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With a heritage dating back more than 175 years, we have a long history of innovation in savings and investments, combining asset management and insurance expertise to offer a wide range of solutions. \nOur two distinct operating segments, Asset Management and Life, work together to provide access to balanced, long-term investment and savings solutions.\nThrough telling it like it is, owning it now and moving it forward together with care and integrity; we are creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent.\nWe will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and offer workplace adjustments to ensure you have the support you need to succeed in your role.\nThe Role: Senior Project Manager\nLocation: Stirling, Edinburgh or London - 2 office days per week\nThis role will reside within our Life business unit as part of the Change & Transformation team. The overall Change team’s purpose being to provide oversight and assurance on all aspects of business change and transformation delivery for or impacting our Life business, whilst ensuring change and transformation delivery is aligned to both our Life and wider M&G strategy.\nThese roles own the end-to-end delivery of medium to highly complex projects. You will be responsible for driving the definition of the business case, project objectives, scope, resources and expected business outcomes, together with detailed project plans. You will be expected to implement and adhere to the required project management methodologies and governance and provide the project team, including our key delivery partners, with direction and confidence to deliver and leverage the expected benefits.\nKey responsibilities for this role:\nOwn the end to end delivery of medium to highly complex projects, identifying key business stakeholders; leading on defining business case, project objectives, scope, resources and agreed set of expected benefits and outcomes.\nIn conjunction with the Project Sponsor, communicate the outcomes/benefits of the project across the organisation to garner support and buy-in.\nCreate and maintain high quality project plans (with built in risk mitigation strategies) and work packages that support delivery, ensuring that responsibilities are assigned to project resources.\nEvaluate delivery options and the team’s performance, providing feedback where necessary and adjusting plans at regular intervals against the scope, schedule, budget, risks, outcomes and benefits.\nProvide regular forecasts of the future Change and BAU resources required for the project\nProvide the project team with direction and confidence to deliver and ensure that the project delivers the required benefits and outcomes within the specified tolerances of time, cost, quality, scope, benefit and risk.\nUndertake regular lessons learnt sessions during the life of the project, implementing agreed recommendations to ensure the project team learns from experience and proactively shares lessons with the broader Project Management community.\nAdhere to governance standards, including Project Change Standard and guidelines, maintaining accurate RACI and RAID logs within Project Management tools such as JIRA and Service Now.\nProduce timely management information ensuring all mandatory documentation (e.g. business case, requirement documents/user stories, stage gates, test plans, change requests, closure documents) is completed and signed off at the appropriate stages during the life of the project and establish appropriate governance to reflect the complexity of the project as required.\nForecast future external costs, understand the drivers of project cost variance and take actions to control costs to budgets or raise change control\nMonitor and report progress to the impacted stakeholders (e.g. sponsor(s), Programme manager, Change Programme Directors, steering committee) including ongoing business case viability.\nIndependently identify and take ownership of issues, risks and dependencies, making recommendations to mitigate the risk or to reduce/remove issues. Escalate where appropriate to maintain progress towards project delivery and act as an escalation point on behalf of the Project Sponsor.\nComplete handover to BAU, and business benefits realisation activities to close off projects.\nManage resource planning and motivate the project team to ensure a high standard of output, focused on customer satisfaction and delivery through developing others through providing ongoing guidance, mentoring or coaching\nManage relationships with required teams e.g. Technology, external suppliers and other business functions to achieve timely delivery.\nSupport the Lead Programme Management Officer in establishing appropriate governance and assuring that the Project Change Standard is appropriately applied.\nConduct training workshops with Project Managers focused on improving both project and change management capabilities across the Project Management team\nSkills and Competencies\nConfident and effective communicator (both written and verbal) across all levels of the organisation. Confident in facilitating medium to large sized workshops and meetings with stakeholders.\nAbility to motivate, influence and constructively challenge where appropriate.\nAbility to build and maintain strong relationships across the business and with external parties including key delivery partners.\nStrong organisational and planning skills with the ability to manage multiple projects, resources, priorities and deliverables to tight deadlines.\nPassionate about developing a work environment that embraces and values diversity. \nAttention to detail and the ability to articulate complex ideas/concepts to stakeholders.\nAbility to anticipate, prioritise and resolve issues using problem solving and analytical skills.\nWell-developed interpersonal skills, leading by example and exercising good judgment and decision making skills.\nStrong programme budgetary control and financial management\nAdvanced understanding and practical application of project management methodologies\nExperience:\nSignificant and demonstrable track record of end to end delivery of projects, including demonstrable experience of successfully turning around failing projects, building momentum, and buy-in to a new project.\nFinancial Services Experience (essential)\nLife and Pensions experience (desirable)\nRisk & Controls/Regulatory Change Delivery Experience (essential)\nExperience of leading business, technical and regulatory projects, working with both internal and external stakeholders\nExperience of working in a highly controlled and regulated environment\nWorking effectively with stakeholders at different levels\nJob Level: Manager/Expert\nWhat we offer:\nWe’re dedicated to supporting your wellbeing and helping you thrive, both at work and beyond. Our benefits are designed to help you balance your professional and personal life, and financially plan for the future. Our UK benefits include:\nA valuable pension scheme of up to 18% (13% made up of employer contributions and 5% employee contributions).\nAccess to ourShare Save and Share Incentive Plan, alongside financial wellbeing and support services to help give you real confidence to put your money to work.\nEnjoy 38 days annual leave (including bank holidays), with the opportunity to purchase up to five extra days. Our Time Off When You Need It policy gives you the flexibility - to balance work and personal commitments. \nOur market-leading Inspiring Families policy includes comprehensive support and paid parental leave covering maternity, adoption, surrogacy, and paternity leave - because supporting families is an important part of our inclusive culture.\nHealth & Protection cover includes Private Healthcare, Critical Illness cover and Life Assurance for you, with additional family options - for peace of mind.\nTo explore more about life at M&G and our full benefits offering, visit Life at M&G\nAt M&G we strive to have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture, underpinned by our policies and employee-led networks that offer networking, support and development opportunities for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds - across gender, ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation and more - including neurodivergent individuals, career returners and those with military service experience.\nM&G is proud to be Level 3:Disability Confident Leader under the UK Government Disability Confident employer scheme, and we welcome applications from candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions. If you would like to participate in the initiative, you will have the opportunity to indicate this on your application.\nWe are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process. All candidates have the opportunity to request reasonable adjustments when applying. 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