Total 41 Manager level Business Management / Project / Planning job vacancies in Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH2 2BY

Business Development Manager
SALARY: £30,000 Basic + (£30,000 Guarantee for First Year) so £60k base year 1
Realistic OTE of £155k

The role of Business Development Manager is to develop new business opportunities for my client through working with Telemarketing and the Services Team and building your own referral network.

They are looking for a dynamic, motivated, high performing new Business Development professional, selling Employment Law and Health & Safety outsourcing solutions to the mid-market sector (30+ employee businesses).

Benefits for a Sales Executive include:

* Basic salary of £30k per annum + (£30,000 Guarantee for First Year)
* Company car or car allowance
* 25 days plus bank holidays and an extra day for your birthday
* An exciting role with great progression plans guaranteed

In return for this, we are looking for someone who has:

* 2 years plus track record of selling in a B2B environment (Industry experience NOT required).
* Confident in value based/consultative selling.
* Ability to sell to different audiences including Business Owners, Board of Directors and HR Managers.

Roles and responsibilities:

* Attending sales appointments booked by your Telemarketing partner.
* Working with the Head of Seminars to generate a quarterly seminar plan to maximise sales opportunities.
* Generating and attending meetings with potential introducers and referral partners.
* Self-generating new leads, appointments and referrals through day to day new business activity.
* Achieve quarterly sales targets.
* Accurately build, manage and maintain your sales pipeline.

If interested in the above opportunity apply ASAP for immediate consideration.

Search is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified applicants, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation or age.

We have a current opportunity for a Investment Project Manager on a permanent basis. The position can be based in Edinburgh or Glasgow. The organisation offers hybrid working where you will be based in the office 2 days per week with the rest being at home or on site. Travel throughout Scotland is required and a car allowance and mileage will be payable.

You will be expected to deliver and manage from inception to completion all capital investment projects for the organisation.

Main duties of the role will include:
* Undertaking surveys and the preparation of information relating to capital maintenance project
* The preparation of budget information relating to the projects allocated.
* Managing all capital maintenance projects allocated from the annual budget including roof coverings and kitchens & bathrooms
* Assisting with the sustainability policy and delivering agreed improvements.

Essential requirements for the role are:

* Relevant professional qualification in construction, surveying, maintenance, and/ or project management

* Experience of Project Managing fabric replacement/component replacement projects or refurbishment projects from inception to completion

If you are interested please apply as soon as possible.

Morgan Hunt is a multi-award-winning recruitment business for interim, contract and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies. Morgan Hunt is an equal opportunities employer. Job suitability is assessed on merit in accordance with the individual's skills, qualifications and abilities to perform the relevant duties required in a particular role.

Your new company
Our client is a leading refurbishment company with a very impressive track record in the delivery of high-profile refurbishment projects in Edinburgh and beyond. They have ambitious plans for growth in Edinburgh over the next 3 to 5 years and this is supported by an impressive existing pipeline of work. As their team grows, they are now seeking to appoint a Project Manager to their business to run a large refurbishment project (£11million) in the middle of Edinburgh.

Your new role
As Project Manager, you will be reporting directly to the Construction director, and you will be fully responsible for the delivery of this project from setting up site to final handover. You will be the operational lead on this project, managing your site team effectively while liaising effectively with your commercial team, ensuring the project is hitting its operational and financial targets. You will also be expected to work closely with a set of external stakeholders such as client reps, architects etc.


What you'll need to succeed
Our client is seeking a construction expert with a strong background in complex refurbishment projects in a city centre environment. Perhaps you have worked extensively as a Project Manager on large refurbishments already and are seeking your next project, but our client is also open to considering applications from experienced Site Managers seeking to step up into a Project Management position. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in developing positive site teams on-site and understand how to develop exceptional relationships with your supply chain, direct labour force and other stakeholders. You are ambitious and are seeking to take on more responsibility for a growing business with significant opportunities for development.


What you'll get in return
Our client is a supportive employer who has built up a strong reputation for delivering complex projects in their sector, so this is a great opportunity for someone to develop their skills in this space. An attractive salary and benefits will be paid to the successful candidate.


What you need to do now


If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.

