Project Manager

Description
Project manager

About People's Partnership
At the heart of our not-for-profit organisation is a commitment and a motivation to make the future-saving experience a simple one for our members. We champion fairness and simplicity, not profit-chasing. Imagine a financial adventure where everyone's a winner, fuelled by our exceptional service and brought to life by the fantastic individuals who work for us. We're a diverse employer with a flexible, hybrid working approach, ensuring everyone gets the opportunity to come to work and be the best version of themselves.

What You'll Be Doing
The Project Manager is a key role within People's Partnerships growing Group Change function. Group Change is a function responsible for delivery of People's Partnerships multi-million-pound change portfolio consisting of the top priority strategic projects that enables the organisation to achieve its business objectives. The Project manager will lead a multi-disciplinary team responsible for effective delivery of project(s), managing issues, risks and dependencies ensuring defined objectives are delivered on time and to budget.

• Lead a multi-disciplined project team to develop and deliver People's Partnerships critical projects in line with defined project accountabilities. This can be either a standalone project or a project within an overall programme.
• Deploy an appropriate methodology (Waterfall, Agile/SCRUM, iterative) in line with the project success criteria.
• Lead the development of appropriate project documentation in a full project management lifecycle including maintenance of project files and compilation of reports. To include PIDs, RAID logs, stage gate reports etc.
• Ensure an efficient allocation of project resources with clear roles and responsibilities in place. Manage third party contributions as appropriate working closely with the People's Partnership vendor management office.
• Establish controlled project quality procedures and administer all related project plans including quality, test and implementation plans.

What We're Looking For

• Experience working in a project management role and budget management.
• Versed in all core project disciplines e.g. scope definition, planning, risk & issue management, benefit realisation and project governance.
• Working experience of Waterfall project/programme management methods. Appreciation of Agile/iterative techniques.
• People Management skills including team capability improvement and change best practices.
• Prince2 and Agile Scrum qualifications would be advantageous

What You Can Expect From Us

• Generous pension contributions with an employer contribution of up to 14%
• Real living wage
• Income protection, critical illness cover & death in service insurance
• Employee healthcare
• Parental and adoption leave
• Learning & development opportunities and study support
• Travel season ticket loans
• Subsidised restaurant in our Crawley office
• Volunteering days and charity payroll giving
• Onsite gym
• Ride-to-Work scheme
• Social clubs and events

You can learn more about how we support our employees on our website

Disability Statement

People's Partnership is an equal opportunities employer. We believe everyone has the right to be treated fairly, with dignity and respect. We are committed to treating all our people (and all who apply for a role at People's Partnership) equally and enabling them to perform at their best and demonstrate what they have to offer. We are a disability committed employer, please let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments made to our recruitment process (application, selection assessments where relevant, and interview) to enable you to show us the best "you".

Perks
Our people are our strength so finding ways to value and reward them is important to us. That's why we offer an award-winning pension – it's what we're good at – plus health care cover, an onsite gym, access to a personal trainer; even the odd massage. And if they're feeling peckish after all that activity, they can always refuel in our subsidised restaurant. Discover more of People's Partnership's employee benefits including our training programme, which is designed to give our people the support they need to develop a fulfilling career.

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