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With our clients at the heart of everything we do, our hard-working team has successfully delivered on an unprecedented growth and transformation journey, and we are now represented by over circa 13,000 employees across 112 offices worldwide.Your career with us should reflect your energy and passion.\nThat’s why, at Apex Group, we will do more than simply ‘empower’ you. We will work to supercharge your unique skills and experience.\nTake the lead and we’ll give you the support you need to be at the top of your game. And we offer you the freedom to be a positive disrupter and turn big ideas into bold, industry-changing realities.\nFor our business, for clients, and for you\nFunctional Title: Project Manager\nCorporate Title: Assistant Vice President\nAbout Apex\nThe Apex Group is a global financial services provider with 10,000 staff across 50+ offices globally. We look to recruit bright, articulate and numerate employees who are not afraid of a challenge and are prepared to work hard and love what they do.\nEvery employee plays a part in making Apex who we are today and the more that we grow, the more important that becomes. Whatever your career path or specialism Apex provides a global platform to allow you to thrive.\nAs APEX FUND SERVICES is expanding, we are opening an exciting new opportunity.\nWe are currently looking for suitable, motivated and team-oriented professional for the position of Release Train Engineer\nPurpose of the Role\nThe primary purpose of the Project Manager role is to lead and develop one or more project teams to deliver value effectively and predictably. The PM is an accountable delivery leader, not just a coach or facilitator, who actively shapes team culture, fosters collective ownership, and drives continuous improvement. They take clear responsibility for team effectiveness, delivery success, and reliability. A core part of the role is leading the team to meet stakeholder expectations consistently by protecting their ability to forecast realistically, maintaining sustainable delivery pace, and driving measurable improvement in flow, collaboration, and outcomes.\nThe role leads the planning and scheduling of projects, change management, project metrics production and analysis within the team working with colleagues across Technology and Product to prioritorise delivery in line with strategic, regulatory and growth objectives.\nThe position reports into the Portfolio Lead and helps plan annual portfolios based on business needs, manage portfolio health, risks, dependencies, and compliance, and support the development and advocacy of Portfolio Operations delivery framework, develop standard project/program delivery methodologies to be used across all technology change delivery.\nKey Responsibilities\nStrategic Alignment & Value Delivery\nOwn alignment between work and value: ensure team goals and priorities are visible and connected to business objectives.\nCoach the “why” of delivery: help the team stay focused on valuable business outcomes, not just tickets or tasks.\n Model outcome-focused planning: ensure the team understands what they’re delivering and why it matters to stakeholders, leveraging strategic artifacts and partnering with product and product aligned roles (e.g. Tower leads, BAs).\nPlanning, Scheduling & Flow Optimisation\nLead sustainable planning: ensure the team only commits to work they can realistically deliver, based on past velocity and current context.\nActively protect team capacity: buffer the team from external demands that would lead to overcommitment or churn.\nSupport reliable forecasting: track and communicate metrics such as throughput, velocity, and predictability to aid team effectiveness and stakeholder confidence.\nUse flow data to drive improvement: use of data to surface WIP issues, blockers, and overcommitment patterns, and lead the team in resolving them.\nDelivery Governance, Quality & Compliance\nChampion readiness and discipline: ensure stories and features are well defined and understood before commitment. Holds themselves and others accountable to policies and escalate upwards where necessary.\nOwn impediment management: proactively resolve delivery blockers and escalate when needed to protect and improve delivery.\nBalance assurance and autonomy: help the team meet governance requirements efficiently, preserving delivery focus.\nPeople Leadership & Capability Growth\nLead team effectiveness efforts: assess team health, facilitate improvement conversations, and take ownership of follow-through.\nCreate space for collaboration and learning: protect the team’s time and mental bandwidth so they can reflect and prioritise improve activity.\nCoach Lean Agile behaviours: embed focus on value, flow, collaboration and quality within the team’s daily ways of working.\nPromote sustainable delivery: be a voice for saying “no” or “not yet” when team bandwidth and commitments are at risk.\nStakeholder Communication & Reporting\nOwn team-level visibility: communicate progress, risks, and trade-offs clearly, constructively, and timely.\nManage upward expectations: ensure stakeholders understand what the team can deliver and when, based on evidence, not hope.\n Advocate for responsible planning: push back on unrealistic expectations when needed to build trust and preserve credibility and delivery integrity.\nExperience required\nProven experience as a Project Manager in both agile and waterfall environments.\nTrack record of contributing to PI Planning and other large-scale Agile events.\nDeep understanding of Agile and Lean principles, with hands-on experience in frameworks such as SAFe, Scrum, and Kanban.\nStrong experience leading high-performing Agile delivery teams\nAbility to identify, manage, and resolve delivery-level risks, dependencies, and conflicts.\nSkilled in stakeholder communication and negotiation at senior leadership level.\nExcellent command of verbal and written communication (English). Effective presentation style for all levels of stakeholders. \nProficiency with tools such as Azure DevOps and MS Office.\nRelevant certifications preferred.\nBachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience); advanced degree in IT/management a plus.\nBackground in complex, large-scale business or financial services environments desirable.\nDisclaimer: Unsolicited CVs sent to Apex (Talent Acquisition Team or Hiring Managers) by recruitment agencies will not be accepted for this position. 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