Project Manager

About the role

As a Project Manager within the Investment Value Stream at St. James’s Place, you will play a pivotal role in delivering strategic change across our investment platforms, processes, and technology landscape. Working at the heart of a dynamic and evolving investment business, you will coordinate complex initiatives, drive operational improvements, and support the delivery of innovative solutions that enhance investment outcomes and client experience.

This is an exciting opportunity to join an ambitious team committed to excellence, helping shape the future of our investment proposition and contributing to the delivery of world-class results. What you'll be doing: Manage business projects from initiation to implementation, ensuring they meet user requirements with flawless execution.

Prepare and present progress reports, issues, and budgets to the steering committee. Assess workloads and expenses for project activities and tasks. Develop and maintain positive relationships with key collaborators. Liaise with third parties to align deliverables and track achievements. Support the coordination of user acceptance testing and development of test strategies and plans.

Provide on-the-job training, support, and mentorship to less experienced colleagues.

About you

You will be an experienced Project Manager with a proven track record of working within Investment Management across a range of sizes and complexities. You will have experience managing end-to-end project lifecycles, from requirements gathering and planning through to implementation, testing, and post-delivery support.

With strong stakeholder management skills, you will build effective relationships across business and technical teams, working closely with engineers, architects, vendors, and senior leaders to ensure successful project outcomes. You will be adept at managing project plans, budgets, risks, issues, dependencies, and governance, while maintaining clear communication with all stakeholders.

Essential Criteria: Strong Investment Management / Asset Management experience, with a practical understanding of front, middle and back-office investment processes, ideally including fund operations, investment risk, regulatory change, data, fund accounting and/or investment platforms. Strong third-party/vendor delivery experience, comfortable managing delivery across external technology and service providers alongside internal SJP teams.

Proven delivery of complex investment change projects, taking initiatives from mobilisation and requirements through delivery, testing, implementation and business readiness, with strong control of plans, dependencies, risks, issues and milestones. The IVS environment includes projects with significant cross-project dependencies and regulatory/business outcomes.

Strong senior stakeholder and cross-functional leadership, able to coordinate Investment, Operations, Technology, Risk, Compliance, Procurement and external suppliers and drive issues and decisions through to resolution. Desirable Criteria: Experience in the financial services industry. Certification in project management methodologies (e.

g., PRINCE2, PMP). Awareness of the different project delivery approaches (eg Agile/Waterfall)