project manager London, England
Job description
Who we're looking for
Schroders Enterprise Change is growing in its delivery of large scale, cross group change. A Project Manager, capable of leading diverse and time bound projects, multiple teams with differing specialisms is needed to further support the portfolio of work.
The projects led by the successful individual will enable continuing growth of the Investment business, by enabling more flexible and efficient services, ensuring compliance to regulations, improved customer experience, better use of technology, better UX, realising target operating models and delivering leaner processes.
We require an individual with an excellent track record of delivering large projects across Technology and Business disciplines. It is expected that the individual will manage Business Analysts and potentially other SME's.
The Change Manger will be accountable to the Head of Group Change Planning & Delivery, but will also work significantly with business sponsors and potentially the Head of Business Treansformation, and the Technology Senior Management Team.
About Schroders
We're a global investment manager. We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future.
We have around 5,000 people on six continents. And we’ve been around for over 200 years, but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What doesn’t change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper.
The team
You will be part of Business Transformation at Schroders. Business Transformation designs and delivers solutions to enterprise level challenges and consists of a number of specialist practices including Business Solutions, Business Development and Enterprise Change.
This role is within the Enterprise Change Team. We are a friendly, supportive and collaboratve team comprising of Change and Programme Managers, Change Analysts, Change Architecture and Mobilisation and Portfolio & Planning, who collectively manage the delivery of Enterprise wide cross-domain change programmes and projects.
What you'll do
- Manage the delivery of complex projects
- Work with the senior stakeholders to ensure clear, consistent reporting and to ensure that the deliverables of projects remain clearly focused on business outcomes
- Work with business stakeholders
- Support Business Analysts and other co-ordinate resources within matrix management of the departments from which they will be provided
- Manage communication of progress and changes to the wider organisation
- Ensure financial diligence & reporting of the programme is adhered to working to secure delivery within budget.
- Excellent risk management
- Manage dependencies
- Practice, develop and promote the use of Business Transformation standards for change.
The knowledge, experience and qualifications you need
- Experience and knowledge of Asset Management.
- Understanding of delivery in an Agile manner, and understanding of the Lean approach.
- Proven delivery record of projects
- Ability to manage and motivate diverse sets of teams across multiple functions.
- Evidence of multiple senior stakeholder management
- Strong collaborative skills and when appropriate influence across a broad, senior stakeholder base
- Ability to deliver difficult messages where necessary and the ability to explain complex concepts in a clear and concise manner to stakeholders
- Evidence of resolving challenging issues and contributing to end state solution
- Methodical and detail orientated
- Able to make trade-offs to ensure priority value items are delivered
- Can drive to make decisions
The knowledge, experience and qualifications that will help
- Basic professional qualifications relating to the asset management industry (such as IMC)
What you'll be like
- Inspiring and collaborative team player
- Friendly, approachable, enjoys working with people from a variety of backgrounds
- Comfortable with ambiguity and change
- Receptive to others’ ideas and responds constructively to challenges
We're looking for the best, whoever they are
Schroders is an equal opportunities employer. You're welcome here whatever your sex, marital status, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religious belief or age.
To apply, please visit /careers.