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Your new company
Our client is a secure Scottish-owned builder with an exceptional reputation for the delivery of complex refurbishments in Scotland up to £30million. Due to project wins, they are now seeking to add an ambitious construction professional to their team. This role is operationally focused project manager.


Your new role
As Project Manager, you will be operationally responsible for the delivery of complex refurbishment projects. Depending on the size of the project, you could be working as part of a team or delivering the project yourself. Reporting to a Contracts Director, you will be responsible for deploying and managing your team of site managers and subcontractors in the delivery of refurbishment work on projects in Scotland. From managing and reviewing the construction programme to working with key external stakeholders such as architects, engineers and clients, you will play a key role in the delivery of these projects. As Project Manager, you will ensure a positive atmosphere is developed on-site, supporting company quality and health and safety policies.


What you'll need to succeed
Our clients are a good company who are proud of their employee retention and engagement levels, with people often spending large portions of their career working on this business. They are also proud of their ability to promote internally from project manager to contract manager and beyond. The ideal candidate would be a successful construction site manager or project manager well versed in the delivery of complex construction and refurbishment projects in Scotland. You understand this sector and have a good knowledge of the pitfalls and challenges of delivering successful projects in this space. Ideally, you will have a trade or degree background and enjoy working on high-end premium refurbishments. You must be an excellent communicator, comfortable holding meetings of key stakeholders and ensuring your employers' commercial interest is protected.


What you'll get in return
Our client is a fantastic employer with an exemplary level of staff retention and a whole host of successful projects behind them. They will pay a competitive benefit package with an electric car available (along with charging points) or car allowance and are known for offering their staff excellent opportunities for social engagement etc. Get in touch now for more information!


What you need to do now


If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.

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Your new company

This is the opportunity to join a well-respected independent accountancy firm based in Dunfermline. The firm offers a range of services including accounts, tax, payroll and corporate finance. The firm offers all staff strong career progression opportunities in a supportive, professional environment.

Your new role
In your new role, as a Business Services Manager, you will be responsible for duties including but not limited to:

* Planning and managing the timely and profitable completion of a portfolio of client work which may include year-end and management accounts, corporate and personal tax returns, VAT returns, management accounts, budgets and forecasts for selected clients, liaising with Client Relationship Managers and specialists across the business where required
* Review of assistants/seniors work, providing feedback and coaching
* Developing and maintaining strong relationships with clients, contacts and colleagues
* Engaging and consulting actively with our specialists, co-ordinating their involvement in advisory work and identifying cross-selling opportunities
* Dealing with ad-hoc client queries, telephone calls and meetings
* Portfolio management duties including client take on, fee preparation and WIP/debt management

What you'll need to succeed
The successful candidate will have experience working in a similar role within a practice environment. The ideal candidate will hold a professional qualification, be that ICAS or ACCA, and be comfortable managing a large portfolio of clients alongside a team of more junior employees. The successful candidate will also boast excellent written and verbal communication skills and possess a positive attitude towards their work.

What's in it for you?
This is the opportunity to join an excellent independent accountancy firm who can offer a competitive salary and benefits package. The firm offers hybrid and flexible working patterns to all staff alongside continuous career progression and development opportunities.

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.

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Join us as a Project Manager

• Join the Operations Centre of Excellence in a high profile and influential role that will deliver the five year strategic vision for Operations and transform the operational capability across the bank
• You’ll play a key role in driving change across Operations, and we’ll look to you to deliver goals on time, within budget and to the highest quality
• Hone your existing project management skills with excellent exposure at senior level and advance your career in this exciting, fast paced role in an innovative and inclusive team

In your new role, you’ll lead a work initiative, preparing, managing and providing reporting on all project plans, controls and resource plans. You’ll make sure that activities are in place to adequately prepare the business and engage all the appropriate stakeholders effectively to enable change to be implemented and handed over.

Additionally, you’ll be building and maintaining a positive working relationship with senior stakeholders across multiple franchises, domains and functions and at different levels of hierarchy and as part of this you’ll be required to produce executive level presentations. As well as this, you may lead a team of external suppliers, working closely with supply chain services for the appropriate supplier selection from our framework.

