Job Description
Job Title: Senior Project Manager
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Alderley Edge
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Closing date: 19th June 2026
We have a unique opportunity to offer a new Senior Project Manager role aligned to Digital within the Chief Operating Office that will help shape the future of Royal London.
Our Chief Operating Office (COO) works across Royal London to help deliver the Group’s strategic ambitions. We work in partnership to deliver operational excellence, drive innovation, enhance customer experience, and protect our business from threats impacting our industry.
We are the largest business unit within Royal London, bringing together thousands of colleagues to look after millions of customers to deliver great outcomes for customers. Our business focuses on aligning colleagues, applications and projects with our three business value streams: Long Term Savings, Protection & Equity Release, and Long-Standing Customers & Annuities, led by our Chief Information Officers, our Shared Service Platforms and Enabling Teams. This role sits within the Digital Office.
One of Royal London’s strategic goals is to be a ‘Digital-First’ organisation with a frictionless customer experience. As a member of the Digital team, you will help realise this ambition. Our projects will improve the customer journeys on our Mobile application and both customer and adviser web portal journeys as well as projects to increase efficiency of our operations. You will be part of an exciting, growing team.
About the role
- Manage complex initiatives that span one or multiple lines of business.
- Full project life cycle management from initiation to deployment, with proven ability to operate at different stages of the project cycle simultaneously.
- Working closely with teams on technical proof of concepts to prove value, followed by adoption/migration as appropriate.
- Input into and support our technical strategy, roadmap and prioritisation working in partnership with our Principal Engineer and technical leads.
- Provide leadership for project team by coaching and motivating team members to meet project goals, to ensure they realise their potential.
- Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating across leadership
- Understand interdependencies between technology, operations and business needs.
- Promote continuous improvement by actively engaging within colleagues across COO and other areas of Royal London.
- Build a collaborative, commercial relationship with 3rd parties to manage costs and maximise value.
- The role will lead and / or People Manage technical resources comprising internal, contract and supplier resource.
- Matrix management across multiple disciplines - BAs, developers, testers, technical resources, third parties and business SMEs.
About you
- Proven track record of successful project and programme delivery, ideally in a Financial Services environment.
- Experience of building and leading high performing teams, creating a supportive environment to maximise colleague contribution and engagement.
- Highly competent in use of planning tools and experienced in operating financial and risk control frameworks in a project setting.
- Proactivity and future thinking around the management and control of programme/project costs and benefits.
- Strong stakeholder management experience at all levels up to C-suite.
- Thorough understanding of different project delivery methodologies and ways of working and able to adopt the most suitable approach to a given project.
- A self-starter, able to work with minimum supervision or direction.
- A technical background and motivation to continually learn new technologies.
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. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits
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.
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Royal London is a purpose-driven mutual. Our Purpose, ‘Protecting today, investing in tomorrow. Together we are mutually responsible’, defines the impact we want to have. It shapes what we do on behalf of our members and customers, financial advisers, our colleagues and the communities in which we operate. Our People Promise is our collective commitment that our workplace will be inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling where all colleagues can thrive and experience a sense of belonging. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
Our inclusive values and people promise are core to who we are and how we work. It’s good for our people, and good for our customers too, because with an inclusive workplace and a diverse workforce we will reflect our members, customers and communities to deliver the best outcomes.
We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across our organisation. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected– whatever their background.
Workplace Initiatives
Program for parents returning to work after Parental Leave? |
No |
Leadership development programmes? |
Yes |
Mentoring programmes? |
Yes |
Coaching programmes? |
Yes |
Employee-led diversity networks? |
Yes |
Internal women’s networking groups? |
Yes |
Open to discussing flexible work arrangements at interview stage? |
Yes |
No. of weeks paid maternity leave at full salary: |
26 weeks (followed by 13 weeks half pay) |
Minimum weeks tenure required to be eligible for paid maternity leave: |
Open to all regardless of length of service |
No. of weeks paid paternity leave at full salary: |
4 weeks |
Minimum tenure required to be eligible for paid paternity leave: |
Open to all regardless of length of service |
Gender pay gap reporting information 2022: |
|
Mean pay gap: |
35.3% |
Median pay gap: |
33.9% |
Mean bonus gap: |
70.4% |
Median bonus gap: |
48.5% |
Signatory of the UK Women in Finance Charter? |
Yes |
Targets to raise the number of women in leadership? |
Yes |
Targets to raise the number of BAME individuals in leadership? |
No |
Listed in the Bloomberg Diversity & Inclusion Index? |
No |
Graduate Programmes
We have a number of graduate programmes designed to deliver technical experts and future leaders.
Royal London Career Confidence programme
Our hybrid programme focuses on equipping you to feel empowered in your career and supported to explore new opportunities as they arise.
Apprenticeships
We offer a wide range of Apprenticeships that are targeted at both new joiners and existing colleagues.
Inclusion
We promote an inclusive culture at Royal London and have a range of inclusion networks for our colleagues to get involved with.
Our Women's Network is a community that celebrates and supports its members, helps everyone to learn more and inspires all of us to aim higher. Confidence and development are strong themes here and our events focus on three key areas of team working, finance, and wellbeing. There are two sub-groups to the Women’s Network – Women in Technology and our Periods and Menopause Group – focused on actions such as supporting over 20 new Periods and Menopause champions and launching guidance and training for leaders.