Project Manager
Job Description
The Project Manager will be an integral member of the delivery team, tasked with supporting the implementation of a new administration platform and future scheme migrations. This role will emphasise planning and coordinating delivery across business, vendor, and testing teams. Collaboration with the Business Analyst team, internal stakeholders, and a third party vendor is crucial to ensure that the agreed scope, milestones, and deliverables are achieved, all the way to readiness for go live.
Responsibilities
1. Own day-to-day delivery of project workstreams, ensuring activities progress in line with agreed plans and timelines.
2. Produce and maintain delivery plans, milestones, and dependency maps covering analysis, build, test, and readiness activities.
3. Coordinate activities between Business Analysts, SMEs, the third party vendor, and internal test teams to ensure smooth hand-offs and clear ownership.
4. Track progress against plan, manage risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies, and escalate where required.
5. Facilitate regular delivery checkpoints such as stand ups, planning sessions, and status updates to maintain momentum and visibility.
6. Support backlog delivery by working with BAs and the vendor to ensure priorities are understood and development aligns with agreed scope and timelines.
7. Work with testing and business teams to support test planning, defect triage, and readiness for deployment.
8. Contribute to go live planning, including cutover activities, business readiness checks, and post-implementation support planning.
9. Provide clear and upfront delivery reporting to stakeholders, highlighting progress, risks, and key decisions required.
Essential Skills
10. Experience in pensions is essential
11. Experience delivering change within financial services, ideally involving third party vendors or platform implementations.
12. Proven ability to manage delivery plans, dependencies, and risks in a structured and pragmatic way.
13. Strong communication skills, with Experience coordinating across business teams, technical teams, and external suppliers.
14. Comfortable working in a fast-paced delivery environment with multiple moving parts and competing priorities.
Work Environment
The role is set in a dynamic, fast-paced environment where multiple projects and priorities are managed concurrently. You will collaborate with various teams, including technical, business, and external vendors. The focus is on maintaining a high level of communication and coordination to ensure successful project delivery.
Model: Hybrid 50% Onsite in Edinburgh
Location
Edinburgh, UK
Rate/Salary
- GBP Daily
Trading as TEKsystems. Allegis Group Limited, Maxis 2, Western Road, Bracknell, RG12 1RT, United Kingdom. No. 2876353. Allegis Group Limited operates as an Employment Business and Employment Agency as set out in the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003. TEKsystems is a company within the Allegis Group network of companies (collectively referred to as "Allegis Group"). Aerotek, Aston Carter, EASi, Talentis Solutions, TEKsystems, Stamford Consultants and The Stamford Group are Allegis Group brands.