Royal London
Senior Project Manager

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Contract Type: Perm
Location: Alderley Edge (Glasgow also considered)
Working Style: Hybrid - 50% from home / 50% office based
Closing Date: 22nd September 2026
Right To Work: Only candidates who possess a valid right to work in the UK or Eligibility to work in Ireland will be able to undertake this role. Unfortunately, Royal London are unable to offer visa sponsorship.
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Project Manager to join our Long-Term Savings Regulatory Change team at Royal London.
You’ll lead complex regulatory change initiatives across pensions, protection and legacy customer propositions, bringing together business and technology teams to deliver important outcomes for our customers and the Group. Working within an established cross-functional team, you’ll take ownership from initiation through to delivery while engaging senior stakeholders and third-party partners.
More about the role:
- Lead complex regulatory change projects throughout the full delivery lifecycle, ensuring outcomes are achieved to agreed time, cost and quality expectations.
- Coordinate business and technology change across multiple teams, workstreams and customer propositions.
- Build clear plans, governance and reporting, managing dependencies, risks, issues, budgets and competing priorities.
- Engage and influence senior stakeholders, translating complex delivery information into clear decisions and actions.
- Build collaborative, commercial relationships with third-party suppliers to support delivery and maximise value.
- Challenge estimates, plans and delivery approaches, using your technical understanding to identify risks and make informed decisions.
- Promote continuous improvement and create an accountable, supportive delivery environment.
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More about you:
- Proven experience leading complex projects at Senior Project Manager level, ideally within financial services or another regulated environment.
- A strong track record of delivering initiatives that combine business and technology change across multiple functions.
- Experience managing substantial project budgets (2 to 5 million), multiple workstreams and complex interdependencies.
- Confident stakeholder management and influencing skills, including experience engaging at Director level or above.
- Sound understanding of software delivery environments and the ability to constructively challenge technical teams, plans and estimates.
- Experience managing third-party suppliers and holding partners accountable for delivery.
- Clear communication, judgement and organisational skills, with the ability to remain effective when priorities change.
- Pensions, regulatory change or wider financial services experience would be highly desirable.


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If you feel you’d be a great fit for Royal London but don’t meet every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you. If you meet most of the criteria and are keen to learn, we encourage you to apply.
About Royal London
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance.
Inclusion, diversity and belonging
We’re an inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.
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