Saragossa
Project Manager - Private Equity
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Rate: £700pd outside IR36
Longevity: 6 months rolling
Location: City of London
This is a delivery-first project management role with strong PMO and governance capability.
The successful candidate will lead and deliver business-led transformation and operational projects on behalf of the COO, while also helping to establish the governance, reporting, and PMO infrastructure needed to support a new function. The role requires someone who can operate independently, bring structure to ambiguity, and translate senior-level priorities into a clear transformation plan with executable actions.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and deliver business-led transformation and operational projects for the COO Office.
- Distill meetings, actions, and strategic priorities into a coherent transformation roadmap.
- Drive execution against agreed plans, milestones, actions, and outcomes.
- Stand up PMO and governance infrastructure from scratch, including:
- templates
- frameworks
- RAID logs
- reporting cadences
- tracking and status reporting
- Calibrate governance appropriately for an entrepreneurial, fast-moving environment.
- Engage directly with senior stakeholders to secure sponsorship, alignment, and buy-in.
- Support organisational and operating model work arising from broader business reviews.
- Act as a bridge between strategic narrative and delivery detail, ensuring communications remain focused on business outcomes.
- Help define what sits within COO-led business transformation versus technology-led change as the function develops.
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Required Skills & Experience
- Circa 10+ years of relevant experience.
- Must have private markets, private assets, or private equity experience.
- Strong project management background with hands-on delivery ownership.
- Proven PMO / governance capability as a supporting strength, not the primary identity.
- Experience establishing PMO or governance structures from scratch.
- Strong operational or business transformation experience.
- Senior stakeholder management experience across cross-functional teams.
- Comfortable working in ambiguity and building new processes and structures.
- Private markets / alternative assets experience is essential.
- Experience in listed/public fund management alone is not considered a sufficient match.
- Ability to work independently without close supervision.
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Nice to Have
- Experience supporting organisational design or operating model work.
- Experience shaping governance in an entrepreneurial or lightly structured environment.
- Exposure to finance transformation or similar business-led change programmes.
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