Senior Project Manager

Job Title: Senior Project Manager - Migrations
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Alderley Edge or Edinburgh
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Closing date: 13th January 2025
 

This is a unique opportunity to join Royal London working on our strategic migration projects as we modernise our estates. We are looking for an exceptional individual who has delivered multiple  migration projects, ideally within a Life and Pensions environment and would relish the chance to use their experience to help shape how we do things here.

As Senior Project Manager within the Change team you will be required to deliver complex migration projects which support the achievement of the Group strategy, effectively and efficiently. You will strive to ensure business outcomes are clearly understood and associated solutions are delivered to enable the business to realise benefits on time, within budget and to agreed quality standards.

You will take overall responsibility for planning and leading the delivery of the whole change lifecycle for projects covering both Business and Technical driven migrations and in turn creating a reusable strategy and approach.

About the role

•    Lead end-to-end project management for migration projects within the organization.
•    Develop and implement comprehensive migration plans, including migration strategy, scope definition, resource allocation, and documentation.
•    Collaborate with the Customer teams to determine appropriate approaches considering benefits against cost and complexity of the solution.
•    Collaborate with technical teams to ensure seamless integration and minimal disruption to business operations during migrations.
•    Conduct risk assessments and develop mitigation strategies to address potential challenges and issues that may arise during migrations.
•    Facilitate decision making over approaches to handle product feature differences and functionality differences between the source and target platforms, considering both technical and operational impacts of potential approaches
•    Monitor and track project progress, identify deviations from plan, and take appropriate corrective actions to keep projects on track.
•    Coordinate with key stakeholders to ensure their requirements are included in migration plans and effectively communicated to project teams.
•    Manage project budgets, forecasts, and financial reporting to ensure projects are delivered within agreed-upon financial constraints.
•    Facilitate decisions to enable decommissioning of the source system post migration completion

About you

•    Experience of leading complex migration projects with cross functional teams across multiple parties, including third party suppliers 
•    Highly competent in the use of ETL or ELT migration tools and the use of staging areas for managing the translation and loading of data
•    Ability to translate complex data requirements to a business audience to ensure clarity of requirements.
•    Proven ability to work in an ambiguous environment and collaborate across multiple areas in order to achieve a common business or technical objective
•    Interpersonal skills to influence and spur change, facilitate and enhance performance within a cross - functional environment
•    Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation and presentations to various audiences, including project team, sponsors, CIO and key stakeholders
•    Identify and develop trusted adviser relationship with project stakeholders and sponsors

About Royal London

We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.   
 
Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve. 
 
We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. 
 
Inclusion, diversity and belonging 
 
We’re an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.