Project Manager

Wythall, South Birmingham (B47)

6 Month Fixed Term Contract

Come and join our exciting, dynamic and fast paced Change Team. We have a variety of projects to offer strong Project Managers including integrations, funds mergers, regulatory change etc.

You will have full responsibility for ensuring that projects deliver on time, within budget and achieve all objectives. Through working with senior stakeholders across our business you would play an integral part in shaping and delivering our core projects. 

You will ensure your projects follow appropriate Phoenix Change governance processes and controls, are planned following Phoenix Planning Standards, and are delivered efficiently and effectively.  You will manage project resources, risk and issues, as well as key stakeholders and staff.

What we’re looking for:

• Management of complex, high risk and high value projects from inception to conclusion.

• Proven track record of delivering projects in a financial services environment.

• Excellent project management, planning and organising skills based on understanding of multiple project management methods.

• Solid approach/understanding to the delivery and tracking of project benefits.

• Able to define and achieve challenging short and long-term objectives.

• Relationship building and management skills at senior internal and external level.

• Vision and purpose to drive organisational change.

• Excellent written, oral, presentation and facilitation skills.

• Technical competence in computer skills, particularly use of project software and office productivity tools.

• Recognised Project Management qualification desirable.

About us

Join the Phoenix Group, and you join a unique organisation. It’s not just the 10 million policyholders we serve, or the £240 billion of assets we look after. Or that we’ve been listed as one of the UK's Top Employers for seven years running. It’s the fact we manage predominantly closed life funds in our Heritage business. This means we can focus our innovative thinking and energy into improving outcomes for our existing customers and their customer experience.

But that’s not all. We also have an Open business which manufactures and underwrites new products and policies to support people saving for their future in areas such as workplace pensions and SIPPs. We also market corporate pension trustee services and manufacture products to be sold under other brands. Did you know Phoenix Life manufactures SunLife’s market leading Guaranteed Over 50’s plan?

Having acquired Standard Life Assurance Limited in 2018, Phoenix is now the largest consolidator of heritage life insurance funds in Europe with a vision to be Europe's Leading Life Consolidator.

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Closing date: Midnight, Friday 14th February 2020.