Project Manager
- London
- Full-time
- Affordable Homes
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Do you share our passion for creating a safe, secure, and affordable place for everyone to call home? That's exactly what we're working towards at Affordable Homes. With a fast-growing pipeline, we collaborate with well-known developers, housing associations and public sector bodies across the country to drive new investment into the affordable housing sector.
As part of the wider Legal & General Group, our heritage goes back over 180 years, with a solid reputation as one of the leading financial services groups. We are pioneering institutional investment into the housing sector, whilst providing excellent service and quality homes.
Focusing primarily on the Shared Ownership and affordable rent markets, we strive to be the UK’s leading private affordable housing provider, known for excellent service and quality homes.
Here at Legal and General Affordable Homes we are excited to be recruiting for a dynamic and experienced Project Manager to run the delivery of strategic initiatives that will shape the future of housing for our business, our partners and our customers. This is a unique opportunity to play a crucial role in managing the successful delivery of medium/large projects (change initiatives) You will be responsible for all aspects of project management from defining the requirements of the project, managing the budget for delivery, create and agree the project plan as well as and creating and maintaining a governance framework for delivery. At all times you will work closely with colleagues in other LGAH departments and external stakeholder so that benefit realisation is maximised.
What you'll be doing:
- Defining and managing project plans and schedules ensuring accurate estimate of cost, time and resource requirements.
- Supporting the Project Sponsor with the identification of the strategic objectives of the project.
- Planning and controlling the finances and budgets for change initiatives.
- Leading discovery and design workshops to drive successful execution of projects.
- Identifying and managing the resources needed for change initiative(s) from internal and/or external providers.
- Develop and apply quality management and governance structures that define clear roles, responsibilities and accountabilities for delivery of change initiative activities
- Reporting on progress to relevant project board/governance forums that align with organisational best practice.
- Act as a role model fostering excellent team spirit in the project delivery team, providing vision and purpose for the delivery and aligning/defining roles and responsibilities if needed
Who we're looking for:
- Previous experience of delivering medium/large, strategic projects.
- The ability to manage concurrent projects successfully from inception to closure.
- Understanding of Project & Change Management methodologies such as Agile, Waterfall, SCRUM, PROSCI ADKAR.
- Experience working with technology platforms (Salesforce specifically would be ideal), within a business change context.
- Experience of working in the Affordable Housing / Housing Management sector is highly desirable.
- An engaging style and the ability to communicate effectively with colleagues across the business.
- Strong logical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex business requirements into actionable solutions.
- Exceptional communication, relationship building and management skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate and influence stakeholders at all levels.
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
- 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
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.
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