You’ll also be:

• Empowering and leading a team, often in multiple geographies, through the project lifecycle
• Identifying, tracking, managing and mitigating any project risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies
• Leading and defining project documentation and making sure that the solution clearly supports and is aligned to our strategic goals
• Tracking and reporting project costs and making sure that the project is completed in allotted budgets
• Making sure that all project deliverables satisfy the requirements and that they adhere to the agreed governance framework
• Shaping business cases or benefits realisation and securing funding via investment processes
• Addressing policy and control shortfalls and audit findings and implementing strategic solutions in response

You’ll need to hold an appropriate project management qualification, as well as have experience in change management. You’ll need experience of delivering change within a banking Operations team driving measurable business outcomes. You should be comfortable working with ambiguity and have the ability to pay keen attention to detail and a drive to understand emerging technical capabilities and how these might be leveraged by Operations.

It'll be ideal if you have experience of Agile processes and ceremonies as will be a familiarity with Model Risk governance.

You’ll also need:

• Experience of driving large scale automation or AI with a drive to understand emerging technical capabilities and how these might be leveraged by Operations
• Experience of analysing a broad range of data such as Operational, Technology, Finance and HR to support problem solving and decision making
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to produce executive level presentations
• Excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills with the ability to engage and communicate with multiple stakeholders at senior level across the bank
• Critical thinking skills, enabling you to cut through complexity, and make sound decisions and recommendations that are carefully balanced against risk

JOB TITLE: Next Gen Talent Planning and Delivery Manager

Salary: £57,546 - £63,940

HOURS: Full time

LOCATION(S): Leeds, Bristol, Edinburgh and Halifax

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

About this opportunity

A varied role working in an award winning, fast paced, and innovative team.
Reporting into the Group Proposition Lead for Next Gen Talent, this role provides a unique view into how we design, market, recruit, induct and develop industry leading Next Gen Talent programmes including graduate, apprentice, placement programmes as well as our school engagement strategy & ecosystem.

We are looking for someone who can manage the ambitious Next Generation Talent delivery plan, working cross team to pull all workstreams into one place and ensuring coordinated, smooth delivery across our team. The successful candidate will also be a driving force for delivering enhancements to the customer/colleague experience for the graduate & undergraduate programmes. All contributing to making Lloyds Banking Group an employer of choice for Next Gen Talent and building strong talent pipelines for our business.

If you love working in a fast paced, high impact team we'd love to hear from you.

Please note this role sits within in the on-programme part of the Next Gen Talent Team, not in the recruitment team.

Key Responsibilities

Project Management & Oversight

• Create and maintain detailed project plans outlining key milestones, timelines, and deliverables for activities such as induction, development events, cohort engagement activities, and roll-off processes.

• Establish effective reporting on KPIs for key stakeholders

• Coordinate our NGT impact reporting to tell a complete story of the impact of our proposition. YTD we have impacted almost 120,000 young people internally and externally.

• Working with Group Proposition lead to optimise team resource and budget associated with programme delivery.

• Coordinate with key internal stakeholders (including Next Gen Talent partners, recruitment, Learning) to ensure alignment and successful execution of all activities.

• Work with team to identify delivery risks and get mitigation strategies in place. Adjust project plans as necessary to accommodate changes in business needs or participant requirements.

• Drive continuous improvement in the planning and execution of activities, ensuring the programmes evolve in line with best practices and organisational goals and that effective retrospectives are undertaken.

• A successful candidate is likely to be experienced in both waterfall and agile project management.

On Programme Experience Delivery

• You will focus on optimising the on-programme experience, from induction to development and through to programme completion, ensuring that our early careers talent has a strong foundation and clear pathway within the organisation.

• Lead the planning, coordination, and delivery of key activities related to the Next Gen Talent programmes, ensuring they are executed on time and within scope.

• Lead the on-programme experience for Next Generation Talent, ensuring their journey is seamless and aligned with the organisation's strategic objectives.

• Implement effective listening strategies to ensure our we continue to put colleague experience at the heart of what we do when making enhancements to our offering

• Regularly review and improve the development and training framework, ensuring it meets both individual and business needs.

• Manage key milestones of the programme (e.g., rotations, performance reviews) to track and enhance progress.

