Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

Starting salary: c. £65,000 Depending on skills and experience

Location: York or Bristol with 50% office attendance

Are you someone who thrives on delivering change, bringing structure to complex projects, and working with stakeholders to turn plans into successful outcomes?

A bit about the job:

This is an exciting opportunity to join our transformation team, delivering projects and change initiatives that support our Finance function and wider business objectives. You'll be responsible for managing projects from initiation through to implementation and closure, ensuring delivery is on time, within scope and aligned to agreed governance standards.Working closely with business stakeholders, change teams, and delivery partners, you'll build and maintain project plans, manage risks, issues and dependencies, monitor budgets and resources, and provide clear reporting on progress. You'll also help embed change successfully by supporting communications, training, and business readiness activities where required.

Skills and experience we're looking for:

• Project management qualification (e.g. PRINCE2, APM, PMI) or equivalent project delivery experience.
• Experience delivering business change projects within a Finance function or other regulated environment is desirable.
• Strong knowledge of Agile, Waterfall and hybrid delivery approaches, with the ability to apply appropriate governance and controls throughout the project lifecycle.
• Proven stakeholder management skills, with experience producing clear reporting, influencing decision-making, and managing challenging conversations when required.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and third-party suppliers, managing dependencies and driving successful project outcomes.

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too. And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you. We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Starting salary circa £65,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity - actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s
• Generous pension scheme e.g. if you put in 8%, Aviva adds 14%
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
• Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it
• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave
• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work
• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

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Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Amber Britton a call on 07775546100 or send an email to amber.britton@aviva.com