Senior Project Manager — Agile Transformation Lead

Join us at a pivotal moment of transformation. We’re moving from traditional Waterfall to Agile ways of working—and we need a Senior Project Manager who knows how to make that journey successful. You’ll bring proven experience guiding organisations through this shift, balancing strong governance with the flexibility Agile demands. From quarterly PI planning to embedding new practices, you’ll be the driving force that keeps delivery on track while enabling change to stick.

If you thrive on making things happen and have the expertise to lead teams through transition with confidence and clarity, we want to hear from you. Ready to lead transformation? Submit your CV and a covering letter telling us how you’ve helped organisations evolve and deliver results.

The Role

Reporting to the Head of Change Delivery, you'll deliver multiple projects or large singular projects with multiple workstreams, collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams to develop business cases and manage project initiation processes, ensuring 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, ensure 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.
• Ensure SMEs are engaged 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, collaborating with stakeholders, SMEs and project teams ensuring effective decision making.
• Ensure effective business change, influencing via change champions; supporting impact assessments and readiness activities and providing visibility of project progress.
• Provide role modelling and leadership behaviours.
• Promote training, working with direct reports to ensure requirements are actioned.

Who we are looking for

You’ll hold a relevant qualification (Prince2 or PMP) and significant experience of large transformation projects. You’re a natural communicator, able to manage multiple stakeholders in group and one-to-one settings in a mainly remote environment.

You’ll have:

• Experience of the whole project life cycle encompassing both technology and business change projects.
• Working experience in an Agile environment.
• 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're committed to providing reasonable adjustments or accommodations for applicants, so if you need support during the recruitment process, please let us know on the application form or send an email to recruitment@pcl.co.uk.

If you’re made an offer of employment you’ll 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.

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.