Senior Project Manager in Leatherhead

Why work for us? Premium Credit is the leading provider of insurance premium finance and a range of annually charged services, including tax, regulatory and accountancy fees, sports season tickets, memberships and school fees in the UK and Ireland. We are a multi award winning business lending more than £4.5 billion to over 2.5 million customers through a network of almost three thousand partners - and growing. Recently certified as a Great Place to Work in the UK and Ireland, we are a successful business with a Trustpilot rating of 4.5, a Net Promoter Score of +78, a Glassdoor rating of 4.2 and a Silver Sustainability medal.

You will be joining the team at the heart of business and technology change, overseeing all aspects of large-scale project delivery.

Competitive salary, a workplace pension scheme, hybrid working, with collaborative days in our Leatherhead office, 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), with options to purchase and sell up to 5 days holiday per year (pro rata), private health and dental cover, support and investment in your personal development, 24/7 access to Employee Assistance Programme and Mental Health First Aiders.

The Role: This is an exciting time of growth for us, and we are hiring a Senior Project Manager to help us continue this success. This is a great opportunity to develop a varied and rewarding career with a company that invests in, recognises and rewards its people. Reporting to the Head of Change Delivery, you will manage multiple projects or large singular projects with multiple workstreams. You will develop business cases and manage the project initiation process, collaborating with cross disciplinary teams to support requirements gathering, create and maintain detailed project plans and ensure that activities are planned, owned and executed to drive overall project delivery.

You will:

• Participate in broader programme management processes, managing cross-workstream dependencies, priorities and risks.
• Understand the technical design process, ensuring that functional and non-functional requirements are understood and delivered against.
• Manage and maintain the RAID register, supporting mitigating actions for risks and issues.
• Manage changes to key project parameters, ensuring the right decisions are made, expectations managed and clear communication to all parties.
• Ensure SMEs are engaged and involved throughout, fulfilling their agreed accountabilities.
• Create and maintain project budgets, tracking actual spend and providing realistic forecasts, ensuring that project benefits reflect the solution scope.
• Maintain relationships with key stakeholders, owning communications and ensuring their buy-in.
• Facilitate workshops, working collaboratively with stakeholders, SMEs and project teams to ensure effective decision making.
• Ensure effective business change, communicating and influencing via change champions; supporting change impact assessments and readiness activities and providing visibility of project progress.
• Provide role modelling and leadership behaviours.
• Promote training and work with direct reports to ensure requirements are actioned.

Who we are looking for: To be successful as our Project Manager you will hold a relevant qualification (Prince2 or PMP) and have significant experience in large transformation projects against documented and audited methodologies covering the full life cycle. You are a natural communicator, able to manage multiple stakeholders in group and one-to-one settings in a mainly remote environment.

You will have:

• Experience of the whole project life cycle encompassing both technology and business change projects with multiple methodologies including waterfall, hybrid and agile.
• Experience of optimising processes/outcomes working with outsourced and off-shored globally distributed technology delivery teams.
• Skilled in budgeting and resource allocations.
• Experience of managing IT Partner and supplier services.
• In-depth knowledge and experience of MS Project (Scheduling) and Office tools.
• Experience within the financial services sector especially insurance, credit/loan provision and payments.

We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments or accommodations for applicants, so if you need assistance or support during the recruitment process, please let us know on the application form or by sending an email to recruitment@pcl.co.uk.

If you are made an offer of employment you will be required to prove your eligibility to work in the UK before you start work. You must reside in the UK from the start date of this role; unfortunately, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time.

To ensure you can work from home efficiently you will be asked to provide your internet speed at the application stage.

Premium Credit are an equal opportunities employer with a strong and passionate commitment to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion in the workplace. We welcome applications from all sections of the community and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be. We are open to part-time working and job share.

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All postholders will be subject to appropriate pre-employment vetting procedures and a satisfactory Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check prior to appointment.

Please note, we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we identify a number of suitable candidates. All applicants will be advised if the vacancy closes early.

We are not engaging agency support for this role and respectfully ask that agencies do not submit unsolicited candidate details to Premium Credit Limited in relation to this role.