Senior Project Manager

Job Description

At abrdn, we empower our clients to plan, save, and invest for their futures. Through the expertise, insight, and innovation of our team, we aim to help clients create more ways for money to make an impact. We set our sights on giving them more confidence to achieve their goals and more clarity about what they need next. And we focus on delivering outcomes that are more than just financial – by investing sustainably to build a better world. We are structured around three businesses – Investments, Adviser, and Personal – focused on the changing needs of our clients, and by diversifying the group, we are positioning ourselves for growth in a changing investment landscape.

About the Department

The Adviser Change team is a specialised function supporting the development and transformation of abrdn’s award-winning open-architecture platforms; Wrap and Elevate; as well as the broader change agenda of abrdn’s Adviser business. We are about more than technology. We lead cross-functional teams of change professionals from across our business – and beyond – to sustain and radically transform our end-to-end Adviser business.

About the Role

As a Senior Project Manager, you will typically report to a Programme Manager within a matrix-based delivery structure. This role involves leveraging horizontal delivery projects/work-streams and vertical programmes/transition states from Initiation through to Delivery. The change lifecycle is underpinned by an overall Programme Management Office which provides comprehensive delivery support processes and governance rigour.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsibility for a large project, work-stream(s), or release within a programme, ensuring delivery is to time, budget, and quality.

• Applies and champions the appropriate project management discipline, including planning, resourcing, scheduling, monitoring, reporting, and risk management.

• Establishes an effective project organisation structure.

• Manages budget and expenditure within work-streams/projects.

• Manages relationships with stakeholders, including Exec Stakeholders and key customers, ensuring delivery meets requirements.

About the Candidate

The ideal candidate will possess the following:

• Proven track record of business and IT project delivery experience.

• Experienced in managing complex interdependent deliveries across multiple work-streams and vendors.

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with experience presenting at a senior level.

• Commercial awareness and the ability to apply a commercial lens to discussions and decisions.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire. One of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.

Our benefits

There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.

When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefits here.

Our business

Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients’ changing needs. You can find out more about what we do here.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.