Pensions Project Manager - DB/DC Pensions & Regulatory Change

Job Overview

You will lead pensions-related projects from initial strategy and planning through to delivery, coordinating multiple workstreams, business teams and third parties. This is a client-facing role requiring solid occupational pensions knowledge and hands-on project delivery experience, including work supporting the wider Pensions Dashboards programme.

Responsibilities

• Deliver projects to critical deadlines, within agreed scope and budget, managing out-of-scope activity and additional costs with clients.
• Define project scope and goals, maintain delivery plans and manage change requests, RAID logs, budgets and resource demand.
• Coordinate cross-functional, onshore and offshore teams and third-party suppliers across multiple client projects.
• Monitor delivery performance, ensuring compliant, high-quality and cost-effective outcomes.
• Lead project governance, identify dependencies and resolve risks and issues early.
• Provide delivery updates to client steering committees and programme or portfolio management.
• Lead client planning, requirements and technical workshops, and maintain strong client relationships.
• Support the Pensions Dashboards programme by sharing solutions and lessons learned to enable compliant delivery across outsourcing clients.
• Maintain comprehensive project documentation.

Requirements

• At least five years of proven Project Manager experience.
• Understanding of occupational pensions, including defined benefit (DB) and defined contribution (DC) benefits.
• Proven experience delivering technical changes to meet regulatory requirements and compliance deadlines.
• Strong project governance, planning, budget management and risk and issue management skills.
• Demonstrable leadership of cross-functional teams and successful project outcomes.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management and client-facing skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, attention to detail and ability to identify dependencies and develop mitigation plans.
• Ability to learn new technology and tools and share best practice.

Nice to Have

• PRINCE2 experience or qualification.
• Project management experience within a pensions administration or outsourcing environment.