SunLife UK
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Job Title: Project Manager
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Bristol with hybrid working
Flexible working: All roles are open to part-time, job-share, and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about flexible working here.
Salary and benefits: £60,000 - £70,000 plus an indicative bonus range of 16-32% private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more.
Who are we?
SunLife is a market leader in its core products with ambition to further diversify product and customer offerings to attract and retain new customers in the over 50s sector. Our vision is to offer customers simple, straightforward, affordable products and utilising effective, innovative marketing across multiple channels is one of the keys to our success. With 100 colleagues based in our vibrant central Bristol office, we have a thriving culture, a creative approach to our work, and we're fast-moving, passionate, and dedicated.
SunLife is part of Standard Life Group, the UK's largest long-term savings and retirement business. Across the group, Standard Life offers products and services to millions of customers through market-leading brands, supported by the scale, expertise, and financial strength of a FTSE 100 organisation.
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The role
As a member of our Change team, you will manage the delivery of business essential projects. Working across internal teams and external suppliers, you will ensure changes are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget, while partnering with project sponsors to realise expected business benefits and keeping stakeholders fully informed throughout the project lifecycle.
You will be responsible for producing robust project plans and documentation, building and motivating effective project teams, managing risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies, and ensuring projects are delivered in line with SunLife's change framework and quality standards.
The role requires excellent stakeholder management, clear communication, and strong commercial awareness, ensuring projects deliver measurable business outcomes while maintaining strong relationships across the business and supplier network.
What are we looking for?
We're looking for an experienced Project Manager with a strong track record of successfully delivering projects involving both internal stakeholders and external suppliers. You'll be organised, commercially aware, and confident managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
You'll thrive in a collaborative environment and be comfortable influencing and presenting to senior stakeholders. Most importantly, you'll be pragmatic, delivery-focused, and passionate about driving successful business change.
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- Previous Project Manager experience working with internal and external customers and suppliers.
- Proven track record of successful project delivery.
- Strong understanding of project management methodologies, including Waterfall and Agile.
- Experience presenting information and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
- Strong risk, issue, and dependency management capability.
- Project management qualification desirable.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
- Experience with Microsoft Azure, Adobe, or Salesforce would be advantageous.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Strong planning, analytical, and organisational abilities.
- Pragmatic approach with the ability to lead project teams with a strong delivery focus.
- Strong commercial awareness.
We want to hire the whole version of you.
We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we've advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we'd love to hear from you.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.
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