Technical Project Manager

**Summary**

GTS is Quilter Group’s primary engine for the deliver of business and technology change including the provision of robust infrastructure and IT service operations that Quilter can depend upon.

**About the Role**

Level: 4

Department: GTS

Location: Southampton

Contract type: Day Rate Contractor

Contract Duration: 6 Months

You will be part of a team that values working together, supporting each other and delivering high quality change to enable our people and our business to prosper. As part of that team, you will be responsible for:

- Delivering projects; working in partnership with key stakeholders to ensure delivery in line with agreed milestones, priorities, standards and budget.
- Defining project organisation structures and resourcing models and plans the project and approach, negotiating with supply teams which may be third parties to deliver projects effectively.
- Leading the project inter-dependencies and constraints and in line with the agreed governance process, standards and reporting.
- Managing project risks and issues ensuring that they are impact-assessed mitigated and escalated where appropriate.
- Managing and monitoring the project performance through clearly defined metrics and KPIs.
- Measuring and tracking project finances, progress against milestones, and appropriateness and quality of work, and where necessary takes corrective action.
- Ensuring project plans are produced, actively maintained, of the appropriate detail, and consistently aligned to the project plan

**About You**

Experience in a financial sector is not essential, nor is a formal project management qualification, however both would be advantageous as the delivery of new platforms can involve a level of business understanding within a well governed change environment.

We work with waterfall and agile methods, including tools such as Jira.

The individual will have the following capabilities:

- Effectively manages change and initiates new and improved ways of working which positively impact our customers.
- Communicates with clarity and impact; demonstrates excellent listening, verbal and written communication skills.
- Detail conscious; demonstrating task and finance control.
- Objectively and systematically analyses problems and risks in order to develop appropriate solutions.
- Agile and effective decision making; within remit and executes in fast, simple and focused way.
- Collaborates effectively with stakeholders and colleagues to positively impact results and deliver effective customer outcomes.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, colleagues and suppliers.
- Ability to successfully influence, persuade and challenge stakeholders.
- Strong leadership capability, engaging, motivating, coaching and developing individuals to meet their target deliverables positively.
- Maintains focus and drive for results operating calmly in high pressure situations.
- Demonstrates credibility, professionalism and strong personal integrity and acts as a role model for the Quilter values - Pioneering, Dependable, Stronger Together
- Our purpose is to help the generations today and tomorrow to prosper. That means we must guide people through the complexity of planning for their future, with the right financial advice and investment solutions, so that they can have more secure financialfutures._
- In this ever-changing world, we see that our role in society has never been more meaningful, and we are committed to using our expertise and care to guide our customers through these challenging and unprecedented times._
- Our impressive talents and capabilities set us apart, but our unwavering commitment to our customers is what defines us. We truly believe that we have all the ingredients to be the very best in our industry, and we want great people with the care andcreativity that we need, to help us get there._
- We are passionate about building an inclusive culture where everyone’s contribution is valued, and our people can thrive. No matter what your role is or where you sit, your voice will matter. We hope you like what you hear and are interested in learningmore about joining us._