Lead Project Manager

Who are Diligenta?

Diligenta's vision is to be acknowledged as Best in-class Platform based Life and Pensions Administration Service provider. Customer service is at the heart of everything we do, and our aim is to transform our clients' operations. A business that has been described as 'home' by existing employees, we drive a culture that is founded on positive change and development.

The Opportunity

We are recruiting this role due to a wide range of new change initiatives with one of our largest clients. You will manage and deliver multiple projects or programme work-streams to meet business objectives. The role is best suited for an experienced Senior PM looking to step up or an established Lead PM - the successful candidate will also need to have background in release management.

It is based in Edinburgh and will be hybrid so 2/3 days a week at home is acceptable.

You'll be:

• Manage the successful projects / workstreams within the agreed time, cost and quality criteria to ensure meets the business requirements and stakeholder expectations.

• Analyse the performance of the projects, recommend and implement corrective action to cover gaps

• Develop and maintain appropriate project disciplines and controls to ensure successful and controlled project delivery

• Identify, evaluate and manage risks to the project, implementing appropriate actions to mitigate risk using risk management techniques

• Produce project documentation in line with the agreed methodology and provide regular, timely and accurate updates on progress

• Provide management direction and leadership to the project team to ensure successful delivery

• Manage and deliver projects in line with the BaNCS release approach and process

You should apply if you:

• An experienced project manager with an excellent understanding of project management techniques and disciplines
• Experience of management and motivation of a team of specialist and non-specialist staff
• Experience of managing medium to high scale and / or medium to high risk projects in a commercial outsource organisation and / or financial services environment.
• Has experience of managing multiple cross-functional stakeholders, both internal and external
• Multi-disciplinary experience and has demonstrated ability to quickly come up to speed on new areas, to quickly build credibility with professionals from other disciplines
• Has driven business solution identification and project initiation
• Has depth and breadth of experience of Life + Pensions operation and a strong knowledge of its internal functions.
• Gain professional accreditation on completion at no extra cost through our bespoke 24/7 professionally accredited online learning and development tools
• Develop your career through a wider global organisation of the TCS family