying lessons learned and embedding best practices into future projects.

Secondary Responsibilities

• Other ad-hoc tasks as and when required.
• Escalation of issues to management in a timely manner.

Knowledge, Skills & Qualifications

Essential Skills

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with an informed and evidence-based approach.
• Experience of writing requirements and producing and owning project documents.
• Ability to clearly and accurately document details for tasks and projects.
• Highly organised, self-motivated with excellent attention to detail.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint).
• Strong understanding of business processes and IT systems.

Beneficial Skills

• Good knowledge of Microsoft Project and Visio.

Essential Qualifications

• A degree or relevant qualifications or experience.

Beneficial Qualifications

• Completed or working towards Investment Operations Certificate (IOC) or prepared to undertake this qualification on joining.

Essential Experience

• 1 year+ experience of working in a similar role.

Beneficial Experience

• Experience with industry recognised business improvement methodology/tools.

Essential Personal Qualities

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to talk and present to a wide range of audiences.
• The ability to work under pressure on multiple projects and tasks within assigned timeframes.
• The ability to build and maintain strong on-going working relationships with all project stakeholders.
• An enthusiasm to deliver business improvement with a "can do" attitude.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Great team player.
• Good listener.

Other Entitlements

• Competitive salary with annual salary reviews.
• 9% non-contributory pension.
• Annual discretionary bonus scheme.
• Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP).
• Private Healthcare Scheme with Dental and Optical Care.
• Death in Service at 5x Annual Salary.
• 35 Hour working week.
• Training for IOC and other relevant qualifications.
• Study Leave.
• Cycle2Work Scheme.
• Eye Test Reimbursement.
• Your Birthday off.
• 13 weeks full paid maternity leave.
• 2 weeks full paid paternity leave.