Atos is seeking a Project Manager (Life and Pension) to deliver regulatory, contractual, and discretionary change projects for Atos Business Process Services clients.
As a Project Manager you will be expected to:
- Plan and scope projects to ensure appropriate detail and scrutiny from inception.
- Deliver end-to-end activities for regulatory, contractual, and discretionary change projects.
- Manage activity stream leads, including IT Solutions Design Managers, Risk Consultants, subject matter experts, and client-side stakeholders.
- Produce deliverables using the methodology being applied, including waterfall, small change, or agile, and appropriate best-practice toolsets.
- Lead sponsors and stakeholders while maintaining delivery behaviours reflecting confidence, transparency, and control.
- Follow the governance, controls, and repeatable processes of the EB Change portfolio, including reporting and budgetary tasks.
Relationships and responsibilities
The role may involve working with third-party suppliers, internal Atos suppliers, and client-side stakeholders. Internal relationships include operational business stakeholders, sponsors, Risk SMEs, and IT technical leads. The Project Manager is responsible for managing the project budget.
Key tasks
- Work on multiple projects simultaneously.
- Chair Working Delivery Groups.
- Provide succinct and up-to-date reporting.
- Manage escalations using appropriate governance, including RAID log items.
- Lead Business Analysts in information-gathering and analytical activities.
Skills
- Leading and motivating
- Full lifecycle understanding and competence
- Planning and forecasting
- Facilitation for risk and issue discovery
- Stakeholder management
- Communication and reporting
Required knowledge
- Project lifecycles and their deliverables
- Project delivery in the Life and Pensions sector, including a basic understanding of products, processes, and regulatory context
- Governance and RAID operation
- Business acceptance processes and test verification
Preferred experience and qualifications
- Five years of project management experience in an L&P or financial services context
- Regulatory and discretionary change delivery
- Risk and controls project delivery
- Formal project management training such as PRINCE2 or Agile
Essential criteria
To be eligible for SC clearance, you must have lived and worked in the UK continuously for the past five years.
Benefits
- Pension scheme with contributions matched up to 10%
- Private medical cover
- Income protection
- Life assurance
- 25 days paid leave plus national holidays
- Flexible benefits programme
Atos welcomes applicants from all backgrounds and life experiences and provides support and reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.