Project Manager Remote
Job description
Work type: Permanent Full Time
Location: Remote - work from anywhere within the UK
Categories: Change Management
Business Unit: Change & Delivery
Salary range: £41,600 - £52,000 Per annum DOE
Your life more Virgin starts here
Join Virgin Money as we transform our team into one that is ready to meet the challenges of the future, setting us up to support our ambition to disrupt the status quo and turn traditional banking on its head. We’re on the lookout for like-minded individuals and innovators to help drive our strategy forward. We’re also transforming how we work, offering our colleagues more choice, control and flexibility to live and work how they choose with A Life More Virgin.
Here’s what it means for YOU:
- 38.5 days annual leave for all colleagues (including bank holidays and pro rata if part-time)
- Up to five extra paid well-being days per year
- A 35-hour working week
- 20 weeks paid, gender neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt
- Market leading Pension & Private Medical Insurance
- Flexible benefits including Cycle to Work, Wellness & Health Assessments and Critical Illness
- Ability to work anywhere in the UK (where the role allows)
And you get these Red-Hot Rewards from day one!
We're looking for highly motivated and talented Agile Project Managers who are actively looking for their next permanent career challenge. The Bank has a very clear growth strategy that focusses on the development of the organisation’s digital capability and adoption of Lean and Agile project delivery practices.
You'll work closely with Senior Project Managers as well as multiple internal stakeholders and third-party suppliers. You'll be responsible for managing your projects and stakeholders, through to successful completion. In return, we'll encourage and reward you, helping you every step of the way to forge a long term and successful career.
- Leading a multi-disciplinary team to successfully deliver the business and IT outcomes for our stakeholders and customers through the complete project lifecycle using Agile / Waterfall approaches depending on the project(s) assigned
- Identifying key resources and managing internal and external stakeholders to ensure project objectives are delivered
- Engaging senior stakeholders to shape the direction of the project; prepare and present key decisions for approval, articulating trade-offs between scope, solution, customer and operational impacts
- Managing the integration of complex IT systems, including third parties, engaging relevant platform teams and applying appropriate oversight and control to achieve the overarching project plan
- Ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and all governance, risk and regulated frameworks are adhered to throughout the project life cycle
- Understanding the context in which the project is delivering and anticipating challenges or blockers that may impede the team or identifying opportunities to join things up across the organisation to drive efficiency
- Experience managing risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies
- Excellent knowledge of project management disciplines (we’re super keen on agile), standards and processes in a large and complex environment with multiple delivery partners with good project planning, management, estimation and decision analysis skills
- Experience of working in a dynamic environment with multiple cross project dependencies
- Ability to lead a team of resources across multiple sites, whilst building solid business relationships
- Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal skills; capable of focusing and maintaining project direction whilst leading and motivating a team of specialist technical and/or business resources, as well as management of stakeholders
- Experience of managing projects with business and technology deliverables and / or changes involving external third-party providers
- Managing projects with a number of moving parts together with good organisational skills and multi-tasking is a must as is the ability to make rigorous decisions at pace
- A flexible and proven ability to successfully deliver agreed planning outcomes within an agile project development environment
- Technology experience
- Financial crime/ Fraud project experience
We really need you to have the skills and experience listed in the ‘There are a few essentials you need to bring’ section above, but the rest is just our wish list, so please don’t let that put you off applying, we’d love to hear from you!
Inclusion at Virgin Money
Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do here at Virgin Money. It’s good for you, it’s good for us and it’s amazing for our customers. We know that great minds don’t think alike, so we rely on your diverse thoughts, feelings, beliefs and backgrounds to be the best we can possibly be. Got any questions about this or need some support with your application? We’d love to hear from you so get in touch with our careers team at [email protected].
Now the legal bit…
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it) but we will need to you to confirm you have the Right to Work in the UK.
If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing 3 years' worth of satisfactory references.
Advertised: 29 Mar 2023 GMT Daylight Time
Applications close: 09 Apr 2023 GMT Daylight Time
