Project Manager (12-month fixed term contract)

Description

The team is the CIB Rectification & Remediation (R&R) team at a UK banking group, where the work is putting things right for clients when something has gone wrong.

The role covers a varied, high-profile portfolio of complex change, with a focus on fair treatment of clients and learning from what went wrong.

This is a 12-month fixed-term contract.

The listing ends on Monday 16 November 2026.

The company is a UK business with a stated ambition to lead on diversity, equity and inclusion, and it has an established record on diversity in senior roles, a menopause health package and a Working with Cancer Initiative.

Responsibilities

• Take change projects from idea through to implementation, delivering to the agreed scope, cost, quality and timescales.
• Lead planning, governance and delivery across design, build, route to live and implementation, and make sure accountable deliverables are signed off.
• Spot delivery risks, dependencies and upstream or downstream impacts, escalating them so releases and roadmap initiatives stay on track.
• Build working relationships across the business, influencing colleagues, resolving their queries and making sure agreed actions are carried through.
• Lead and run Agile activities, including daily stand-ups, release planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives and sprint reviews.
• Coach and support colleagues in the team, helping them collaborate, learn and deliver to a high standard.
• Lead your delivery team across the full project lifecycle, applying project management discipline to analysis, planning, governance, financial management and delivery.
• Challenge thinking and explore new ideas, and help the team deliver at its best.
• Work across teams and business areas to keep service standards high while meeting regulatory requirements.

Requirements

• Experience on Rectification & Remediation projects and a solid grasp of the R&R lifecycle.
• A strong record of project management, including leading change from idea through to implementation.
• Strong planning, governance and financial management skills, with a history of delivering to scope, cost, quality and timescales.
• Experience working within change lifecycles and supporting governance requirements.
• Experience in Agile delivery environments and a good understanding of Agile ways of working.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and negotiation skills, and the confidence to make sound judgements in complex or difficult situations.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships with a range of colleagues and partners.

Conditions

Pay is listed as £0 to £0.

The role is full-time.

The work style is hybrid: you spend at least two days per week, or 40% of your time, at one of the office sites.

Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments, including hybrid working expectations under the Flexibility Works policy.

Flexible working options are available, including job share.

Interviews are guaranteed for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria and have a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition, under the Disability Confident Scheme, and reasonable adjustments are provided throughout recruitment.

Benefits

• A pension contribution of up to 15%.
• An annual performance-related bonus.
• Share schemes, including free shares.
• Lifestyle benefits you can adapt to your needs, such as discounted shopping.
• 30 days of holiday, plus bank holidays.
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.