Project Manager

Licensed sponsor United Kingdom Full-time Posted 1 hour ago

Are you ready to chart your own career path? With our refreshed strategy, we’re building on our rich heritage and transforming our business to be more scalable and efficient, unlocking the capabilities needed for future success. This includes significantly investing in technology, streamlining the way we work and creating an environment where colleagues feel engaged, empowered and accountable; where they can show up, speak up and perform - because we believe in the difference our work makes.

At a glance

Location: Lombard Street L/4/1
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Employment Type: Permanent
Seniority: Mid-Senior Level

About the role

As a Project Manager within the Investment Value Stream at St. James’s Place, you will play a pivotal role in delivering strategic change across our investment platforms, processes, and technology landscape. Working at the heart of a dynamic and evolving investment business, you will coordinate complex initiatives, drive operational improvements, and support the delivery of innovative solutions that enhance investment outcomes and client experience. This is an exciting opportunity to join an ambitious team committed to excellence, helping shape the future of our investment proposition and contributing to the delivery of world-class results.

What you'll be doing

Manage business projects from initiation to implementation, ensuring they meet user requirements with flawless execution.
Prepare and present progress reports, issues, and budgets to the steering committee.
Assess workloads and expenses for project activities and tasks.
Develop and maintain positive relationships with key collaborators.
Liaise with third parties to align deliverables and track achievements.
Support the coordination of user acceptance testing and development of test strategies and plans.
Provide on-the-job training, support, and mentorship to less experienced colleagues.

About you

You will be an experienced Project Manager with a proven track record of working within Investment Management across a range of sizes and complexities. You will have experience managing end-to-end project lifecycles, from requirements gathering and planning through to implementation, testing, and post-delivery support.

With strong stakeholder management skills, you will build effective relationships across business and technical teams, working closely with engineers, architects, vendors, and senior leaders to ensure successful project outcomes. You will be adept at managing project plans, budgets, risks, issues, dependencies, and governance, while maintaining clear communication with all stakeholders.

Essential Criteria

Strong Investment Management / Asset Management experience, with a practical understanding of front, middle and back-office investment processes, ideally including fund operations, investment risk, regulatory change, data, fund accounting and/or investment platforms.
Strong third-party/vendor delivery experience, comfortable managing delivery across external technology and service providers alongside internal SJP teams.
Proven delivery of complex investment change projects, taking initiatives from mobilisation and requirements through delivery, testing, implementation and business readiness, with strong control of plans, dependencies, risks, issues and milestones. The IVS environment includes projects with significant cross-project dependencies and regulatory/business outcomes.
Strong senior stakeholder and cross-functional leadership, able to coordinate Investment, Operations, Technology, Risk, Compliance, Procurement and external suppliers and drive issues and decisions through to resolution.

Desirable Criteria

Experience in the financial services industry.
Certification in project management methodologies (e.g., PRINCE2, PMP).
Awareness of the different project delivery approaches (eg Agile/Waterfall)

What's in it for you?

Whatever stage of life you're in, our benefits are designed to provide the support, flexibility, and peace of mind you need to thrive both at work and beyond.

In addition to our discretionary annual bonus scheme, which reflects both individual and company performance, you'll benefit from a market-leading benefits package tailored to support your wellbeing, financial security, and family life.

Our benefits include

28 days' annual leave plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase up to 5 additional days.
Private Medical Insurance – company-funded cover for you and your immediate family
Generous Pension Scheme – a non-contributory employer contribution of 10%, increasing with length of service up to 15%, plus the opportunity to increase this through salary sacrifice
Enhanced Parental Leave – up to 26 weeks' full pay to support growing families.
Protection Benefits – company-funded critical illness cover, income protection, and life assurance
EV salary sacrifice scheme through Tusker

Reasonable Adjustments We're an equal opportunities employer and want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible and inclusive for all, if you require reasonable adjustment(s) at any stage please let us know by emailing us at careers@sjp.co.uk

Research tells us that applicants (especially those from underrepresented groups) can be put off from applying for a role if they do not meet all the criteria or have been on an extended career-break. If you think you would be a good match for this role and can demonstrate some transferable experience please apply, regardless of whether you tick every box.

What's next?

If you're excited about this role and believe you have the skills and experience we're looking for, we'd love to hear from you! Please submit an application by clicking ‘apply’ below and our team will be in touch.

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