Senior Project Manager

Job Title: Senior Project Manager

Location: Fleet, with 2 days home working a week once probation has been passed

Salary: £65,000 – £85,000, depending on experience

Working hours: 35 hours. Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm

Benefits:

• 11% non-contributory pension scheme from day 1 of employment
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Annual leave buying scheme
• Private medical insurance
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Free annual flu jabs
• 4x life assurance
• 75% income protection
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay and leave
• Free eyecare vouchers
• 2 days paid volunteering days per year
• Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme

About the role of Senior Project Manager

Our client is a Specialist Mortgage Lender who has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Manager to join their IT Department. The successful candidate will have 1 direct report and will support the end-to-end delivery of projects including systems implementation, regulatory changes and operational process change. There may be the expectations to work non-typical office hours to support software upgrades and releases.

Responsibilities for the position of Senior Project Manager

• Delivery across the full Project Lifecycle
• Initiating projects; taking the initial sponsor mandate and setting up the requisite governance
• Managing resource, time and people to ensure all tasks are agreed up front and are completed according to the project plan
• Looking after the full project portfolio and reporting
• Undertaking Business Analysis – eliciting business requirements from a stakeholder to understand what the issue is
• Clearly summarising project information in a succinct manner and presenting effectively to the project stakeholders
• Liaise effectively with all project stakeholders, including senior stakeholders
• Managing a portfolio of projects simultaneously, whilst continuing to drive all projects forward to delivery
• Reporting to the Programme Director and working collaboratively with the Project team
• Lead, coach and develop team members to ensure competence and help them achieve their objectives and potential.
• Identify and prioritise training needs to meet business requirements.

Experience required for the position of Senior Project Manager

• Line management experience is preferred, but not essential
• Must have an understanding and/or experience of working on technical IT and Cyber Security projects
• Experience of working with a mortgage lender is desired
• Experience working with 3rd party systems providers
• 5+ years of experience as a Project Manager
• Prince 2, APM or Agile PM qualifications would be desired but not essential
• Experience in using systems such as MS Office, MS Projects and JIRA
• Familiarity with UK Financial Services is desirable

For more information regarding the role of Senior Project Manager please contact us

Stellar Select is acting as an employment agency and is a corporate member of the REC

Due to a high volume of applications, we will only contact you if your application has been successful. We aim to contact all successful contacts within two business days