Wesleyan
Project Manager
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Project Manager
Salary: Up to £63,240, based on skills and experience
Contract Type: 12 Month Fixed Term Contract – 35 hours a week
Location: Hybrid working (office based in Birmingham) – typically 2 days in the office per week
Closing Date: Friday 21st August 2026
Shape Brighter Futures with Wesleyan
Established in 1841, Wesleyan helps trusted professionals—GPs, hospital doctors, dentists, and teachers—secure their financial future. Today, we’re proud to continue that mission with passion and purpose. If you’re looking for a role where your expertise makes a real impact, and you want to work in a culture that values collaboration, innovation, and integrity, we’d love to hear from you.
Find out more about who we are: About Wesleyan
Make a Difference in Transformation & Change
As a Project Manager within our Transformation & Change team, you will be responsible for the delivery of one or more of Wesleyan’s Business Change projects. To achieve this, our Project Managers are passionate about quality, about delivering on a right first time every time basis, about teamwork, and have the ability to influence all levels and across all areas of the business.
Your Impact
Our project managers are responsible for full end-to-end delivery of projects throughout the complete project lifecycle, including:
- Understanding the specific scope of each project and ensuring the appropriate project team and structure is mobilised to ensure its timely and successful delivery.
- Building robust, detailed business cases, including the clear identification and ownership of benefits to be delivered by their projects.
- Securing appropriate budget to deliver their projects and maintaining tight cost control throughout the lifecycle.
- Ensuring that the Wesleyan’s project life cycle is followed and all governance requirements are adhered to (including the effective identification and mitigation of project risks).
- Developing and maintaining detailed plans, adopting appropriate management processes to track project progress and for the early identification of issues and any necessary countermeasures.
- Building strong relationships with the project sponsor and all other key stakeholders and ensuring timely communication throughout the project.
- Ensuring all parts of the business are engaged as necessary and actively contribute to all elements of the project, including readiness for acceptance into ‘BAU’.
- Promoting the sharing and development of ‘best practice’ in project management techniques and ensuring ‘lessons learned’ are captured through effective reflection on project performance.
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The role is within the Change function of which the Head of Change is responsible and will report into a Senior Project Manager.
What You’ll Bring
- Proven experience of delivering on a variety of technology driven change projects.
- Proven experience of delivering projects ideally within a financial services environment and serving multiple stakeholders.
- Background in organisations of a similar size and structure.
- Direct responsibility for projects with individual budgets ranging from £500k to £1.5m.
- Ability to manage one or more projects concurrently, successfully managing different priorities.
- Experience managing business-facing projects with strong technical and/or regulatory / legislative components.
- Appropriate professional qualifications, minimum standard APMP or PRINCE2.
- Managing resource, budgets and multiple stakeholders across the project and other key business areas.
- Strong communication skills across all levels – from Board level outwards.
- Evidence of identifying and managing inter-project/programme dependencies.
- Evidence of successful completion of in-house project management training programmes.
- Competence in a range of MS applications – eg Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project.
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Benefits That Work for You
We believe rewards should reflect the life you live. Here’s what you can expect:
- Annual bonus to recognise your contribution.
- 28 days holiday (plus a culture day!) – rising to 30 days with service.
- Flexible hybrid working for better work-life balance.
- Company pension scheme – matched plus 2% (up to 10%).
- Free secure underground Birmingham city centre parking (subject to availability, weekend use included).
- Salary sacrifice schemes that help you provide the things that matter – to include PMI, Electric Vehicle Leasing and cashback on everyday essentials.
- Enhanced family leave and two volunteering days to give back to causes you care about.
Discover the full range of benefits: Wesleyan Careers Rewards
Why Wesleyan?
We’re building a culture where everyone belongs. Diversity isn’t just a policy—it’s part of who we are. Whatever your background, we want you to feel valued and empowered to thrive. We’re proud supporters of the ABI Making Flexible Work campaign, which means we’re open to discussing flexible working, job shares, and part-time options.
If you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, just let us know—we’re here to support you.
What to Know Before Applying
- Right to Work: We’re unable to provide VISA sponsorship, so you’ll need the legal right to live and work in the UK.
- Advert Closing: We typically advertise for two weeks but may close early if we receive a high volume of applications—apply early to avoid disappointment.
Ready to Shape Your Future?
Apply today and join us in creating brighter financial futures—for our customers, our members, and you.
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