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It has an adviser and customer offering spanning financial advice, investment platforms, multi-asset investment solutions, and discretionary fund management. The business is comprised of two segments: Affluent and High Net Worth.\nAffluent encompasses the financial planning business, Quilter Financial Planning, the Quilter Investment Platform and Quilter Investors, the multi-asset investment solutions business.\nHigh Net Worth includes the discretionary fund management business, Quilter Cheviot, together with Quilter Cheviot Financial Planning - offering a highly personalised service to private clients, charities, trustees, and professional partners. Quilter Cheviot has presence throughout the UK, Ireland and Channel Islands.\nAt Quilter we never stand still. Our foundations are rooted in our extraordinary expertise, which is trusted by hundreds of thousands of customers, but we have great ambitions to stay one step ahead and make an even greater difference to the people and communities we serve, including our colleagues.\nOur business is transforming, continually modernising, and becoming even more customer centric. So, if you want to be bold in the pursuit of your ambitions, bring new ideas, and challenge and evolve what we do, it’s the perfect time to join us!\nAbout the Role\nLevel: 3\nDepartment: Security and Property\nLocation: Southampton, United Kingdom\nContract Type: Permanent\nRegulated/Non-Regulated: Non-Regulated\nThe Workplace Project Manager will be responsible for overseeing and driving all project activity within the Security & Property function, ensuring delivery is safe, effective and aligned with business priorities, agreed budgets, timescales and governance requirements. The role will lead and coordinate delivery across internal teams and external partners, actively managing relationships with appointed consultants and specialist providers and ensuring their work meets business requirements. Working closely with stakeholders, the role will bring direction and consistency to project activity, manage risks and dependencies, and ensure decisions and actions progress through to successful delivery.\nKey Responsibilities:\nProject Delivery & Management\nLead end-to-end delivery of projects managed directly within the function, including workspace improvements, facilities management changes, refurbishments, compliance activity and business-led property initiatives\nDevelop and manage project plans covering scope, timelines, dependencies and deliverables.\nEnsure project delivery follows agreed governance, approval processes and controls.\nCoordinate resources and prioritise project delivery across competing demands.\nTrack performance against agreed plans and proactively manage variances.\nExternal Project Delivery & Oversight\nRepresent Quilter on projects delivered through external consultants and delivery partners where specialist expertise or additional capacity is required, including major refurbishments, relocations and complex property initiatives. Retain overall oversight of delivery, directing appointed consultants and delivery partners, actively managing those relationships and ensuring projects meet agreed scope, budgets, timescales and business priorities.\nCoordinate internal stakeholders to define business requirements, secure timely decisions and approvals, and provide the governance inputs and reporting needed to support delivery.\n Provide assurance on progress, risks and dependencies into relevant programme and governance forums.\nReporting, MI & Governance\nProduce high-quality MI including RAG status, milestones, financials, risks and issues.\nMaintain central project tracking tools and dashboards.\nContribute to governance forums and leadership reporting.\nEnsure delivery aligns to governance standards, supporting transparency and auditability.\nBudget Management & Financial Control\nManage project budgets (forecasting, tracking, variance analysis).\nMonitors spend vs approvals, escalating risks early.\nDrive cost efficiency and value-for-money outcomes\nRisk & Issue Management\nIdentify and manage delivery risks and issues. Maintain clear logs and track mitigation actions.\nEscalate material risks and issues through relevant governance and support Ensure alignment to relevant frameworks and control requirements.\nStakeholder Management & Communication\nBuild strong cross-functional relationships (Property, Ops, IT, Finance, Procurement, suppliers).\nDevelop and deliver clear communication plans.\nProvide concise, tailored updates to all audiences.\nFacilitate meetings and decision-making sessions to ensure alignment.\nContinuous Improvement & Standards\nDrive consistent delivery through tools, templates and best practice.\nIdentify and implement efficiency improvements.\nContribute to governance frameworks and reporting standards.\nPromote a culture of accountability, resilience and continuous improvement\nAbout You\nYou will be an organised, proactive and confident project professional who brings structure, pace and clarity to project activity across the Security & Property function. You will be comfortable leading projects directly and representing Quilter on those delivered through external consultants and delivery partners, retaining overall oversight, directing their work and actively managing those relationships to ensure delivery meets business requirements.