Senior Project Manager

**Vitality, Senior Project Manager (6 Month FTC), Bournemouth, £Competitive Benefits Bonus**

We’re the UK insurer and investment provider that rewards people for positive lifestyle choices. With 1.25m UK members and more than 25m globally, we’re out to make the world a healthier, happier place.

That applies as much to our people as it does to our members. So, as well as a highly competitive pay package, you’ll enjoy: Free places to Vitality sponsored run events, online fitness classes and wellbeing workshops, competitions to win tickets to top-flight sporting events, health checks, and access to our full range of partners and rewards.

It’s what we call offering shared value, because a healthy, happy team is good for us, good for our members, and good for you.

**As our Senior Project Manager, you’ll get the benefits our members enjoy, including**:

- Our award-winning private Vitality Health insurance wellness incentive programme
- Access to The Vitality Programme - Apple Watch, Waitrose and Partners, Garmin, Amazon Prime, Champneys Spa days, Rakuten TV, and half-price gym memberships to name a few
- Personal health fund Life Assurance
- Stakeholder Pension Plan with employer contribution
- 25 days annual leave Bank holidays option to buy and sell 5 more
- Flexible benefits package
- Internal incentives, competitions, and awards - a chance to win football and sports tickets or even be in with a chance to have a holiday of a lifetime
- A genuine opportunity to grow and establish a long-term career

**Your key responsibilities as our**Senior Project Manager will include**:

- Promote Project Management Best Practice and industry standards
- Proactively engage with specific sponsors and stakeholders to define and scope, then manage allocated project efficiently and effectively, particularly large scale projects
- Management of multiple projects in parallel if required
- Agree roles and responsibilities for sponsor and stakeholders
- Establish the project governance model, team structures and practices, and working relationships, and work with the PMO to improve and enhance as the Project Management team’s representative
- Define and coordinate the securing of commitments from cross functional groups and external providers
- Establish milestones, activities and plans, and manage performance against them
- Manage time, budget and scope movement in the face of uncertainty, change and aggressive deadlines common to a rapidly growing company with an evolving business model
- Produce and manage budget and resource plans for the project and continually update these as change occurs
- Manage, document and escalate cost, risk and scope issues with the Head of Portfolio Change or Sponsor
- Follow the project methodology, practices and procedures appropriate for the particular project
- Provide effective status updates to key stakeholders
- Identify, evaluate and document ‘lessons learned’ during the project
- Communicate best practices and lessons learned to project team members and other IT teams

**What we’re looking for in our**Senior Project Manager**:

- Can evidence ability to build and lead integrated teams from various internal and external organisations across multiple sites with a proven record of success
- Experience in helping team members harness and develop strengths in pursuit of successful portfolio outcomes
- Proven problem-solving, decision-making and financial skills
- Appropriate knowledge of the regulatory and quality requirements for the financial services industry
- Effective business-development skills, including proposal development and preparation
- Batchelor’s degree required; or more than five years of related experience in operations, IT or product development
- Practical experience of different project methodologies

Working for **Vitality**, you';ll experience an exciting mix of creativity and innovation, within a framework of challenging objectives and a passion for delivering the best.

Our people are chosen for their skills, knowledge, enthusiasm, and attitude but above all, their belief that anything can be achieved.

If you feel you have the skills and experience to become our**Senior Project Manager**,**then**please click ‘**apply’** today.

Please note that to ensure the safety of our offices and employees, we require all new hires to be vaccinated for Covid-19.

You can find more information about our commitment to ensuring office safety to reduce the risk of Covid-19 transmission by visiting the careers page on our company website.