About the role

  • Senior Project Manager overseeing complex project delivery for Financial Ombudsman Service. Leading teams for high-risk projects and ensuring timely outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Lead project planning, scheduling, controlling and reporting activities for strategic, high impact, high risk projects.
  • Work with sponsors, finance, the PMO and other key stakeholders to develop, gain approval and monitor compelling business cases for your projects.
  • Lead projects from end to end, ensuring they are clearly scoped, well governed and delivered on time, to budget and to quality.
  • Bring together cross functional teams, proactively manage risks, issues and dependencies, and maintain strong oversight of costs and resources.
  • Provide clear, accurate reporting on progress and performance, and use your experience to drive continuous improvement and support the development of junior members of the team.

Requirements

  • Demonstrable experience of delivering complex, high-risk projects across people, process and technology.
  • Extensive experience of applying project management disciplines in a pragmatic and flexible way, including detailed project planning, risk and issue management and maintaining business cases.
  • Proven ability to lead and motivate cross-functional project teams.
  • Demonstrable experience of effectively managing third party suppliers and delivery partners to ensure contractual performance, quality outcomes and value for money.
  • Strong communication and influencing skills with the ability to engage senior stakeholders, secure decisions and clear present complex information in a clear and simple way.
  • Experience managing multiple concurrent projects with competing priorities.
  • A recognised project management qualification such as PRINCE2, MSP, Agile PM, APM or equivalent alongside practical experience of applying these frameworks.

Benefits

  • Health plan
  • Gym memberships
  • Mental health support
  • 25 days holiday entitlement, with the option to buy extra or sell days
  • Generous pension
  • Various Family Friendly Policies, including enhanced maternity pay, carers and dependants leave
  • Employer provided benefits such as Private medical insurance, virtual GP, Critical illness cover, Life assurance cover, to name a few
  • Choice of voluntary benefits including Technology scheme, Cycle to work scheme, Will-writing service amongst others
  • Gym membership discounts, and a fully equipped on-site gym open 24/7 in London only

Job title

Senior Project Manager

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

£59,450 - £72,262 per year

Degree requirement

Professional Certificate

Location requirements

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