Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

Starting Salary: £55,000 up to £65,000 Depending on skills and expereince

2 Years Fixed-Term Contract

This is a great job for someone with a strong track record in project and change delivery, ideally within financial services, who is motivated by driving high-quality customer outcomes and resolving complex issues. You’ll thrive if you enjoy working across multiple stakeholders, influencing decisions, and managing end-to-end delivery in a structured, governance-led environment.

You’ll join the Product Governance Programme within the Wealth & Advice business, a team focused on resolving risk events and ensuring fair outcomes for customers and shareholders. This role exists to manage the end-to-end delivery of risk event projects, ensuring they meet Aviva’s Risk Event Framework and deliver the right customer outcomes.

You’ll lead a range of projects, including medium to high complexity deliveries, often working with third-party suppliers and internal teams. You’ll be accountable for ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, with robust governance, clear reporting, and solutions that are fit for purpose and sustainable over the long term.

• Proven track record of delivering projects or change initiatives end-to-end
• Strong experience within financial services (ideally Life & Pensions)
• Ability to manage complexity, including risk events and third-party suppliers
• Strong stakeholder management, influencing, and communication skills
• Professional project management accreditation (desirable, not essential)

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too.  And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you.  We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Starting salary between £55,000 up to £65,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity - actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s
• Generous pension scheme e.g. if you put in 8%, Aviva adds 14%
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
• Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it
• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave
• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work
• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

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Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Amber Britton a call on 07775546100 or send an email to amber.britton@aviva.com