• Foster a strong sense of community and belonging among Next Generation Talent cohorts, encouraging networking and collaboration.

• Ensure Line Managers are well-equipped with training, tools, and guidance to support and develop Next Gen Talent within their teams.

• Support next gen talent transitioning off the programme by assisting them in securing permanent roles within the organisation and making sure they are fully prepared for their next career step.

About us

If you think all banks are the same, you'd be wrong. We're an innovative, fast-changing business that's shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that's empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

What you'll need

• Project management experience

• Experience in looking at and designing colleague experience

• Experience in designing talent management programmes

• Personal line management or team leadership experience

• Excellent stakeholder skills, confident in interacting with senior stakeholders

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Experience in designing early careers talent programmes

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We're committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role.

We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you'd like an adjustment to the recruitment process just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch! We'd love to hear from you!

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Your new company
Our client is a leading refurbishment company with a very impressive track record in the delivery of high-profile refurbishment projects in Edinburgh and beyond. They have ambitious plans for growth in Edinburgh over the next 3 to 5 years and this is supported by an impressive existing pipeline of work. As their team grows, they are now seeking to appoint a Project Manager to their business to run a large refurbishment project (£11million) in the middle of Edinburgh.
Your new role
As Project Manager, you will be reporting directly to the Construction director, and you will be fully responsible for the delivery of this project from setting up site to final handover. You will be the operational lead on this project, managing your site team effectively while liaising effectively with your commercial team, ensuring the project is hitting its operational and financial targets. You will also be expected to work closely with a set of external stakeholders such as client reps, architects etc.


What you'll need to succeed
Our client is seeking a construction expert with a strong background in complex refurbishment projects in a city centre environment. Perhaps you have worked extensively as a Project Manager on large refurbishments already and are seeking your next project, but our client is also open to considering applications from experienced Site Managers seeking to step up into a Project Management position. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in developing positive site teams on-site and understand how to develop exceptional relationships with your supply chain, direct labour force and other stakeholders. You are ambitious and are seeking to take on more responsibility for a growing business with significant opportunities for development.


What you'll get in return
Our client is a supportive employer who has built up a strong reputation for delivering complex projects in their sector, so this is a great opportunity for someone to develop their skills in this space. An attractive salary and benefits will be paid to the successful candidate.


What you need to do now


If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.

Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk

Senior Project Manager

Who are Diligenta?

Diligenta's vision is to be acknowledged as Best in-class Platform based Life and Pensions Administration Service provider. Customer service is at the heart of everything we do and our aim is to transform our clients' operations. A business that has been described as 'home' by existing employees, we drive a culture that is founded on positive change and development.

The Opportunity

We have an opportunity for a Senior Project Manager to join our team in Stirling, working on a hybrid basis. This role will be to manage and deliver one or more programme work-streams in order to meet business objectives.

The role will have potential to work across a variety of different projects stretching across business, operation and IT change.

You'll be:

• Led projects or work streams within larger programs, ensuring everything is completed on time, within budget, and according to the plan.
• Apply the appropriate project management methods, including planning, scheduling, monitoring, and managing risks and issues.
• Distil complex information or data to identify root issues or see the bigger picture.
• Establish an effective project team, handling recruiting, development, management, and motivation.
• Manage budget reporting, forecasting, and expenditures for projects.
• Plan and manage resources needed for project delivery, including developing contingency plans.
• Maintain good relationships with stakeholders and key customers, ensuring project delivery meets their requirements.

You should apply if you:

• Have worked in Life and Pensions (wider FS acceptable)
• Proven experience in delivering large projects and programs.
• Skilled in managing and motivating both specialist and non-specialist staff.

• Experienced in handling medium to high-scale and/or medium to high-risk projects, especially in commercial outsourcing or financial services.
• Comfortable managing multiple cross-functional stakeholders, both internally and externally.
• Versatile with a background in various disciplines and able to quickly learn new areas and build credibility with professionals from different fields.
• In-depth experience in Life and Pensions operations, with a strong understanding of its internal functions.

