IT Project Manager

Helping over ten million people around the world manage their savings, retirement plans and life insurance requires a lot of people behind the scenes.  It’s up to us in L&G Group functions – which includes our tech and digital teams, Group Finance, HR, Risk and Corporate Affairs – to provide the essential support services that all areas of the business need, here in the UK and overseas. Simply put, we enable everyone at Legal & General to do what they do best. That means we’re helping to improve our customers’ lives and contributing to the success of the business every day.  

We have an amazing opportunity for an IT Project Manager to join us in either Hove or London!

You’ll be responsible for management of the IT Infrastructure and transformation projects relating to the property and workplaces portfolio, playing a key role in the delivery of the transformation and business growth objectives of this division.

If you’re looking for your next challenge as an IT Project Manager then this could be the ideal next move for you!

What you'll be doing:

• Leading on project planning, budgeting, scheduling, controlling, and reporting activities ensuring that comprehensive project, quality, and risk plans are prepared and maintained, and issues are actively managed through to their successful resolution
• Delivering effective communication to all interested parties including stakeholders and Senior Managers to support effective decision-making and manage the smooth and integrated delivery of projects
• Managing and working closely with third party vendor staff ensuring that dependencies are identified and managed, and deliverables are achieved
• Taking end to end responsibility for the delivery of IT Infrastructure projects whilst establishing and maintaining fit for purpose governance to control and monitor the deliverables to the business
• Completing weekly and monthly reports on progress and RAIDS
• Ensuring project plans, deadlines and delivery dates and scope are communicated to the key contact for each business units in a timely manner and all documentation is safely stored in the appropriate project folder
• Identifying business opportunities through stakeholder relationships, shaping ideas, creating, and promoting solutions and gaining senior management buy-in
• Following agreed project methodologies and L&G practices to effectively monitor, co-ordinate and deliver projects and services to Group Technology and the Business Units

Who we're looking for:

• You’ll have experience of owning and running large infrastructure change projects/ programmes and reporting updates to stakeholders
• Experience with infrastructure projects relating to property/workplace would be a huge plus
• You’ll also be well versed in working with and managing outsourced suppliers, ensuring they deliver to their contractual obligations and timelines    
• A project management qualification
• IT service management qualification (ITIL) would be great!

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer: 

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes  
• Generous pension contribution  
• Life assurance   
• Private medical insurance (permanent employees only) 
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday 
• Competitive family leave 
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice 
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online   
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.

Since 1836, we’ve grown to become one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurance brands. 

We’re all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long term, and create value for our shareholders - helping to shape a better future for society and the planet.

We need people who share our ambitions, agility and entrepreneurial spirit to help us do it.

At L&G, you’ll find a balance that helps you be your best. Empowered by hybrid working, we’re supported by technology and workplaces that enable us to work effectively wherever we are. We come together in offices to collaborate and connect, and use time at home for individual, focused activities. And, when we achieve great things, we celebrate our success and reward strong performance.

Today, there’s over 10,000 of us, working towards our mission, with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as we grow L&G. Will you join us?

Great minds don’t have to think alike, so we welcome voices from all backgrounds. Bringing together people with different life experiences helps us build empathy with our customers and drive innovation.

We don’t just talk about it, we actively promote diversity and equitable opportunities for all. That means our employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status. In fact, we embrace every dimension of diversity to reflect the customers and communities we serve.

We think it’s important to create an inclusive environment where we can all belong, contribute and drive progress, where you can develop and grow, and be empowered. We want you to use your voice to help us build a better tomorrow.

We all work differently, and have different needs, which is why. we’re always open to discussing flexible working arrangements. Likewise, we’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs during our recruiting process.

So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.