Project Manager in London - National Employment Savings Trust (NEST)

London

Up to £65,000 (depending on experience)

Fixed Term

12 months

37.5 Working Hours - (Flexible)

13 Aug 2025

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Role Overview

This is an exciting, high profile role for project managers to work in a fast paced and supportive environment. This Fixed Term Contract (12 months) will involve managing technical (such as data) and/or functional projects working with various key stakeholders across Nest teams and key third-party suppliers. As part of this role, you'll be managing key risks, issues, and dependencies, delivering alongside Nest suppliers and support assurance on plans working with internal teams. There will be ample opportunities to learn and grow in this role - process wise and technically.

The principle accountability for this role is to work with business stakeholders, lead project managers and programme managers in the delivery of project control processes, projects, or workstreams for a range of projects.

A Foundation Project Manager would be expected to independently execute this accountability for smaller, more straightforward projects, or with appropriate support, as part of a larger project management team, for larger, more complex projects or programmes.
They will be expected to be confident in project management practices and able to demonstrate exemplary ways of working. There will not be line management responsibility for this role.

This role is offered as a secondment opportunity for internal applicants.

The minimum criteria for this role are:

The candidate should have been in a project manager role previously - minimum 2 years experience or equivalent.

The candidate should have been in a change related role such as experienced business analyst or PMO related role for a minimum of 2 years experience or equivalent.

Don't worry if you think you don't have all the key skills, it might be worth taking the few minutes to apply as we're good at spotting potential and offer a generous training budget.

Please download a full job description to find a full scope, deliverables, experience and personal attributes required for this role.

Flexible and agile working

Everyone's personal situation is different.

To make the most out of hybrid working, we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):

hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, once - twice a week, or more, as required)
reduce or vary working hours
reduce or vary the days worked
work compressed hours
job share

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Directorate/Department Overview

The Nest Service and Experience Change Programmes team is responsible for ensuring that technology, service, organisational and operational change is implemented in a controlled, timely and commercial manner.

Responsibilities include:

Programme & Project Delivery
Programme & Project Planning and Tracking
Programme & Project Reporting
Issue and Risk Management
Change Management
Quality Assurance
Configuration Management
TThe team also support the CEO and Executive Committee with preparation for various boards and other governance functions.

Organisational Overview

Nest is an award-winning workplace pension scheme, the largest in the country.

Set up by the government to give every worker in the UK somewhere to save, our first-class responsible investment practice and governance are the backbone of what we do, supported by all the functions you’d expect to find in a thriving business. We’re committed to creating a workplace where you can be your authentic self and offer an inclusive and flexible working environment.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of their age, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy or caring responsibilities, race, religion/belief, sex, sexual orientation or socio economic background.

We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation.

Nest is a Disability Confident Leader, which is the highest level of the Disability Confident Scheme. If you have a disability, please declare that you’re applying through the scheme.

We aim to offer an interview to those applicants who apply through the Disability Confident Scheme and best meet the minimum criteria. However, there may be some circumstances where this is not possible due to the volume of applications.

Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications.

If you have any difficulty in sending your application or need the application pack in an alternative format, or you require any reasonable adjustments please contact [email protected].

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