The Value of Active Minds
About Jupiter
Jupiter is one of the UK’s leading investment management companies with over 500 employees and £51.3 billion worth of assets under management (as at 30th June 2024).
Jupiter provides investment services to individual and institutional investors through mutual funds (UK unit trusts, Luxembourg SICAVs and Dublin OEICs), separately managed accounts and sub-advised funds. Jupiter has experienced a period of international growth with offices open in EMEA and APAC.
The majority of our employees are based in our London office located just minutes from Victoria station which provides stair-free access from both the Underground’s Victoria line and National Rail platforms, as well as limited road crossings to the Jupiter office. Our London office was designed to encourage employees to live active, healthy lives with floor-to-ceiling windows that allow for greater natural light and the benefit of a private balcony, table tennis room, cycle storage and on-site shower and locker facilities.
We offer our UK employees a 3:2 hybrid working arrangement where Tuesdays, Thursdays and a third day of your choice are worked from the office. The other two days may be worked from home.
Background
This is an exciting time to join the Change team at Jupiter. The Strategy & Transformation Department has recently been created to support Jupiter in delivering its wider business strategy and transformational initiatives. The Change Team, (which was previously part of Technology), is part of this function, and sits alongside the Corporate Development function, reporting to the Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer.
The growth of the Change team, and the creation of this Project Manager role, reflects the increased size and scale of Jupiter’s change appetite as we embark on a multi-year transformational change agenda that will deliver strategic initiatives across the entire firm.
This role offers high exposure and requires close collaboration with senior stakeholders across the business. It will require building strong collaborative and cross-functional relationships across many areas of the firm.
Key Responsibilities
1. Project Manage all aspects of the end-to-end project delivery.
2. Coordinate requirement gathering and propose a clear definition of the scope and business value of your project.
3. Identify logical grouping, sequencing, and delivery approach of key milestones.
4. Quantify the business benefit/rationale of your project and design a metric(s) to report the delivery value of the project throughout its duration.
5. Identify operational BAU impacts of your project, and propose solutions on how these will be managed post-delivery.
6. Maintain up to date transparent tracking of your project, including risk/issue information.
7. Design roadmaps and implementation plans including organisational cross dependencies.
8. Manage/chair/lead the Steering/Working/Project groups/committees and/or projects.
9. Be ready to quickly provide succinct options and recommendations to senior stakeholders when delivery risks arise.
10. Identify and implement potential solutions, systems, tools, processes, and frameworks to improve the ongoing optimisation of the Change Team’s Operating model.
11. Robustly manage project financials including initial estimate, budgets, and forecasts.
12. Be aware of the industry and regulatory landscape.
13. Continually improve how we work, consider the lessons of the last project.
Proactively manage strong working relationships to enable nimble delivery of projects
1. Build strong partnerships between business functions and the Change team.
2. Manage external suppliers/vendors who are engaged on your project.
3. Partner closely with the Technical Delivery Team to identify the technical requirements of your project.
4. Work closely with your Change team colleagues, share best practices.
5. Identify all relevant stakeholders within the remit of your project.
6. Form close collaboration with your project sponsor.
7. Build close relationships with the SMEs and working group members.
8. Take a pragmatic risk-based approach to the project artefacts.
Desired Skills / Experience
1. Familiarity with the Asset Management industry.
2. Experience in delivering large scale programs of work.
3. Experience in project initiation including business case definition.
4. Experience in developing complex cross functional road maps and implementation plans.
5. Ability to multi-task and deliver more than one initiative at a time.
6. Previous Business Analysis experience.
7. Experience of working to inflexible and regulatory timeframes.
8. Fluency in core technology and data concepts.
9. Knowledge of regulatory landscape.
10. Knowledge of programming languages is a plus.
11. A commitment to become cognizant of Jupiter’s technical architecture.
12. Strong understanding of equity, fixed income, and alternative investments.
13. Experience of a consultancy background is a plus.
Personal Skills and Qualities:
1. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
2. Results-orientated.
3. Partnership focused.
4. Leadership.
5. Resilient.
6. Organised.
7. Persuasive.
8. Perceptive.
9. Team player.
10. Technology proficient.
Additional Role Details
This role is subject to the Conduct Rules set by the FCA.
Don’t meet every requirement? At Jupiter we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you are interested in this role, but don’t think your experience aligns perfectly with every listed requirement in the job description, we would encourage you to apply. You may be the right person for this role.
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