LGPS Central
Asset Transitions Manager
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Join LGPS Central at a pivotal moment, where investment meets long term impact.
The Asset Transitions Manager will manage the planning, governance, delivery, reporting, and coordination of fund launch and asset transition activity within LGPS Central.
The postholder will work collaboratively with the wider transition team and internal/external stakeholders to manage the successful delivery of transitions.
This role provides structure and consistency across transition activities, ensuring plans, RAID logs, action trackers, governance packs, and reporting are maintained to a high standard, whilst managing the delivery of the fund launches and transitions.
This is a great opportunity for someone with project management experience and/or asset transition and fund launch experience to develop their skills within a professional, purpose-led, and growing organisation.
What you’ll be doing:
- Manage the planning, coordination, and delivery of fund launches and asset transition activity.
- Engage with internal and external stakeholders on the planning, scheduling, and delivery of fund launch and asset transition activity.
- Support the definition of transition scope, deliverables, dependencies, milestones, readiness criteria, and implementation requirements.
- Prepare regular reports and updates for Committees, governance forums, transition meetings, and Client meetings, demonstrating good attention to detail and accuracy.
- Facilitate planning meetings, readiness reviews, and implementation meetings with internal and external stakeholders.
- Facilitate meetings with Clients ensuring supporting documentation is clear, precise, and fit for purpose.
- Establish clear requirements, deliverables, roles, and responsibilities with third parties to ensure alignment with LGPSC governance, operating model, and control requirements.
- Maintain detailed plans, action logs, RAID logs, issue trackers, decision logs, and readiness documentation.
- Troubleshoot and resolve a variety of transition, operational, and process issues, escalating where appropriate.
- Identify risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies, supporting the formulation and tracking of mitigating or resolving actions.
- Assurance – ensuring all programme documentation is in place for internal and external audit reviews, governance checkpoints, and compliance requirements.
- Support operational readiness activity, including readiness assessments, implementation checklists, control reviews, and post-transition lessons learned.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of fund launch and asset transition processes, templates, controls, and reporting standards.
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About us
LGPS Central (LGPSC) Ltd is the FCA regulated asset manager for fourteen local authority pension funds across the Midlands. LGPSC is jointly owned on an equal shares basis by those Partner Funds, and it is responsible for managing £100bn+ of their assets. It is one of six Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) asset pools in the UK.
LGPS Central’s Partner Funds are:
- Cheshire Pension Fund
- Derbyshire Pension Fund
- Leicestershire Pension Fund
- Nottinghamshire Pension Fund
- Shropshire Pension Fund
- Staffordshire Pension Fund
- West Midlands Pension Fund
- Worcestershire Pension Fund
- Gloucestershire Pension Fund
- Hampshire Pension Fund
- Suffolk County Council
- Wiltshire Pension Fund
- Norfolk Pension Fund
- Oxfordshire Pension Fund
The Company is committed to responsible investment and has made responsible investment a core part of the investment process in every asset class.
LGPS Central offers a friendly and diverse, hybrid working environment with a range of employee benefits. The Company moved to new premises at i9, Wolverhampton Interchange in January 2022, close to local transport links.
Our objective is to be a leading investment management company working with and for our Partner Funds. With a focus on value for money and performance, we aspire to be one of the best because this is how we will deliver the superior investment returns and low costs for our Partner Funds.
Requirements
Essential
- 5+ years’ experience working in a project management role, ideally within a professional, financial services, or regulated environment.
- Highly organised, able to prioritise effectively, and work accurately towards deadlines across multiple concurrent activities.
- Excellent IT and MS Office skills including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and knowledge of project planning tools such as MS Project.
- First-class interpersonal and communication skills to work across teams.
- Ability to work with multiple dependencies and time-critical activities, escalating risks and issues appropriately.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with confidence engaging stakeholders at all levels.
- Excellent organisational skills.
- Experience of action logging, issue tracking, risk management, and tracking activities through to completion.
- Effective time management – manages personal workload effectively, has the ability to work under pressure, and sets realistic and achievable targets and delivers to those targets.
- Effectively challenge stakeholders for activities related to delivery.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to produce high-quality documentation suitable for senior governance and client-facing forums.
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Desirable
- Experience managing asset transitions, fund launches, investment change, or operational readiness activity in financial services, pensions, or asset management.
- Track record of engaging portfolio managers and external stakeholders.
- Understanding of asset transitions, portfolio onboarding, fund launches, custody arrangements, investment operations, and operational readiness desirable.
- Understanding of benefits tracking and post-project review processes.
- Worked in Financial Services, ideally Investment Management.
Qualifications:
- Degree level or equivalent
- PRINCE2 Foundation or equivalent project management qualification desirable.
- Investment operations, asset management, or pensions-related qualification desirable but not essential.
What do we offer?
We are proud to provide our people with a premium and exclusive benefits package and we are continually improving the rewards we offer. Here are a few of the valuable rewards that you will enjoy:
- Competitive salary
- An enhanced and generous Pension Scheme
- 30 days' paid holiday plus bank holidays
- 2 days paid volunteering days
- An extra paid Company Day in addition to paid holidays
- Excellent Learning & Development Opportunities
- Welfare and Family-friendly policies
- Enhanced pay for new parents
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme 24/7 Health & Wellbeing Support
- Vitality Private Medical Insurance
- Hybrid Working
- Company Service Awards
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Company Electric Vehicle Scheme
- Winner of the Cultural Awareness Initiative of the Year FT Advisors Diversity in Finance Awards 2023
- Winner of Diversity and Inclusion Award LAPF In Investments Award 2023
- Winner of LAPF Investment Innovation
- Winner of Pool of the Year 2025
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