Job Title: Senior Project Manager - Migrations
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Alderley Edge or Edinburgh
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
This is a unique opportunity to join Royal London at the start of building a dedicated capability to lead and deliver migration projects across the organisation. We are looking for an exceptional individual who has delivered multiple migration projects, ideally within a Life and Pensions environment, and would relish the chance to use their experience to help shape how we do things here.
You will strive to ensure business outcomes are clearly understood and associated solutions are delivered to enable the business to realise benefits on time, within budget, and to agreed quality standards.
You will take overall responsibility for planning and leading the delivery of the entire change lifecycle for projects covering both Business and Technical driven migrations, creating a reusable strategy and approach.
About the role
1. Lead end-to-end project management for migration projects within the organization.
2. Develop and implement comprehensive migration plans, including migration strategy, scope definition, resource allocation, and documentation.
3. Collaborate with technical teams to ensure seamless integration and minimal disruption to business operations during migrations.
4. Conduct risk assessments and develop mitigation strategies to address potential challenges and issues that may arise during migrations.
5. Monitor and track project progress, identify deviations from plan, and take appropriate corrective actions to keep projects on track.
6. Coordinate with key stakeholders to ensure their requirements are included in migration plans and communicated effectively to project teams.
7. Manage project budgets, forecasts, and financial reporting to ensure projects are delivered within financial constraints.
8. Develop a migration practice including a toolset with templates, policies, tools, and partnerships to expand and mature capabilities for the organization.
About you
1. Experience leading complex migration projects with cross-functional teams across multiple parties.
2. Highly competent in the use of ETL or ELT migration tools and managing data translation and loading via staging areas.
3. Ability to translate complex data requirements to a business audience for clarity.
4. Proven ability to work in ambiguous environments and collaborate across multiple areas to achieve objectives.
5. Interpersonal skills to influence change, facilitate, and enhance performance within a cross-functional environment.
6. Ability to develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations to various audiences.
7. Develop and maintain trusted relationships with project stakeholders and sponsors.
About Royal London
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions, and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings, and asset management products and services.
Our commitment to our colleagues is to work in an inclusive, responsible, enjoyable, and fulfilling environment. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values: Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
We offer great workplace benefits such as 28 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, up to 14% employer-matched pension scheme, and private medical insurance. All benefits are detailed on our website.
Inclusion, diversity, and belonging
We celebrate and value diverse backgrounds and cultures. Our diverse perspectives give us a range of skills that are recognized and respected, regardless of background.
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