Pensions Project Manager

6 days ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom WTW Full time

Great opportunity for a project manager to join a thriving team, working across multiple disciplines, lines of business and external third parties to deliver a variety of pension change projects for some of the UK’s largest pension schemes.
**At WTW, we trust you to know your work and the people, tools and environment you need to be successful. The majority of our colleagues work in a ”hybrid” style, with a mix of remote, in-person and in-office interactions dependent on the needs of theteam, role and clients. Our flexibility is rooted in trust and “hybrid” is not a one-size-fits-all solution.**
**We understand flexibility is key to supporting an inclusive and diverse workforce and so we encourage requests for all types of flexible working as well as location-based arrangements. Please speak to your recruiter to discuss more.**
**The Role**
The role requires you to:

- Use your pensions technical knowledge, consulting skills and project management experience to proactively guide your project teams to the optimal project outcomes
- Develop detailed project plans to monitor and track progress
- Establish a robust project governance framework
- Lead and document project calls and facilitate planning workshops
- Achieve project delivery deadlines within scope, budget and following WTW's internal and quality control protocols
- Drive high quality client project delivery, operational efficiency and effectiveness
- Carry out continual project improvement reviews and ensure thorough tranche reviews are carried out at appropriate project milestones
- Ensure that the project documentation, such as risk logs, action plans, project plans are actively maintained
- Share knowledge and learnings
- Draft and support the creation of template project management materials
- Support, coach, train and mentor team members on project management

**The Requirements**
**The essential skills/experience for this role are**:

- A strong background in pensions project/programme management delivery
- UK DB Pensions knowledge
- Prince 2 qualified or similar (e.g. APM, PMP, CSM)
- Experience of managing several projects simultaneously
- Clear, concise and confident communication skills (both verbal and written)
- Practical experience in managing and controlling project budgets, accurate and timely billing and pricing and scoping new work
- Ability to identify and efficiently resolve issues
- Experience in facilitating and leading project meetings / workshops and taking effective notes
- A firm commitment to delivering high quality service
- Strong stakeholder management experience
- Solid planning and organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking

**Other highly desirable skills/experience are**:

- Working knowledge of Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, Excel
- Pensions industry qualifications would be an advantage
- Experience in preparing project governance documents, progress reports, RAID logs
- Experience in leading/presenting at multi-discipline meetings
- Experience of managing, coaching and mentoring individual team members

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