Pensions Project Manager
- Recruiter
- WTW
- Location
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Birmingham
West Midlands RegionUnited Kingdom
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 13 Sep 2022
- Closes
- 30 Sep 2022
- Job Title
- Project Manager
- Category
- Banking and Financial Services
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part 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.The successful candidate will be a pensions project manager with a professional technical DB pensions background and Prince 2 qualified or similar.Please note that while the successful candidate can select any of our main GB locations as their office base, WTW offers flexible working opportunities and part–time working.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 the team, 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 RoleThe successful candidate will work on a diverse portfolio of projects including GMP equalisation, member option exercises, benefit change projects, mergers, wind ups etc. for medium to large pension schemes, and work with a broad range of people across the WTW lines of business and external organisations. The role provides a defined career path as part of a dynamic team within a fast–growing area of the business.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
- Provide day–to–day project management, working closely with your client, workstream leads, subject matter experts and third parties to deliver project milestones
- 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
- 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
- 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