Synchronicity Group
Pre-Transaction Project Manager
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Pre-Transaction Project Manager | Leading UK Pensions Provider
Take UK DB transactions from pipeline to completion.
Our client is a well-established UK pensions provider with a strong pipeline of DB transactions and ambitious plans for growth. They need someone to get those deals over the line.
This is a hands-on, late-stage execution role for someone who thrives on the intensity of a deal and takes ownership without being asked.
What you’ll do:
- Chair twice-weekly pipeline catch-ups with the business development team, taking each live case through where it stands and what’s blocking it
- Join meetings with brokers and schemes considering a transaction, so you understand what’s happening and keep everyone in the loop
- Take schemes from “likely to transact in the next 6-12 months” through to completion, keeping every deal on time
- Pull together answers from across the business when actuaries, brokers and lawyers come with questions
- Keep a close grip on the detail in the final stretch: the legal workstream, asset transfers and the transaction tracker
- Work with brokers who are pushing hard to move things along, and be the person who keeps momentum up
- Take the existing templates and trackers and adapt them. There’s a good base to build on, but you’ll have the freedom to improve it
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What you’ll bring:
- 3-4 years’ experience of UK DB buy-in, buyout or similar transactions, having been through the process end to end a couple of times
- A background at an employee benefit consultancy, or in-house at a bulk annuity or other pensions provider
- Credibility with actuaries, lawyers, brokers and trustees
- A track record of running several deals at once to fixed deadlines
- A self-starter’s mindset: you spot problems early, make decisions and keep things moving
- Comfort in a fast-paced, sometimes intense environment
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Nice to have:
- Experience of endgame or other complex DB transactions; PRINCE2, APM or MSP.
Why this role?
- A real opportunity to shape how a growing transaction function works, with a live pipeline from day one.
- Real ownership. You won’t be a note-taker on someone else’s project
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