Digital Project Manager

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VN-10450

Permanent

Cardiff

competitive

30 November 2018

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

The management of digital projects to meet identified business needs, acquiring and utilising the necessary resources and skills, within agreed parameter of cost, timescales and quality.

  1. Takes end to end responsibility for the delivery of high complex digital projects or a medium project portfolio, establishing and maintaining the correct structures to control and monitor the deliverables to the business to realise the benefits as defined in the Business Case.
  2. Leads project planning, scheduling, controlling and reporting activities ensuring that comprehensive project, quality and risk plans are prepared and actively managed through to resolution - dependent on the project delivery method, e.g. waterfall, Agile.
  3. Delivers effective communication to all stakeholders to support effective decision-making and manage the smooth and integrated delivery of projects. 
  4. Manages third party relationships ensures that dependencies are identified and managed and deliverables are achieved as defined in the project documentation.
  5. Determines, monitors and reviews all project economics, including costs, staffing requirements, project resources, and project risk, ensuring that there are appropriate and effective governance arrangements, supported by appropriate reporting.
  6. Identifies, secures and manages project resources to achieve project and organisational objectives in line with the project schedule, approved funding and within expected quality and timescales.
  7. Demonstrates compliance with agreed methodology, standards, policies and procedures to ensure governance.
  8. To take the lead in all matters with regard to the management of employees, ensuring that management discretion is used in a consistent manner and that the area follows the Group's policies and procedures including the Partnership Agreement to maximise business performance.
  1. Project Management Delivery - extensive experience of end to end project delivery including experience of agile methodology.
  2. Corporate, Industry and professional Governance - Is proficient in the standards, policies and procedures and risk frameworks utilised at L&G.
  3. Project Management Methodology - Is proficient in principles, methods, techniques and tools for the effective management of projects from initiation to implementation, e.g. Agile, PRINCE2, MSP or APM. 
  4. Budgetary Control - Is proficient in the principles, methods, techniques and tools for the preparation and monitoring of budgets.
  5. Contracts management - is proficient with methods and techniques for selection and managing contracts to ensure third parties adhere to agreed contract requirements.

Whatever your role, we reward ability, performance and attitude with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Our employees have a wide range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, life assurance, 25 days' holiday (plus one day after two years), private medical insurance, performance related bonuses, a variety of share schemes, discounts at both a huge range of high street stores and our own great products, your hard work will be rewarded when you join us.

About L&G

Working here is about being there for our customers; we’re available should the worst happen and we work together to enable social and financial equality across the UK. But it’s also about you –how you develop and what you can achieve. We’ll help your talent thrive in an environment where you’ll be supported to work flexibly and autonomously, sharing in our success and rewarded for a great performance with a generous benefits package.

About the business area

From HR and Digital teams through to Group Finance, Risk and Corporate Comms – our Group function support our businesses across the UK and abroad. Delivering essential services and activities that have a real impact on our business and our customers lives, we enable our people to do what they do best, contributing to delivering a great customer service, profitability and strategic growth.

 

About L&G

Working here is about being there for our customers; we’re available should the worst happen and we work together to enable social and financial equality across the UK. But it’s also about you –how you develop and what you can achieve. We’ll help your talent thrive in an environment where you’ll be supported to work flexibly and autonomously, sharing in our success and rewarded for a great performance with a generous benefits package.

About the business area

From HR and Digital teams through to Group Finance, Risk and Corporate Comms – our Group function support our businesses across the UK and abroad. Delivering essential services and activities that have a real impact on our business and our customers lives, we enable our people to do what they do best, contributing to delivering a great customer service, profitability and strategic growth.