Job Description
About You
For a complete understanding of this opportunity, and what will be required to be a successful applicant, read on.
Are you…
- a highly motivated and conscientious Project Manager who thrives managing multiple concurrent projects?
- a strong communicator who enjoys shaping projects and setting the direction with customers and stakeholders?
- able to manage project spend in line with budget constraints?
- organised and structured in your approach, ensuring tasks complete on schedule?
If so, you could be just what we are looking for…
The Role
As a Project Manager at Heywood, you will be responsible for managing, from initiation through to completion, both internal and external development and implementation projects to meet/ exceed the main stakeholders’ agreed expectations.
You will key focus will be ensuring that that all projects are managed in line with Heywood’s framework to deliver to agreed quality, scope, time, budget and commercial terms.
Key roles and responsibilities
- applying project lifecycle, method, processes, and procedures
- managing and coordinating all resources allocated to projects
- identification and quantification of project risks and mitigating actions
- production and maintenance of project status reports, plans and logs
- ensuring the completion and sign-off of post project retrospectives
- collaborate with our Customer Relationship Management team to ensure timely, accurate and coordinated communication with customers and key stakeholders
- to encourage knowledge transfer and develop project management capability within the business
- Maintaining clear and open communication to ensure that expectations are aligned and teams are working to a common goal.
About Us
Heywood combines a passion for software with Agile methodologies to create modern software solutions for businesses, pension providers and third parties that help transform how their members 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 www.heywood.co.uk/careers