Project Manager (Brand Modernisation Programme Marketing and Change Management)

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor.

We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders.

We are one of the world’s largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income.

Our Group Functions provide the services that all areas of the business need. This requires a talented and diverse team behind the scenes, who enable everyone at L&G to do what they do best. 

Joining us means helping to improve the lives of our customers and contributing to the success of the business every day.

We’re recruiting for a Project Manager to join us for a 12 month fixed term contract. You will support the successful management and delivery of the Brand Modernisation Programme across L&G, ensuring it meets business needs within agreed cost, time, and quality parameters. 

What you'll be doing:

• Project Delivery & Structure: Overseeing and delivering the L&G brand modernisation project by establishing and maintaining effective structures to monitor and control deliverables. This includes successfully evolving and implementing the project management plan, with a particular focus on project management across corporate functions including Legal/Compliance, Digital and HR. This will involve support at both the L&G Group level and for Asset Management, Retail and Institutional Retirement areas more specifically as required
• Financial & Resource Management: Monitoring and reviewing all aspects of project economics, including costs, staffing, resources, and risks. Ensure that governance arrangements are effective, supported by appropriate reporting
• Stakeholder Communication: Providing clear and timely communication to all stakeholders, including Senior Managers, to support informed decision-making and ensure the successful delivery of the project. Co-ordination with the transversal Communications workstream will be particularly important to both build internal advocacy for the programme and ensure unified, integrated externally communications
• Governance & Compliance: Ensuring adherence to agreed methodologies, standards, policies, and procedures to maintain strong governance. Sharing knowledge, providing feedback, and contributing ideas to drive continuous improvement
• Risk Management & Project Control: Implementing and actively using project control procedures to assess the impact of risks, issues, assumptions, and changes on costs, timelines, and resources. Report these findings to project sponsors for effective project management and control
• Service Delivery: Ensuring that project deliverables are robust, thorough, and effective without compromising the customer experience. Align with L&G’s commitment to Treating Customers Fairly (TCF)

Who we’re looking for:

• PRINCE2 Foundation and/or APM IC
• Understands the principles, methods, techniques and tools for the effective management of projects from initiation through to implementation. Example: PRINCE2 or APM I
• In-depth knowledge of L&G, its structure, business processes, and goals
• Demonstrable understanding of marketing and the L&G brand

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
• Healthcare Plan (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 (permanent employees only)
• 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

Legal & General is a leading financial services group and major global investor, named Britain’s Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.

We aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We strive to be open, mindful and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs.

If you’re open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.