Project Manager

About you

Are you...

• a highly motivated and conscientious project manager who thrives on managing multiple concurrent projects.
• a strong communicator who enjoys shaping projects, setting direction with customers and stakeholder, and managing spend within budget constraints?
• organised and structured in your approach, ensuring tasks are delivered on schedule?

If so, you could be just what we are looking for...

The role

As a Project Manager at Heywood, you will lead internal and external development and implementation projects from initiation to competition, ensuring they meet or exceed key stakeholders’ expectations.

Your key focus will be to ensure that all projects are managed in line with Heywood’s framework to deliver to agreed quality, scope, time, budget and commercial terms.

Key responsibilities include:

• apply project lifecycle, method, processes, and procedures
• manage and coordinate all resources allocated to projects
• identify and quantify project risks and mitigating actions
• produce and maintain project status reports, plans and logs
• ensure the completion and sign-off of post project retrospectives
• collaborate with our Customer Relationship Manager team to ensure timely, accurate and coordinated communication with customers and key stakeholders
• encourage knowledge transfer and develop project management capability across the business
• maintain clear and open communication to align expectations and ensure teams are working towards a common goal
• track and manage project and programme budgets
• provide guidance and mentor other project managers in the team
• implement new ways of working and share them with the team.

About us

Heywood combines a passion for software with Agile methodologies to create modern software and data solutions and services for businesses, pension providers and third parties that help transform how their members and customers manage their lifelong financial journeys.

Working for an expanding established market leader, you will have a real voice to influence our evolution. Continued learning and progression is ingrained in our daily life, encouraged through a variety of forums from e-learning subscriptions and a monthly down-tools day (“Hive Day”) and communities of practice for learning and experimentation. Our open culture encourages wide participation and innovation.

We also reward our hard work through regular socials, organised by our people. Socials events include fiercely competitive bake-offs, Pride month office parties, sporting events, games nights and much more!

We are committed to a hybrid working model, combining remote and office-based working.

Discover more at https://www.heywood.co.uk/careers

EDI statement

As an equal opportunities’ employer, Heywood is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join Heywood.

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