Junior Project Manager

Legal & General; England; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000

Job description

Legal & General is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor. We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, aiming to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone and create value for our shareholders.

Our Group Functions provide the services that all areas of the business need. This requires a talented and diverse team behind the scenes, who enable everyone at L&G to do what they do best.

Joining us means helping to improve the lives of our customers and contributing to the success of the business every day.

Job Description

Are you ready to take on a dynamic role in project management and contribute to our transformative initiatives? Legal and General are recruiting in our group functions division for a Junior Project Manager. You will play a crucial role in managing projects that meet identified business needs, utilizing your skills and resources within agreed parameters of cost, timescales, and quality. This is an exciting opportunity to work on high-profile and sensitive projects, gaining exposure to senior stakeholders and leaders across the business. You will thrive in a fast-paced environment, collaborating with a dynamic team to deliver high-quality work and drive impactful change. If you are passionate about project management and eager to make a tangible impact, we want to hear from you!

What you'll be doing:

• Taking end-to-end responsibility for the delivery of one low-complexity project, establishing and maintaining the correct structures to control and monitor deliverables
• Leading project planning, scheduling, controlling, and reporting activities, ensuring comprehensive project, quality, and risk plans are prepared and maintained
• Delivering effective communication to all impacted parties, including stakeholders and senior managers, to support effective decision-making
• Managing third-party relationships, ensuring dependencies are identified and managed, and deliverables are achieved without incurring unnecessary cost or delay
• Determining, monitoring, and reviewing all project economics, including costs, staffing requirements, project resources, and project risk
• Ensuring project control procedures are in place and actively used to assess the effect of risks, issues, assumptions, and changes on costs, timescale, and resource needs
• Demonstrating compliance with agreed methodology, standards, policies, and procedures to ensure strong governance
• Ensuring the delivery of services that are robust, effective, and thorough, aligning with L&G’s commitment to Treating Customers Fairly

Qualifications

Who we're looking for:

• PRINCE2 Foundation and/or APM IC preferred
• Understanding of the principles, methods, techniques, and tools for effective project management
• Demonstrable project/change delivery experience
• Strong organizational and time-management skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently and within a team
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Private medical care (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

Additional Information

Legal & General is a leading financial services group and major global investor, named Britain’s Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.

We aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We strive to be open, mindful and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs.

If you’re open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.