Job Summary
Senior Project Manager - Adviser Business.
Reports to the Programme Management team and leads a cross functional team of change professionals to sustain and transform the end to end Adviser business within Aberdeen's Adviser platform.
Key Responsibilities
* Responsibility for a large project, workstream(s) or release within a programme, ensuring delivery is to time, budget and quality.
* Applies and champions the appropriate project management discipline, i.e. planning, resourcing, scheduling, monitoring, reporting and risk, assumption, issue and dependency management.
* Establishes an effective project organisation structure.
* Manages development and expenditure budget within their workstreams / projects.
* Manages relationships with stakeholders (including executive stakeholders) and key customers to ensure delivery meets requirements.
* Sets and manages the quality of deliverables for projects, ensuring appropriate standards are applied.
* Ensures the delivered workstream / project meets the needs of the business as specified in the original requirements and that agreed quality standards have been met.
* Reports and presents on workstream / project status to the Programme, Steering Committee, stakeholders and senior management as required.
Essential Qualifications
* Track record of large scale project delivery in Financial Services - ideally in Wealth Management, Investments or Pensions.
* Third party delivery experience - extensive experience delivering through third party partnerships.
* Strong project governance and budget management, with accountability for maintaining financial control, governance discipline and transparent reporting to senior stakeholders.
* Strong dependency management across multiple workstreams.
Desirable Qualifications
* Experience managing complex interdependent deliveries across multiple workstreams and vendors.
* Experience delivering both technical and business change.
* Commercial awareness and ability to apply a commercial lens to discussions and decisions.
* Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience presenting at a senior level and handling challenging conversations with senior stakeholders.
* Problem solving ability to understand challenges faced by the team and help them find resolution.
* Experience delivering through change steering committees.
* Relevant Project / Programme / Portfolio / PMO Management qualification(s) - e.g. PRINCE2.
Benefits
* 40 days' annual leave.
* 16% employer pension contribution.
* Discretionary performance based bonus (where applicable).
* Private healthcare.
* Flexible benefits - gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer.
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