Senior Project Manager

About the role

As an Senior Project Manager, you’re adept at managing multiple projects and overcoming challenges to deliver a first-class implementation experience for customers. You enjoy the freedom and autonomy to make a real impact, developing your skills as an exceptional project manager, and you love seeing the end result of a successful project delivery.

To you it’s about working collaboratively, building effective relationships, and finding creative solutions to any hurdles you may face. You’re passionate amount your personal development and value the opportunity to take on a range of implementation projects, learning and evolving from each experience.

As our next Senior Project Manager, you’ll deliver Enterprise, Strategic and complex implementation projects or programmes for Zellis customers, including ongoing programmes and customer change, that make a real difference to our customers and their employees.

Your day-to-day will include developing and maintaining agreed project plans with customers, managing all project or change activities, and monitoring KPIs, status reporting, commercial margin and P&L. You’ll coordinate all project resources in executing their activities and act as the point of escalation for any issues, as you ensure delivery on-time, on budget and at the highest level of quality.

Skills & experience

Do you have:

• A minimum of three years previous project management experience, working on large scale and highly complex implementation and transition delivery? (employee volumes 10,000+ and managing £500k+ budgets)
• Experience working in software/systems implementation? (HR and Payroll software experience an added bonus)
• Experience engaging with FTSE100 and FTSE 250 companies?
• Professional project management qualifications? (e.g. PRINCE2, PMI, Six Sigma)?

You’ll be resilient, adaptable, positive and customer-centric in everything you do. You’ll have great commercial awareness, coupled with a thorough understanding of risk, governance and reporting mechanisms. You’ll be passionate, driven and a strong communicator, using these attributes to create a successful “one team” approach to each project.

You'll be great with stakeholders, capable of building trusting and long-lasting relationships. You'll have well-developed leadership skills, with the ability to bring people together and create a sense of community amongst broad project teams.

You'll be based remotely and will enjoy working from home but will also be flexible to visit both Zellis and customer offices as required (approximately 3-5 times per month, with occasional overnight stays). Please talk to us if you require any specific flexible working arrangements and we'll happily explore the possibilities.

Benefits & culture

At Zellis we create market-leading HR & Payroll products and services, to power exceptional employee experiences so that you and your people do better. Our multi-award-winning products pay over five million employees a year, with almost half (42%) of the FTSE 100, 50% of the top retailers and 30% of the top universities in the UK & Ireland as customers, making us the largest provider of Payroll and HR software and managed services.

Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We're passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation. Our values, which were defined with input from all of our 2,000 colleagues, we live and breathe every day:

• Unstoppable together.
• Always learning.
• Make it count.
• Think scale.

Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we’re proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position as the leading provider of HR & Payroll software and services. With Zellis you’ll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that’s varied, flexible and hugely supportive.

We also love to reward and recognise our brilliant colleagues. As part of your benefits package, you’ll receive:

• A competitive base salary, plus cash car allowance.
• 25 days annual leave, plus your birthday off and the opportunity to buy additional holiday.
• Private medical insurance.
• Life assurance 4x salary.
• Enhanced pension scheme with company contributions up to 8.5%.
• A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure.