Project Manager

Project Manager

About the role

Are you ready to drive meaningful change through expertly managed projects? As a Project Manager at NFU Mutual, you’ll take ownership of large-scale initiatives up to £5 million in budget delivering them from concept to completion. This role is pivotal to our strategic transformation, ensuring that business-critical projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest standards.

In this dynamic and influential role, you’ll manage one or more complex projects or programme workstreams through the full project lifecycle, from initial definition and detailed planning through to delivery, transition into business as usual and closure. Working closely with Sponsors, Business Leads and cross-functional delivery teams, you’ll ensure clarity of scope, ownership and responsibilities, and drive the successful delivery of agreed business outcomes.

You’ll take accountability for defining and agreeing project scope, deliverables and roles, ensuring alignment and shared understanding across all key stakeholders. You’ll lead robust project planning, tracking and reporting activities in line with NFU Mutual’s Change Framework, providing clear, data-led insight to support effective decision making. Building strong relationships with internal teams and third-party suppliers, you’ll foster a collaborative, one-team approach to delivery, encouraging constructive challenge and shared accountability.

You’ll proactively manage risks, issues and dependencies to protect project outcomes and business operations, while overseeing resource allocation and leading delivery teams to ensure work is delivered in the right way, at the right time and to the right standard. You’ll also support the development and ongoing review of business cases, ensuring benefits are clearly defined, tracked and realised, and that effective communication and governance structures are in place throughout the lifecycle of the change.

While this role operates under NFU Mutual’s hybrid working approach), there will be times where business needs; project milestones, key meetings or delivery activity require an increased presence in the office therefore flexibility will be required.

About you

You’ll be an experienced Change Project Manager, with a proven track record of delivering complex business and technology change within a portfolio environment. This role requires demonstrable experience working in a Change function (business or IT change), delivering back-end system, process, data or operational change rather than front-end or marketing-led initiatives.

You’ll bring:

Experience delivering change within financial services or other highly regulated environments is advantageous.

At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees.

We recognise that some candidates may experience barriers during the recruitment process. So, we encourage candidates to discuss any adjustments or accommodations they need to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process.

We\’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Race at Work and Women in Finance Charter signatory and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.

Benefits and Rewards

When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:

Working at NFU Mutual

We’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services companies. For over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us.

We pride ourselves on being “a great place to work” and our Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2025 award was not only awarded with Distinction but also named us as the first UK-based company to receive a Gallup Exceptional Workplace for ten years in a row. We are also the only Insurer to feature in the LinkedIn Top 15 Companies 2025 list of ‘Best midsize employers to grow your career in the UK’, the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK List 2023 and 2024, and were recognised as a certified UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023, 2024 and 2025.

We offer a supportive culture where we empower and inspire our people to perform, offer them opportunities to grow, and recognise and reward their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable, so we are successful now and in the future.