Project Manager

Description

As a Project Manager at Benchmark Capital, you will play a pivotal role in driving strategic transformation across the business. Based at our Broadlands Business Campus in Horsham, you will lead the delivery of high-impact projects that enable business and technology change, enhance client outcomes, and strengthen our position as a leader in financial planning platforms.
You’ll be responsible for managing complex, cross-functional initiatives from inception to completion—ensuring alignment with organisational goals, stakeholder engagement, and successful value realisation. This role demands a proactive, strategic thinker with strong communication skills, a collaborative mindset, and a passion for delivering meaningful change.

Working closely with senior stakeholders, third parties, and the Project Management Office, you’ll champion structured project governance, risk management, and change adoption. You’ll also contribute to continuous improvement by sharing lessons learned and enhancing project delivery standards across the team.

This is a high-visibility role suited to someone with proven experience in end-to-end project delivery, ideally within financial services, and a strong ability to influence, lead, and drive results in a dynamic environment.

What you'll do

• Lead Strategic Projects: Manage end-to-end delivery of complex, business-critical projects—driving value realisation, balancing timelines, budgets, stakeholder needs, and quality within a dynamic environment.
• Project Planning and Execution: Develop compelling business cases aligned with organisation goals. Skilled in designing and orchestrating comprehensive project plans, with a strong focus on prioritisation and delivery management. Proactively oversees scope, resource allocation, risk mitigation, and stakeholder engagement to ensure timely, cost-effective, and high-quality outcomes that deliver business value. Adept at securing stakeholder alignment, preparing for operational readiness, and steering initiatives to successful completion at a strategic level.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Secure stakeholder and sponsor buy-in, ensure alignment of resources to priorities, and drive desired business outcomes. Manage stakeholder expectations by building strong relationships and ensuring regular, transparent communication to foster trust and support project success. Manage differing views and build consensus.
• Change Management: Apply structured change management frameworks to drive the effective adoption of strategic initiatives. Take full operational ownership by crafting and executing comprehensive end-to-end transition plans, engaging stakeholders early, defining clear responsibilities, delivering targeted training, and ensuring seamless integration into business-as-usual operations to achieve lasting transformation.
• Trusted Advisor: Build relationships with senior business partners and third parties. Facilitate timely decision-making and guide value trade-offs as needed.
• Collaboration: Work closely with the Project Management Office for accurate forecasting, reporting, resource allocation, and management. Lead business and client readiness, adopting effective stakeholder engagement strategies throughout the project lifecycle.
• Risk and Issue Management: Deliver proactive risk assurance by identifying, assessing, and managing risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies throughout the project lifecycle. Ensure clarity and control through structured RAID management and resolving uncertainties. Define project risk appetite and collaborate with stakeholders to implement effective mitigation strategies. Champions a robust risk culture that promotes ownership, transparency, and constructive conflict resolution across projects.
• Problem Solving: Advanced problem-solving and critical thinking by gathering and interpreting data, analysing complex and ambiguous issues. Considers interdependencies, risks, and evidence to develop effective recommendations, while balancing short-term and strategic objectives. 
• Budget and Resource Management: Accurately forecast, monitor, and control project expenditure. Proactively identify and addresses budget variances. Skilled in balancing resource demand with delivery capacity, ensuring the right skills are deployed at the right time to support successful project execution.
• Benefits Management and Value Realisation: Benefits are clearly defined, rigorously tracked, and successfully realised across projects. Champions a value-focused culture that integrates benefits into decision-making, governance, and performance measurement framework.
• Continuous Improvement: Share lessons learned, contribute to project management best practices, and strengthen project delivery standards across the team.

The knowledge, experience and qualifications you need

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex information clearly and persuasively to diverse audiences.
• Builds strong relationships through active listening, empathy, and tailored messaging across stakeholder groups.
• Skilled in facilitating meetings, delivering impactful presentations, and producing high-quality documentation that supports decision-making.
• Demonstrated successful delivering of complex projects end-to-end.
• Expertise in the full project lifecycle and proven ability to manage multiple, cross-functional projects simultaneously.

The base

You'll be based at the Benchmark Head Office, within our Broadlands Business Campus near Horsham in West Sussex but will need to be present across our other offices, including the main Schroders headquarters in London. It has high standards and international reputation, without being in the city: a big, countryside campus means life will feel a little different. 

We support our offices by using cutting edge software and hardware and our spacious campus facilities mean there's a great working environment for the team. With an on-site restaurant, coffee shop and gym, our campus has much to offer. And commuters can relax on our dedicated regular shuttle bus to and from Horsham’s main line train station.