Junior Project Manager

Royal London is a Financial Services company with a difference. As the UK's largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, we're owned by our members and work for their benefit, not for shareholder profits. We've grown rapidly and have been recognised as one of the UK's top rated places to work.

Today, Royal London has over £170 billion of assets under management, and around 4,000 employees working in five offices across the UK and Ireland. As an organisation, they have worked hard to become experts in specialist markets, building a trusted brand, with plenty of awards to show for it.

We've worked hard to become experts in our specialist markets, building a trusted brand - and our teams have plenty of awards to show for it. Whatever team you're interested in joining and whatever role you play, we'll help you to make a difference.

AMS is a global workforce solutions partner committed to creating inclusive, dynamic, and future-ready workplaces. We help organisations adapt, grow, and thrive in an ever-evolving world by building, shaping, and optimising diverse talent strategies.

We partner with Royal London to support their contingent Recruitment processes Acting as an extension of their recruitment team, we connect them with skilled interim and temporary professionals, fostering workplaces where everyone can contribute and succeed.

On behalf of our client, Royal London. We are looking for a Junior Project Manager for a contract until February based in Edinburgh on a hybrid working model.

Purpose of the role:

We're seeking a proactive junior project manager with strong PM and PMO skills, capable of quickly grasping technical concepts and contributing to a high-profile migration programme at Royal London. The ideal candidate will demonstrate initiative, adaptability, and a clear understanding of migration approaches in complex environments.

What you'll do:

• Support creation of POAPs and workstream level plans and assumptions, in line with the programme planning cycle?.
• Support identification and documentation of appropriate planning assumptions and progress action plans to validate?.
• Establishment and management of an ADO board to assist identification and day-to-day tracking of team activities (if appropriate.)
• Ownership and day to day management of the Migration Workstream Backlog capturing items which require clarification from data mapping sessions, assigning priority, ownerships and timelines, capturing progress updates and managing through to completion?.
• Ownership and day to day management of the Data Mapping/Data Quality backlog capturing items which require clarification from data mapping sessions, assigning priority, ownerships and timelines, capturing progress updates and managing through to completion?.
• Ownership and day to day management of the Migration Workstream RAID log (PPMA.) ?
• Support operation of the Quadparty Migration stand ups?.
• Support operation of the Migration Daily stand ups?.
• Identification of appropriate risks and issues with associated mitigating actions?.
• Adherence to Royal London and the AMPS programme governance & control requirements?.
• Assist demonstration of appropriate Stage Gate deliverables and management.
• Involvement in Horizon scanning and review and assessment of CRs to reflect migration workstream impacts?.
• Assist the development of key migration artefacts including but not limited to 6-month plans and associated RAID, the Migration Approach and Migration Strategy?.
• Support of workstream forums (Working Group and RAID forum) through development of packs and capturing and managing actions and decisions?.
• Assist co-ordination with Delivery partners.
• Assist partner stakeholder management and co-ordination?.
• Assist migration workstream stakeholder management across Business Readiness. Finance, Proposition. Group Risk, GDO and Service Integration?.

The skills you'll need:

• Junior Project Management/PMO experience.
• Financial Services experience.
• Raid Management experience.
• Stakeholder Management.

Next steps

This client will only accept workers operating via an Umbrella/PAYE engagement model.

If you are interested in applying for this position and meet the criteria outlined above, please click the link to apply and speak to one of our sourcing specialists now.

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