Project Manager

Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Manchester / Leeds

Salary From: £50,000

Who we are:

interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future. We’ve been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We’ve seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We’re now the UK’s number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £75 billion and over 500,000 customers.

For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs.

We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights.

Purpose of the role:

The Project Manager leads the planning, execution, and successful delivery of projects that support strategic, regulatory, and operational objectives across the organisation. This role is responsible for managing end-to-end project lifecycles, ensuring clear governance, engaged stakeholders, and effective risk management. As a key contributor within a complex, fast-moving financial institution, the Project Manager ensures delivery discipline, drives collaboration across teams, and enables measurable business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of projects, ensuring outcomes are achieved on time, within scope, and within budget.
• Define project scope, governance structures, delivery plans, milestones, resource requirements, and success measures.
• Proactively manage risks, issues, dependencies, and change control, ensuring appropriate escalation and mitigation.
• Produce high-quality documentation including business cases, project plans, RAID logs, steering packs, and progress updates.
• Facilitate project ceremonies—kick-offs, stand-ups, workshops, steering committees—and ensure clear, actionable outputs.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams such as Technology, Compliance, Operations, Risk, Legal, and Finance to deliver project objectives.
• Engage senior stakeholders, providing clear, concise communication tailored to different audiences.
• Oversee vendor, partner, or third-party contributions where relevant, ensuring contractual and delivery alignment.
• Support organisational change activities, including communications, training, user adoption, and readiness planning.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of project delivery frameworks, reporting standards, and governance practices.

Skills and experience

• Proven experience delivering projects within financial services or a similarly regulated environment.
• Strong understanding of project management methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, or hybrid), governance practices, and project controls.
• Experience producing robust project documentation and operating within structured governance environments.
• Strong commercial and analytical skills, with the ability to interpret data, build business cases, and support informed decision-making.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 (Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint) and project tools such as MS Project, JIRA, Planner, or Azure DevOps.
• Demonstrable experience managing cross-functional teams and coordinating stakeholders at multiple levels.
• Professional certifications such as APM PMQ, PRINCE2 Practitioner, Scrum Master, or AgilePM are advantageous.

• Group Personal Pension Plan – 8% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution
• Life Assurance and Group Income Protection
• Private Medical Insurance – Provided by Bupa
• 25 Days Annual Leave, plus bank holidays
• Staff Discounts on our investment products
• Personal & Well-being Fund – Supporting your physical and mental wellness
• Retail Discounts – Savings at a wide range of high street and online retailers
• Voluntary Flexible Benefits – Tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle

Please Note: We will do our utmost efforts to respond to all applicants. However, due to the high volume of applications we're currently receiving, if you haven't been contacted within 30 days of application, please consider unsuccessful.

interactive investor operates in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, disabilities, gender identities, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and making reasonable adjustments where needed to support disabled applicants. We actively prevent all forms of discrimination, harassment, and victimisation—whether direct, indirect, associative, or perceptive