There are project managers, and then there are pensions project managers—those stoic few who’ve stared into the oceanic abyss of a provider transition and calmly suggested a phased migration plan.
Forget everything you’ve been told about project management in pensions.
This isn’t neat Gantt charts and colour-coded spreadsheets. This is boots-on-the-ground stuff: migrating admin platforms mid-flight, corralling conflicting trustee opinions, and translating three decades of scheme amendments into something that might—if the stars align—actually work.
The client is looking for a seasoned Project Manager who knows the difference between a comms plan and an actual communications strategy. Someone who’s worked with pension schemes, wrangled data transitions, and doesn't panic when the sponsor’s “slight change in scope” is, in fact, a small war crime.
This is a high-autonomy, contract (or perm) role with full remote flexibility. It demands leadership, negotiation skills, and an extremely well-maintained sense of humour.
There are no beanbags. No forced fun. Just complex projects, delivered properly, by someone who can steer the ship through a sea of legacy documents, political vagueness, and five slightly different definitions of ‘urgent.’
Applications welcome from battle-tested project professionals ready to step up as true commanders. Because somewhere out there, a pensions committee has just agreed to “streamline delivery through hybrid governance modelling.”
And they’re going to need backup. Proficiency in swimming essential.