Benefits:

• Company pension scheme
• 25 days holidays + 8 bank holidays
• Gain professional accreditation on completion at no extra cost through our bespoke 24/7 professionally accredited online learning and development tools
• Access to our Confidential Helpline is available to be used by you and your family
• Discretionary annual bonus

Business Development Manager (M8 Corridor)

SALARY: £30,000 Basic + (£30,000 Guarantee for First Year)
Realistic: OTE £90,000 (totally uncapped) Top Earners in excess of £150k

The role of Business Development Manager is to develop new business opportunities for my client through working with Telemarketing and the Services Team and building your own referral network.

They are looking for a dynamic, motivated, high performing new Business Development professional, selling Employment Law and Health & Safety outsourcing solutions to the mid-market sector (30+ employee businesses).

Benefits for a Sales Executive include:
* Basic salary of £30k per annum + (£30,000 Guarantee for First Year)
* Company car or car allowance
* 25 days plus bank holidays and an extra day for your birthday
* An exciting role with great progression plans guaranteed

In return for this, we are looking for someone who has:
* 2 years plus track record of selling in a B2B environment (Industry experience NOT required).
* Confident in value based/consultative selling.
* Ability to sell to different audiences including Business Owners, Board of Directors and HR Managers.

Roles and responsibilities:
* Attending sales appointments booked by your Telemarketing partner.
* Working with the Head of Seminars to generate a quarterly seminar plan to maximise sales opportunities.
* Generating and attending meetings with potential introducers and referral partners.
* Self-generating new leads, appointments and referrals through day to day new business activity.
* Achieve quarterly sales targets.
* Accurately build, manage and maintain your sales pipeline.

If interested in the above opportunity apply ASAP for immediate consideration.

Search is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified applicants, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation or age.

Optical Area Sales Manager job in Scotland. Zest Optical are currently looking to recruit an Area Sales Manager for a leading organisation in Optical Diagnostic equipment. The purpose of this role is to build strong business relationships with customers in the ophthalmology and optical market across Scotland (ideal candidate location Edinburgh or Glasgow).

The Area Sales Manager will manage customers in Scotland to achieve mutually agreed yearly sales and profit targets, and maximise opportunities by effective territory management and securing and building long term relationships with customer groups in the NHS, Universities and Private Optical Practices.

Area Sales Manager - Role

• Achieve mutually agreed targets and ASPs by selling optical diagnostic products to all customer groups.
• Demonstrate a superior knowledge of the skills in selling, negotiating, presenting and teaching by achieving sales and by attending training courses.
• Gain and maintain a working knowledge of the functions of ophthalmology and optometry.
• Reach an acceptable level of knowledge of competitor's instruments, through training courses and research.
• Secure and build positive relationships with all customer groups in order to secure long term business.
• Ability to spot, recommend and cultivate KOL's
• Promotion of the Companies Educational events in line with company strategies

Area Sales Manager - Requirements

• Proven sales professional within optical diagnostic equipment
• Thorough understanding of the NHS environment
• Ability to communicate at all levels both verbally and in writing
• Ability to effectively analyse and interpret data

Area Sales Manager - Salary

• Base salary up to £45k plus excellent bonus scheme
• Company car and a range of additional benefits

To avoid missing out on this opportunity, please click on the Apply Now link below.

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Business Manager
Various Primary Schools

Salary: £36,312 - £42,717 (pro rata for part time and sessional)
Hours: 18 per week, 40 weeks sessional

Supporting one of various primary schools across the city. All posts will be based onsite and include schools in the west side of the city, Dalmeny Primary, Pirniehall Primary and Tollcross Primary.

Candidates will be considered for all Primary Business Manager posts currently available with a single application.

We are seeking a dynamic, creative problem solvers to support each school onsite and work closely with the Head Teacher.

The main role of a Business Manager is to support the Headteacher in all non-curricular aspects of school management, ensuring these aspects operate effectively, including Finance, HR, Information Governance, Resources, Facilities, Information Technology and Health and Safety and the successful candidate should have experience in these areas. An ability to identify and resolve a wide range of challenges to ensure operational efficiency across the school, will be key to this role.

With a large staff team in each of our schools, the successful candidates will require strong leadership skills to support, guide and develop the individuals to work effectively together.

For full details of Business Manager responsibilities please refer to the attached Job Profile.

