Senior Project Manager

Job Summary

Senior Project Manager – Adviser Business.

Reports to the Programme Management team and leads a cross‑functional team of change professionals to sustain and transform the end‑to‑end Adviser business within Aberdeen's Adviser platform.

• Responsibility for a large project, workstream(s) or release within a programme, ensuring delivery is to time, budget and quality.
• Applies and champions the appropriate project management discipline, i.e. planning, resourcing, scheduling, monitoring, reporting and risk, assumption, issue and dependency management.
• Establishes an effective project organisation structure.
• Manages development and expenditure budget within their work streams / projects.
• Manages relationships with stakeholders (including executive stakeholders) and key customers to ensure delivery meets requirements.
• Sets and manages the quality of deliverables for projects, ensuring appropriate standards are applied.
• Ensures the delivered workstream / project meets the needs of the business as specified in the original requirements and that agreed quality standards have been met.
• Reports and presents on workstream / project status to the Programme, Steering Committee, stakeholders and senior management as required.

• Track record of large‑scale project delivery in Financial Services – ideally in Wealth Management, Investments or Pensions.
• Third‑party delivery experience – extensive experience delivering through third‑party partnerships.
• Strong project governance and budget management, with accountability for maintaining financial control, governance discipline and transparent reporting to senior stakeholders.
• Strong dependency management across multiple work streams.

• Experience managing complex interdependent deliveries across multiple work streams and vendors.
• Experience delivering both technical and business change.
• Commercial awareness and ability to apply a commercial lens to discussions and decisions.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience presenting at a senior level and handling challenging conversations with senior stakeholders.
• Problem‑solving ability to understand challenges faced by the team and help them find resolution.
• Experience delivering through change steering committees.
• Relevant Project / Programme / Portfolio / PMO Management qualification(s) – e.g. PRINCE
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• 40 days’ annual leave.
• 16% employer pension contribution.
• Discretionary performance‑based bonus (where applicable).
• Private healthcare.
• Flexible benefits – gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal.

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