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Job Description

Investment Management firm is seeking a Project Manager who will leverage their extensive experience in delivering business change projects within large financial services environments. You will be responsible for shaping and executing complex initiatives, navigating organisational dynamics, and influencing senior stakeholders to ensure successful outcomes. You will lead stakeholder engagement and change management activities, developing tailored strategies to drive adoption and minimise resistance.

Required qualifications

10 years experience in financial services, with a focus on business transformation. Ability to translate corporate strategy into actionable project plans and deliver measurable business outcomes. Strong commercial awareness and ability to articulate the business value of change initiatives. Experience working with executive leadership and board-level stakeholders. Demonstrated success in managing complex stakeholder environments.

The main duties and responsibilities include:

Project delivery – Shape plan and deliver Business Change initiatives and projects; applying experienced project management practices from concept through to implementation managing project budgets; project risks; and working across teams to successfully manage key projects through to delivery

Change management – Lead change management activities, ensuring effective communication and adoption of new processes and technologies across all levels of the organisation. Develop and execute stakeholder engagement plans tailored to complex organisational structures.

Stakeholder navigation and influence - Demonstrated ability to navigate and influence senior stakeholders across diverse corporate functions, building consensus and driving alignment to achieve project objectives.Expertise in stakeholder mapping, engagement strategies, and managing competing priorities in a corporate setting.

Process improvement – Understanding business needs and challenges; analyse and document business and operational processes; mapping as-is and identifying best practice and driving improvements aligned to the firm’s mission and key business objectives. Partner with business functions to understand business objectives, needs and challenges and document ‘as is’ processes and controls. Undertake business and process analysis, assessing efficiency and effectiveness of processes, procedures, data and systems.

Identify best practice and assess opportunities for re-engineering, digitization or automation.

Identify, scope, and facilitate improvement and opportunity framing/ design workshops. Secure stakeholder support and buy-in through demonstration of commercial value and storytelling.

Champion continuous improvement and innovation to create a culture where this is part of everyone’s day-to-day thinking in the operation of their processes.

Support the Project Delivery Manager in the development of change management strategy and reporting across all projects, working with IT and operations teams to deliver on tech enablement and digitization roadmap. As part of project lifecycle, identify, prioritise and plan change initiatives including: identification of objectives, assessment of options, approach, timings, benefit tracking and ensuring appropriate internal sponsorship.

A key requirement of the role will be the ability to manage many projects at any one time , leading the business stakeholders through delivery, encouraging an agile mindset and being prepared to “roll up your sleeves” to perform tasks to move the project forward as an advocate for change and be successful in achieving desired outcomes.

Location: The role will be based in London with potential occasional travel required to fulfil the role. It will require building trusted relationships and day-to-day in-person interaction with multiple teams and stakeholders.

Hybrid working -3-4 days per week in Central London office

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