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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Lead Project Manager

Who are Diligenta?

Diligenta's vision is to be acknowledged as Best in-class Platform based Life and Pensions Administration Service provider. Customer service is at the heart of everything we do, and our aim is to transform our clients' operations. A business that has been described as 'home' by existing employees, we drive a culture that is founded on positive change and development.

The Opportunity

We are recruiting this role due to a wide range of new change initiatives with one of our largest clients. You will manage and deliver multiple projects or programme work-streams to meet business objectives. The role is best suited for an experienced Senior PM looking to step up or an established Lead PM - the successful candidate will also need to have background in release management.

It is based in Edinburgh and will be hybrid so 2/3 days a week at home is acceptable.

You'll be:

• Manage the successful projects / workstreams within the agreed time, cost and quality criteria to ensure meets the business requirements and stakeholder expectations.

• Analyse the performance of the projects, recommend and implement corrective action to cover gaps

• Develop and maintain appropriate project disciplines and controls to ensure successful and controlled project delivery

• Identify, evaluate and manage risks to the project, implementing appropriate actions to mitigate risk using risk management techniques

• Produce project documentation in line with the agreed methodology and provide regular, timely and accurate updates on progress

• Provide management direction and leadership to the project team to ensure successful delivery

• Manage and deliver projects in line with the BaNCS release approach and process

You should apply if you:

• An experienced project manager with an excellent understanding of project management techniques and disciplines
• Experience of management and motivation of a team of specialist and non-specialist staff
• Experience of managing medium to high scale and / or medium to high risk projects in a commercial outsource organisation and / or financial services environment.
• Has experience of managing multiple cross-functional stakeholders, both internal and external
• Multi-disciplinary experience and has demonstrated ability to quickly come up to speed on new areas, to quickly build credibility with professionals from other disciplines
• Has driven business solution identification and project initiation
• Has depth and breadth of experience of Life + Pensions operation and a strong knowledge of its internal functions.
• Gain professional accreditation on completion at no extra cost through our bespoke 24/7 professionally accredited online learning and development tools
• Develop your career through a wider global organisation of the TCS family

We have a current opportunity for a Investment Project Manager on a permanent basis. The position can be based in Edinburgh or Glasgow. The organisation offers hybrid working where you will be based in the office 2 days per week with the rest being at home or on site. Travel throughout Scotland is required and a car allowance and mileage will be payable.

You will be expected to deliver and manage from inception to completion all capital investment projects for the organisation.

Main duties of the role will include:
* Undertaking surveys and the preparation of information relating to capital maintenance project
* The preparation of budget information relating to the projects allocated.
* Managing all capital maintenance projects allocated from the annual budget including roof coverings and kitchens & bathrooms
* Assisting with the sustainability policy and delivering agreed improvements.

Essential requirements for the role are:
* Relevant professional qualification in construction, surveying, maintenance, and/ or project management
* Experience in a similar or related role
* Experience in managing projects and financial monitoring and reporting

If you are interested please apply as soon as possible.

Morgan Hunt is a multi-award-winning recruitment business for interim, contract and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies. Morgan Hunt is an equal opportunities employer. Job suitability is assessed on merit in accordance with the individual's skills, qualifications and abilities to perform the relevant duties required in a particular role.

Your new role
As Senior Project Manager you will be responsible for the completion and successful delivery of a large refurbishment project in the middle of Edinburgh. From working with your client to establish a positive and collaborative relationship to establishing an experienced and competent operations team onsite, you will be fundamental to the success of this project. You will work closely with the commercial and operations team to ensure works are completed in line with program and budget and your superior construction knowledge and experience will drive quality, competency and safety through this project.


What you'll need to succeed
This project has 6 months to completion and is a large refurbishment project in the middle of Edinburgh. You will have deep expertise in the delivery of complex and challenging construction projects, and you have the ability to get up and running on a project quickly. Ideally, you will be from a trade or degree background with a strong pedigree in site and project management and have strong leadership and management ability.


What you'll get in return
This project has approx 6 months to completion and will be challenging. A very attractive daily rate in line with the demands of the project will be paid to the successful candidate.


What you need to do now


If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk