Project Manager / Business Analyst

The Value of Active Minds

About Jupiter

Jupiter is one of the UK's leading investment management companies with over 500 employees and £51.3 billion worth of assets under management (as at 30th June 2024).

Jupiter provides investment services to individual and institutional investors through mutual funds (UK unit trusts, Luxembourg SICAVs and Dublin OEICs), separately managed accounts and sub-advised funds. Jupiter has experienced a period of international growth with offices open in EMEA and APAC.

The majority of our employees are based in our London office located just minutes from Victoria station which provides stair-free access from both the Underground's Victoria line and National Rail platforms, as well as limited road crossings to the Jupiter office. Our London office was designed to encourage employees to live active, healthy lives with floor-to-ceiling windows that allow for greater natural light and the benefit of a private balcony, table tennis room, cycle storage and on-site shower and locker facilities. The short distance to Green Park and St James' Park also provides employees with a natural space to relax during their lunch break and a healthy alternative to office-based meetings.

We offer our UK employees a 3:2 hybrid working arrangement where Tuesdays, Thursdays and a third day of your choice are worked from the office. The other two days may be worked from home. This facilitates collaboration and allows employees to maximise productivity whilst maintaining a healthy work/life balance.

Background

This is an exciting time to join the Change team at Jupiter. The Strategy & Transformation Department has recently been created to support Jupiter in delivering its wider business strategy and transformational initiatives. The Change Team, (which was previously part of Technology), is part of this function, and sits alongside the Corporate Development function, reporting to the Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer. The Change team will deliver an ambitious and transformational book of work to achieve Jupiter's strategic goals.

The growth of the Change team, and the creation of this Project Manager role, reflects the increased size and scale of Jupiter's change appetite as we embark on a multi-year transformational change agenda that will deliver strategic initiatives across the entire firm.

This role offers high exposure and requires close collaboration with senior stakeholders across the business. It will require building strong collaborative and cross-functional relationships across many areas of the firm. The role holder will undertake their responsibilities in a way that aligns with our cultural pillars - our clients come first, our value is in our people, we succeed together, we strive to challenge ourselves.

Key Responsibilities

Project Manage all aspects of the end-to-end project delivery

• Coordinate requirement gathering and propose a clear definition of the scope and business value of your project. Take responsibility to ensure all interested parties have a transparent and consistent view of what your project will deliver.
• Identify logical grouping, sequencing, and delivery approach of key milestones. Propose a delivery framework and resource profile to support this.
• Quantify the business benefit/rationale of your project and design a metric(s) to report the delivery value of the project throughout its duration.
• As part of your project design, identify operational BAU impacts of your project, and propose solutions on how these will be managed post-delivery.
• Maintain up to date transparent tracking of your project, incl risk/issue information, that can be extracted on an ad-hoc basis and will provide a real time snapshot of your project status.
• Design roadmaps and implementation plans including organisational cross dependencies. Tailoring the roadmap so it can be used for both detailed working groups, and senior management audiences.
• Manage/chair/lead the Steering/Working/Project groups/committees and/or projects, including assisting with the production of related project documentation.
• Be ready to quickly provide succinct options and recommendations to senior stakeholders when delivery risks arise.
• Identify and implement potential solutions, systems, tools, processes, and frameworks to improve the ongoing optimisation of the Change Team's Operating model.
• Robustly manage project financials including initial estimate, budgets, and forecasts.
• Be aware of the industry and regulatory landscape. Research and provide insights as to how similar projects/problems are being tackled in the market. Consider and demonstrate these insights when designing your project approach and timelines.
• Continually improve how we work, consider the lessons of the last project, and how we can adapt the way we deliver change to maximise outcomes for our clients and stakeholders.

• Build strong partnerships between business functions and the Change team, across both London based colleagues, as well as overseas.
• Manage external suppliers/vendors who are engaged on your project, manage the work that they deliver in line with the statement of work.
• Partner closely with the Technical Delivery Team to identify the technical requirements of your project, understand their development and test timelines, and manage accordingly within your project plan.
• Work closely with your Change team colleagues, share best practices and be aware of challenges across the wider portfolio of change. Show an interest in the other Project Mangers challenges and capacity issues, working as a team to collectively support.
• Identify all relevant stakeholders within the remit of your project, design an appropriate comms and engagement strategy appreciating the needs and detail will differ across the group.
• Form close collaboration with your project sponsor, proposing an efficient governance model that will provide the right level of oversight whilst being conscious of stakeholder's time and availability.
• Build close relationships with the SMEs and working group members who will support the delivery of your project. Build trust and understand the wider and competing work priorities of this group to foresee delivery risks and plan accordingly.
• Take a pragmatic risk-based approach to the project artefacts, whilst meeting Jupiter's project delivery framework standards, further assess what items will require ratification and decision. Design the most effective way of proposing recommendations and documenting outcomes for future reference or audit.