Investment Project Manager - Pensions - Ftc

Role Scope & Responsibilities:

• Act as a key link between Investment strategy and its implementation and owning the end-to-end implementation delivery.
• Provide business-wide executional certainty over an existing and future programme of investment implementation by acting as the sole Project Manager (PM) and ensuring the right methodology is in place to monitor and guide progress.
• Maintain an overall master programme management plan across investment implementation, including key deliverables and timeframes, leveraging this master plan to track and oversee progress against delivery.

Project Management

• Where relevant, act as the direct PM for specific work packages where complex planning and execution is required, taking direct ownership for delivery.
• Run (alongside the COO) regular engagement calls including Executive level Steering Committees, regular Investment Team Programme Design Groups, and Working Groups.
• Maintain RAID logs, providing summary material for internal / Trustee forums as relevant; leverage this RAID log to proactively monitor risks, issues and dependencies, and where relevant implement mitigating activities.

Stakeholder Management

• Liaise with key stakeholders and work package owners, including across the investment team and external 3rd parties to drive delivery.
• Ensure effective escalation of programme blockers, including proactive management of actions required to unblock.
• Working closely with the Investment Operations team to bring together the overall view of the programme for relevant stakeholders.