Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager – Edinburgh

At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group.

Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry’s best talent.

Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders, and society.

We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent.

Aberdeen comprises three businesses, interactive investor (ii), Investments, and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients’ evolving needs.

This role sits in our Adviser business which provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to bring value for their businesses and their clients. The Adviser Change team is a specialised function supporting the development and transformation of Aberdeen’s award winning open‑architecture platforms;
Wrap and Elevate; as well as the broader change agenda of Aberdeen’s Adviser business.

As a Senior Project Manager, you will report into the Programme Management team and will lead a cross‑functional team of change professionals to both sustain and radically transform our end‑to‑end Adviser business.

• 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
• Responsible for the development and management of budget and expenditure within their work streams / projects
• Responsibility for managing relationships with stakeholders (including Exec Stakeholders) and key customers to ensure delivery meets requirements
• Responsible for setting and managing the quality of deliverables for projects ensuring that appropriate standards are applied
• Ensure the delivered workstream / project meets the needs of the business as specified in the original requirements and that the agreed quality standards have been met
• Responsible for reporting and presenting on workstream / project status to the Programme, Steering Committee, stakeholders (including Exec Stakeholders) and senior management as required

• Track record of large-scale project delivery in Financial Services – ideally in Wealth Management/Investments/Pensions
• Third party delivery experience – have extensive experience delivering through third party partnerships
• Demonstrated 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

• Experienced in managing complex interdependent deliveries across multiple work streams and vendors
• Experience of delivering both technical and business change
• Commercial awareness, understanding of how to apply a commercial lens to discussions and decisions
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with experience presenting at a senior level and having difficult but constructive conversations with senior stakeholders as this role works directly with sponsors and chair Steering Committees
• Problem solving – ability to understand the challenges their team are facing and help them find the route to resolution
• Ability to quickly assess a situation and determine the correct next steps and priority tasks for the team to focus on
• Relevant Project / Programme / Portfolio / PMO Management qualification(s) e.g., PRINCE2

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