Address Fixed Term Contract Duration - 12 Months
Technology department brings technology-enabled innovation to market by developing relevant, integrated and optimised solutions that are scalable, commercially viable and deliver long-term value aligned to the business strategy.
Working as a strategic partner to the business our mission is to build informed and robust future-orientated technology and skills capabilities that create the right environment for our people and business to prosper with a focus on reducing complexity and excelling in the execution of our strategy.
What the Hiring Manager says
Technology department is Quilter Group’s primary engine for the delivery of business and technology change including the provision of robust infrastructure and IT service operations that everyone can depend upon. Technology department brings technology-enabled innovation to market by developing relevant, integrated and optimised solutions that are scalable, commercially viable and deliver long-term value aligned to the business strategy.
Working as a strategic partner to the business our mission is to build informed and robust future-orientated technology and skills capabilities that create the right environment for our people and business to prosper with a focus on reducing complexity and excelling in the execution of our strategy.
About the Role
Level: 4
Department: Portfolio Delivery Team
Location: Southampton
Contract type: Fixed Term Contract
To ensure the delivery of multi sized Technical Projects to meet specific business plan objectives. Leading a team of professionals and third parties and working in partnership with the business to deliver to agreed scope, to time, cost, quality, risk appetite and budget.
Key Responsibilities and Scope of role:
- Shape Technical Projects to ensure budgets and resourcing align to business case expectations.
- Manage sourcing and recruitment of project delivery resources to complement existing technical teams.
- When required, manage and guide a small team of Project Managers to deliver a workstream of activities.
- Lead Technical Projects working in close partnership with key stakeholders to ensure delivery in line with agreed milestones, priorities and to set quality standards and to budget.
- Understand and clearly document the business objectives and critical success factors for the project.
- Define the project organisation structure and approach, with consideration for the dependencies and constraints and in line with the agreed governance process, reporting and planning standards.
- Build strong relationships with all stakeholders, through communication and engagement to become a trusted partner; resolving issues, searching for solutions and understanding opportunities to ensure delivery.
- Collaborate with internal technical teams, third parties, business SME’s to ensure they work effectively, utilising knowledge, skills, resource and experience that are available.
- Ensure the project and work stream plans are produced, actively maintained and contain the appropriate detail.
- Manage the project from inception to delivery, with responsibility for day-to-day delivery on time, on budget and to schedule through effective leadership, direction, consultation and facilitation.
- Acute awareness and management of project risks and issues ensuring that they are impact-assessed mitigated and escalated where appropriate.
- Manage project reviews and checkpoints to the agreed standards.
- Proactively seek opportunities to share knowledge and experience to enhance the capabilities/processes within the team and the wider Group Technology Solutions team.
- Act as an ambassador for Technology, role modelling our core values and leading by example.
- Take responsibility for personal development ensuring that a personal development plan is maintained.
About You
Applications from people with diverse backgrounds enables our inclusive organisation to thrive. If you feel you don't match our job description exactly, why not take a chance on yourself and apply? You could be exactly what this role needs.
Knowledge, Skills & Experience:
Experience of leading and guiding Technical Project Managers.
Proven track record of delivering technical change covering implementation of new services, IT transformation, remediation, integration or migrations.
Delivery using 3rd parties across multiple geographies and business units.
Experience working with technical SMEs specialising in applications and infrastructure; servers, networks, data, storage, middleware and telephony.
Knowledge of frameworks such as ITIL and the Development Lifecycle.
In-depth knowledge and demonstrable application of different project delivery methodologies including Agile.
Strong working knowledge of Jira or DevOps boards would be an advantage.
Excellent communication, stakeholder management and influencing skills demonstrating the ability to translate technical and complex challenges into simple, clear updates, issues and/or risks for senior stakeholders.
Our purpose is to help the generations today and tomorrow to prosper. That means we must guide people through the complexity of planning for their future, with the right financial advice and investment solutions, so that they can have more secure financial futures.
In this ever-changing world, we see that our role in society has never been more meaningful, and we are committed to using our expertise and care to guide our customers through these challenging and unprecedented times.
Our impressive talents and capabilities set us apart, but our unwavering commitment to our customers is what defines us. We truly believe that we have all the ingredients to be the very best in our industry, and we want great people with the care and creativity that we need, to help us get there.
We are passionate about building an inclusive culture where everyone’s contribution is valued, and our people can thrive. No matter what your role is or where you sit, your voice will matter. We hope you like what you hear and are interested in learning more about joining us.
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Core Benefits
Holiday: 26 days
Quilter Incentive Scheme: All employees are eligible to participate in our incentive scheme, based on the company's performance and their contribution to it
Pension Scheme: 10% non-contributory company pension scheme that can be boosted through personal contributions
Benefit Allowance: A cash benefit allowance is payable in lieu of some of our core benefits.
In addition to our core benefits we offer a range of flexible benefits that you can choose from and pay for conveniently via a salary deduction.