\nYou will be able to translate business needs into clear project plans, manage dependencies, track budgets and risks, and keep stakeholders informed through concise, accurate reporting.\nYou will hold a recognised project management qualification, such as PRINCE2, an APM qualification or PMP, and bring strong experience of delivering projects across different business environments.\nYour ability to apply sound project management principles and adapt your approach to each project will be more important than sector-specific experience, although a background in property, facilities management, workplace or refurbishment would be advantageous. Just as important will be your ability to build strong relationships, challenge constructively, manage detail without losing sight of the wider objective, and ensure projects are delivered to a high standard in a working environment.\nKey Requirements\nA recognised project management qualification is essential (e.g. PRINCE2, an APM qualification or PMP), with knowledge of methodologies and delivery approaches including waterfall, Agile, and hybrid, and the ability to apply the approach best suited to each project.\nStrong project management experience is essential, with the ability to apply sound delivery principles and adapt to different project and business environments. These capabilities are more important than sector-specific experience, although a background in property, facilities management, workplace, refurbishment or operations would be advantageous.\nProven ability to manage multiple concurrent projects with competing priorities.\nSound understanding of financial management, including budgets and forecasting\nExperience operating within structured governance frameworks, including reporting and MI production.\nExcellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence and engage at all levels.\nDemonstrated ability to identify, assess, and proactively manage risks within a regulated environment.\nInclusion & Diversity\nWe value diversity and strive to promote inclusivity in all aspects of our culture. We believe in equal opportunities for all, ensuring that no applicant encounters less favourable treatment based on anything but their skills, qualifications, experience, and potential. We celebrate the unique contributions of a diverse workforce and create a respectful, nurturing environment where every colleague can thrive.\nValues\nDo the right thing: We act with integrity and are proudly committed to going above and beyond in service of our clients and the support we provide our communities.\nAlways curious: We continuously seek new ideas and knowledge so we’re one step ahead of our clients’ needs. We look for inspiration everywhere and encourage experimentation, recognising that this is how we create brilliant solutions for brighter futures.\nEmbrace challenge: We aim high to transform our potential into meaningful outcomes. With ambition as our driving force and a steadfast commitment to growth, we succeed for the good of every generation.\nStronger together: Combining our diverse talents, we accomplish more collectively than we ever could do alone. We speak openly, actively listen, and support each other, and constructively challenge and embrace new ideas. We seek empowerment and demonstrate ownership and trust, with the confidence to make impactful decisions.\nCore Benefits\nHoliday: 182 hours (26 days)\nQuilter Incentive Scheme: All employees are eligible to participate in incentive scheme, to incentivise business performance and their contribution.\nPension Scheme: A non-contributory company pension scheme that can be boosted through personal contributions.\nPrivate Medical Insurance: Single cover as standard with options to increase cover to include your partner or children.\nLife Assurance: 4x your salary.\nIncome Protection: 75% of salary, less state benefits, payable after 26 weeks of absence.\nHealthcare Cash Plan: Jersey employees only\nIn addition to our core benefits, we offer a range of flexible benefits to UK employees that you can choose from and pay for conveniently via a salary deduction.","description_format":"text","description_chars":9704,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Health insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Financial Services","Professional Services","Wealth Management & Financial Advisors","Asset Management & Funds"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-17T02:47:49Z"},{"event":"close","at":"2026-09-30T02:25:38Z"},{"event":"reopen","at":"2026-11-03T20:00:22Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"GB","licensed_sponsor":true,"adverts_offering_sponsorship_24m":0,"sanctioned_now":false,"evidence":"Licensed UK visa sponsor (Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker)","filings_12m":null,"filings_prev_12m":null,"green_card_filings_12m":null,"median_offered_wage_usd":null,"route":"Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker; 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