About the Business

Quilter plc is a leading provider of financial advice, investments and wealth management, committed to being the UK’s best wealth manager for clients and their advisers. Quilter oversees £126.3 billion in customer investments (as of August 2025). It has an adviser and customer offering spanning financial advice, investment platforms, multi-asset investment solutions, and discretionary fund management. The business is comprised of two segments: Affluent and High Net Worth.

Affluent encompasses the financial planning business, Quilter Financial Planning, the Quilter Investment Platform and Quilter Investors, the multi-asset investment solutions business.

High Net Worth includes the discretionary fund management business, Quilter Cheviot, together with Quilter Cheviot Financial Planning.

At Quilter we never stand still. Our foundations are rooted in our extraordinary expertise, which is trusted by hundreds of thousands of customers, but we have great ambitions to stay one step ahead and make an even greater difference to the people and communities we serve.

Our business is transforming, continually modernising, and becoming even more customer centric. So, if you want to be bold in the pursuit of your ambitions, bring new ideas, and challenge and evolve what we do, it’s the perfect time to join us!

About the Role

Level: 5

Department: Change

Location: Southampton or London

Contract type: Permanent

The Project Manager leads and matures the delivery function of a rapidly scaling platform team, bringing structure, predictability, and senior-level challenges to a complex and evolving environment. .

Ensures disciplined, evidence-based delivery, embeds agile ways of working, and translates technical roadmaps into credible, outcome-driven plans that enable confident decision-making and cross-organisational alignment.

Also has depth and breadth of experience in Waterfall delivery methodology.

Delivery Leadership

Leads end-to-end delivery across all platform initiatives, ensuring work is strategically sequenced, prioritised, and appropriately resourced.

Brings structure and predictability to a fast-scaling environment through disciplined delivery practices and clear governance.

Provides authoritative oversight, surfacing scope changes, dependencies, risks and decision points early.

Creates clarity from ambiguity, offering direction where problem spaces are evolving or unclear.

Drives accountability and performance, ensuring teams maintain focus, alignment, and high delivery standards.

Ensure delivery narratives and plans are credible, evidence-based, enabling senior stakeholders to make informed decisions with trust and transparency.

Agile Delivery & Ways of Working

Champions modern delivery practices, embedding agile principles that enable adaptability while maintaining rigour.

Evolves the platform team from start-up-style ways of working to scalable, repeatable and well-governed frameworks.

Uses retrospectives, metrics, and feedback loops to enhance efficiency and predictability and team effectiveness.

Translates strategy into operational ways of working - designing processes, rhythms, and workflows that turn high-level objectives into actionable plan

Promotes data-driven delivery, ensuring squads use insights, capacity trends, and delivery metrics to inform prioritisation and planning

Removes blockers at pace providing guidance on adaptive planning, iterative value delivery and supports teams in navigating change confidently

Stakeholder Management & Influence

Acts as the primary interface between Technology, Product, and senior leadership programme stakeholder.

Navigating shifting expectations with balanced judgement, clear communication, and transparent reporting.

Builds trusted, influential relationships across senior teams.

Adapts communication style to ensure clarity for technical and non-technical audiences.

Maintains credibility under pressure, using diplomacy, resilience, and structured facilitation to manage difficult conversations.

Ensures stakeholders remains aligned and informed with purposeful updates and meaningful delivery insights.

Cross-Enterprise Programme Coordination

Coordinates complex; cross-enterprise initiatives are reliant on platform capabilities.

Works closely with Product, Technology, and Operations to ensure end-to-end readiness, governance, and business preparation.

Identifies interdependencies and drives coordinated delivery across functions to ensure seamless execution.

Strategic Thinking & Operational Discipline

Connects day-to-day delivery with long-term platforms and organisational objectives.

Shifts effectively between high-level planning and hands-on operational execution

Applies disciplined prioritisation grounded in business value, risk, and organisational impact.

Drives operational excellence through structured governance, controls, and continuous improvement.

Uses data-driven insights to guide planning, resourcing, and risk mitigation.

About You

Experience & Skills Required
*Proven track record delivering complex digital programmes in rapidly scaling environments.
*Strong understanding of platform technologies, agile delivery, and product-centric operating models.
*Demonstrated ability to manage challenging stakeholders with resilience and constructive influence.
*Adept at bringing structure, governance, and predictable delivery to fast-growing teams.
*Skilled in balancing near-term delivery needs with long-lasting strategic priorities.
Personal Attributes *Calm, structures, and composed under pressure, providing clarity during ambiguity and change.
*Resilient and solution-focused, able to absorb complexity and guide teams toward pragmatic outcomes.
*Collaborative and facilitative, creating alignment through inclusive decision-making.
*Priories strong stakeholder relationships at all levels of the organisation and values teamwork to deliver their projects
*Proactive, improvement-oriented, and committed to maturing ways of workingTrusted and credible