Senior Project Manager

Procentia, part of the Brightwell Group, is an award-winning software and technology company specialising in the Pensions and Pension Risk Transfer/Bulk Purchase Annuities market. Established in 2002, the business is renowned for its web-based pensions administration and management system, Intelli Pen.

Procentia, part of the Brightwell Group, is an award-winning software and technology company specialising in the Pensions and Pension Risk Transfer/Bulk Purchase Annuities market. Established in 2002, the business is renowned for its web-based pensions administration and management system, Intelli Pen.

Procentia's products and solutions help pension schemes and administrators of all types and sizes manage exceptional volumes of data, meet the demand for self-serve technology, and provide meaningful, consumer-like experiences that users expect from modern online financial platforms while minimising the need for administrator intervention and involvement.

With offices in the UK and North America, Procentia supports some of the largest pension schemes, insurers and retirement plans across the private and public sectors, including BP, British Airways Pension Scheme, BTPS, Chicago Transit Authority, Legal & General Retirement America, Retirement System City of Detroit, Rolls-Royce, Royal London, and Universities Superannuation Scheme.

Our Senior Project Managers play a critical role in the successful delivery of complex client and internal projects, with accountability from initial scoping through to go-live and early-life support.

Their role combines strong delivery leadership, stakeholder engagement, and hands-on project management to ensure outcomes are delivered to a high standard, on time, and in line with client and organisational objectives.

Acting as a trusted delivery partner, you'll work closely with clients and internal teams to translate requirements into structured, achievable delivery plans, while building strong and effective working relationships across stakeholders at all levels.

• Managing a team (size varies with project size, and as a senior PM you'll get the bigger more complex ones or multiple deliveries to manage at the same time) of implementation consultants, business analysts, developers, testers and release managers
• Working closely with our clients to agree delivery requirements, milestones, governance, and agreed ways of working
• Working on projects worth upwards of £3m or multiple smaller deliveries
• Writing a Project Initiation Document (PID) and running project kick off meetings
• Developing and maintaining a project plan in MSP
• Operating within PMO standards and Procentia Ways of Working, adhering to internal governance and mainting those standards throughout delivery
• Working in a consortium with offshore contributors
• Running regular (usually weekly) project progress meetings (via Teams); internal and external
• Producing project reporting in line with Procentia's PMO standards
• Preparing for and presenting at regular (usually monthly) project steering meetings
• Maintaining a Project RAID log, action log and Profit & Loss tracking
• Keeping the project on schedule, within budget, and as per agreed scope
• Tracking burn down rates, identifying risks and issues, owning escalations and managing them to a high level of competence

• Extensive delivery experience (8-12 years), with a strong track record managing complex projects and multi-workstream projects end-to-end
• Proven leadership of software implementations, from initiation through to go-live and post-implementation support
• Strong planning and governance capability, including RAID management, dependency control, and structured delivery frameworks
• Excellent stakeholder…