Senior Project Manager

Job Description

Senior Project Manager - Flexible location with travel to Banbury as and when required

Bibby Financial Services have an exciting opportunity available for a dynamic Senior Project Manager to join our team, working in any of our UK locations. You will join us on a full-time permanent basis and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of £65,000 - £70,000 per annum.

We’ve supported small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) since 1982 and today we support more than 12,000 businesses worldwide. We are proud to help businesses, both big and small to grow and thrive in domestic and international markets.

Why us?

We’re in the business of relationships. We know real value lies in real people, and it takes a motivated mindset and can-do attitude to belong here. It can be fast-paced and full-on, but we can handle it. We’re a collective of “got your back”, we collaborate together, take ownership and deliver for our clients every time. That way, everybody wins. In return, we’re all empowered to get the job done because we’re trusted to get it right. It’s why we were hired in the first place. We want you to make the choices you believe in – we’ll believe in them too.

As our Senior Project Manager, we will reward you and your hard work with:

• Company car allowance
• Private healthcare for you and your family
• Company pension scheme
• Wide range of flexible benefits, such as gym membership, technology, or health assessments
• Access to an online wellbeing centre
• Range of discounts from many businesses
• 25 days holiday

As our Senior Project Manager, you will independently lead and deliver global, complex, high-impact projects across the organisation that drive growth, enhance operational efficiency and ensure regulatory compliance. With extensive experience and expertise gained from various project management deliveries, ensure seamless planning, execution, stakeholder management and organisational collaboration to deliver projects on time, within scope and budget, whilst maintaining the highest standards of quality and customer satisfaction.

Your key duties as our Senior Project Manager will include:

• Independently leading the definition of scope and objectives with project sponsor.
• Developing detailed project plans (MS Project) for global and complex projects, with multiple Workstreams and dependencies.
• Ensuring timely, quality, and accurate reporting to stakeholders, according to defined PMO standards.
• Coordinating third-party suppliers/vendors from selection through to post-project delivery and transition to BAU.
• Responsibility for managing the project budget and ensuring adherence to the identified ROI, clearly highlighting where the benefits could be at risk, in conjunction with the finance team and assigned project accountant.
• Tracking all associated costs and making recommendations for any adjustments to stay within budget.
• Independently creating resolution and mitigation plans for project issues and risks, communicate and own to completion, applying sound judgement to escalate where necessary.
• Identifying and managing deviations to scope, quality, and time, according to defined standards and processes.

What we are looking for in our ideal Senior Project Manager:

• Expert level knowledge and extensive experience of ‘hands-on’ project management delivery. Qualified Project Management professional with certifications including Prince2, Lean, MSP, Agile, APM, ITIL, Change Management.
• Expert knowledge of tools and techniques specifically MS Project, with focus on project planning, and change management, within a programme/project environment.
• Hands-on delivery experience with both business and technical transformations, having recently led a project with min. >£1m, multiple delivery streams, and at least >15-20 assigned project resources.
• Expertise in transformation governance frameworks, project tools and techniques, track record of taking responsibility for high quality and on-time project deliveries.
• Track record of driving to timelines, strong planning, communications, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience of working within financial services highly beneficial.

There’s no place quite like BFS and we’re proud of that. And it’s all down to you - you make us the people with which every ambitious business loves to work.

If you would like to join us, please click ‘apply’ today to be considered as our Senior Project Manager – we would love to hear from you!

We're absolutely committed to being a truly inclusive place to work, where everyone has an equal opportunity to reach their true potential. Let us know if you need adjustments to support you through any stage of the recruitment process.

No agencies, please.