SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER
WELLINGBOROUGH AND LONDON (HYBRID)
To meet our strategic growth plans, we need to ensure our processes and technology are scalable for the future. This is where you come in - overseeing all aspects of our more complex projects, ensuring everything runs smoothly and meets the defined objectives.
Ideally, you will work 2 days per week in our Wellingborough head office with the project team, and will attend the London office approximately once a month for updates with senior stakeholders.
Why join us?
We are a growing business committed to developing and being on the front line. Developing our people is a big part of that, and your career can grow as we do. Weatherbys has made huge strides in becoming more efficient and scalable but there is still plenty to do, so there is always something to challenge you.
Benefits include:
* 25 days' annual leave (rising to 28 days with length of service)
* Private medical insurance
* Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
* Income protection
* Pension
* Full benefits here: Employee Benefits
What You Will Do
* Oversee projects and workstreams, ensuring they are completed on time and within budget
* Develop and manage comprehensive technology implementation plans that are fully aligned with overall timelines.
* Facilitate and guide stakeholders, providing status updates on project milestones and dependencies
* Manage relationships with third-party technology vendors, ensuring timely delivery and quality of services from vendors
* Design and oversee the setup of technical environments, then manage and maintain these through the project
* Resource allocation and managing team performance to ensure resources are used efficiently.
* Project governance and reporting, including tracking actions and deliverables, following quality and control guidelines, and identifying and reporting on risks and issues.
What You Will Bring
* Significant experience successfully delivering projects within Financial Services
* Track record of managing and working with multiple, complex third parties
* Experience working with technical teams, understanding system change requirements and delivering these successfully to end users
* Experience in project risk management and mitigation
* Experience presenting and communicating with senior stakeholders including C-suite.
* Experience drafting and submitting budget proposals and business cases and recommending subsequent changes where necessary
* Strong leadership, diplomatic and motivational skills including the ability to lead up, across and down multiple business functions
* A qualification in project management covering waterfall and agile (e.g. Prince2, PMP, Scrum Master or recognised equivalent).
Who We Are
Weatherbys is one of the best regarded independent banking groups in the UK, winning Private Bank of the Year at the Spear's UK Wealth Management awards in both 2021, 2023 and 2024. As you would expect from a business with ambitious growth plans, we are continually evolving and looking to the future, but always put our clients at the heart of everything we do. Don't just take our word for it, find out more here: www.weatherbys.bank
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