Junior Project Manager

About us:

Vanquis Banking Group has a rich history dating back to 1880. The company was founded in Bradford by Joshua Kelley Waddilove as The Provident Clothing and Supply Company to help people access finance and goods who couldn’t from traditional lenders.

Today, Vanquis Banking Group is a FTSE All Share company listed on the London Stock Exchange with around 1.6 million customers and plays the same role in people’s lives today, as it did when it was founded.

Vanquis Banking Group is a unified group made up of two brands: Vanquis (cards and loans) and Moneybarn (vehicle finance). While they offer different products and services, they share the common purpose and customer-centric values at the heart of our group. We understand our customers are real people with varied life experiences, so everything we do from our products to our customer experience is designed with this in mind.

The Junior Project Manager will work alongside the project managers to lead and own small to medium key projects within the Group portfolio, with responsibilities including the coordination and completion of projects on time, to scope and within budget.

The Junior Project Manager will oversee all aspects of project delivery, leading the project team, setting deadlines, assigning responsibilities, monitoring and reporting project progress.

Progression for this role will see the junior project manager progress to become a project manager, where they will be involved with larger scale IT and Transformation projects across the wider group.

In your day-to-day role, as a project manager you will:

• Ensure projects are delivered following the Change Delivery Framework
• Successful delivery of projects to time, budget, scope that can realise expected benefits
• Working with Sponsor, Accountable Executive and key stakeholders, support the development of the Project business case, taking business and functional requirements into account when considering possible options
• Ensure that the project is adequately planned and well structured, resolving issues and initiating corrective action where necessary
• Lead, engage and motivate the project team to deliver Project objectives and outcomes
• Prepare and maintain relevant plans, including project, critical path, communication and deployment plans
• Ensure that all risks and issues associated to the Project are properly documented, reported and actively managed; proposing appropriate actions and accompanied by effective communication throughout the process
• Ensure project reports and documents are prepared and delivered on time and to high quality
• Ensure that the impact of any change being proposed is considered and an appropriate change management approach is developed that will produce the best outcome for the Business
• Ensure business readiness by working with Business SME-s (compliance with business policies and processes, training for business users etc.)
• Drive continual improvement both individually and as an organisation, including identifying and acting on opportunities for improved efficiency and productivity

What you will bring to the team:

• A solid understanding of the project management lifecycle and experience on managing project related tasks.
• Some experience of working within a change environment or regulated industry
• Experience managing multiple business tasks simultaneously
• A foundational understanding of Waterfall and/or Agile methodologies
• Solid analytical and problem-solving capability
• Used project management activity charts and resource plans which showed own contribution on a project
• Supported the preparation of a cost plan and reported detailed costs on a project
• Contributed to the formal identification, analysis and communications planning for stakeholders
• Effectively contributing to business meeting and workshops with the ability to communicate difficult/sensitive information both verbally and in a written format. Ability to ask for help or clarification when needed

Why Moneybarn:

We understand that a reliable car, van, or motorbike is more than just a vehicle. We have a passion for getting our customers where they want to be. The company has won awards for its service and approach, most recently they won ‘Sub-Prime Lender of the Year’ and ‘Independent Finance Provider of the Year’ at the Motor Finance Europe Awards 2021, ‘Specialist Lender of the Year’ and ‘Vehicle Finance Provider of the Year’ at the National Credit Awards 2021, ‘Responsible Lender of the Year’ at the Credit Awards 2022 and the Feefo Gold Award 2022

We’re passionate about our colleagues and invest in professional development, offer flexible working, and provide a variety of tools to support wellbeing. Our colleague forums run regularly which allows everyone to have their say in an environment that offers no judgement. We’re also incredibly proud to have won the Company Culture Lotus Award for several years running.

Our Management Team are constantly improving the way we look after our people and have created an environment where everyone feels valued and can be themselves.

On top of all this, we will give you a package including:

• Competitive salary
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Hybrid working considered
• 25 days plus bank holidays on joining. 1 additional day for every year served for 5 years
• Pension Scheme with matched company contributions up to 5%
• Private Medical Insurance
• Opportunity to grow, develop and learn
• Colleague Perks at Work discount platform
• Season ticket loan
• 1 paid day to ‘give back’ to local communities or chosen charity

We strive to constantly improve the way we look after our people and have created an environment where everyone feels valued and can be themselves. We know that by having a better, more inclusive culture and a diverse group of colleagues, we can support our customers and each other in the best way possible. We also believe this goes a long way to helping us live our purpose and defines why we’re here in the first place: to help put people on a path to a better everyday life.

We’re an equal opportunities employer and we want people to join us no matter how they identify, their sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability, or age.

We want to attract and retain the best people. So, we make sure that, if people need it, they’re given all the extra support and reasonable adjustments to take part in any part of our application or interview process. We’ve also got lots of colleagues who choose to work flexibly, so please feel free to talk to us about how you prefer to work at any time.