Project Manager (Global)

Benify AB; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Southampton is seeking an experienced Project Manager to oversee simultaneous customer projects. Your role involves planning, coordinating, and ensuring projects meet high standards and budgets. The ideal candidate has a proven track record in managing multiple projects, excellent problem-solving skills, and is results-oriented. Benefits include a competitive salary, flexible work arrangements, and generous leave. Join a rapidly growing team making a significant impact in the industry.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangement

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Healthcare cash plan

Pension scheme

Enhanced parental leave

Monthly allowance for personal use

Qualifications

• Experience managing multiple projects in a software or solutions delivery role.
• History of delivering projects with competing deadlines and solving problems.
• A completer-finisher who takes ownership of their work.

Responsibilities

• Plan, implement, and manage projects for various customers.
• Create detailed project plans to ensure project completion.
• Manage issues and risks to ensure on-time delivery.

Skills

Project management

Problem solving

Communication skills

Ownership and accountability

Education

Recognised project management qualification

Tools

JIRA

MS Project

Projectmanager.com

Job description

Who are Benifex? 💚💜

We are a fast-moving technology company, and one of the most successful providers of online reward and benefits solutions in the UK. We believe that everyone deserves an exceptional experience at work, every day, and build workplace technology that makes this happen. Benifex’s mission is to build remarkable experiences that employees love. Today Benifex supports more than five million employees in over 3,000 organisations across more than 100 countries. To help us on our quest to be the best, we need brilliant people on board and that’s where you come in. 🚀

Why should you apply?

• Autonomy: decide on the best approach and own your portfolio of projects
• Impact: play an integral role in delivering complex projects for our customers
• Team: work with a talented team of PM's that will support your success from day one
• Progression: clear progression path to Senior PM with the opportunity to work on complex global programmes
• Top 10 Employer, Sunday Times Best Places to Work Awards
• Work for a profitable, fast-growing market leader in the online reward and benefits space

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship and require people to be based in the UK or Ireland for this position.

Great benefits

£45,000-50,000

Flexible work – choose a working setup that works for you, our only ask is to see you once a month in the office and you must be based in the UK or Ireland.

25 days holiday plus your local bank holidays

Your birthday off

Two half day wellbeing days

Healthcare cash plan to cover the costs of day to day healthcare

Employee Assistance Plan 24/7 365 support

Income Protection (75%) and life assurance (4x salary)

Pension scheme

Enhanced parental leave package - 26 weeks fully paid maternity leave and 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave

£50 monthly allowance to spend on whatever takes your fancy, your very own Benifex card will be topped up at the start of each month!

Role Overview 🚀

We’re looking for a Project Manager to join our Global team who will be responsible for the planning, coordinating, implementing and tracking of simultaneous customer projects, ensuring projects are delivered on time, to our agreed standard and budget.

We’re a fast-moving technology business undergoing rapid growth and are one of the leading providers of employee benefits solutions to employers. To help us on our quest to deliver and be the best we need the most brilliant people out there on board… and that’s where you come in.

We are looking for someone who goes above and beyond each day and has a can-do attitude to help deliver projects and support your fellow project management teammates.

You’ll need to have a problem-solving mindset, be happy to learn on the fly and share your learnings with others as we refine and develop our processes.

Responsibilities 🤘

You’ll be planning, implementing and managing projects for a variety of our customers. In the main, you’ll follow our tried and tested project methodology to deliver a great outcome for the customer, however, we expect you to flex your project management skills and be able to deliver for bespoke and custom projects when required.

• Create a detailed project plan which identifies and sequences the activities needed to successfully complete the project.
• Determine the resources (time, support, interdependencies etc) required to complete the project.
• Provide feedback, advice, project updates and encouragement to team members.
• Manage issues, risks and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery
• Produce and deliver compelling, clear, succinct documents, proposals and presentations using multiple inputs and data sources.
• Establish and manage the communication schedule to update the customer and internal stakeholders on project delivery against plan.
• Deliver project presentations to Senior Customer representatives and key stakeholders.
• Supporting sales pitches to prospective customers to tell them all about a Benefex project and what it involves
• Undertake a post implementation review to evaluate the outcomes of the project against agreed plans to identify improvement opportunities that benefit both the Customer and Benefex business.

What are we looking for? 🔎

• Experience of successfully managing multiple projects, preferably in a software or solutions delivery role.
• We’re looking for a history of delivery of multiple projects with competing deadlines and solving problems to ensure projects are delivered on time.
• You need to be a completer-finisher, who is a proactive thinker and someone who really takes ownership and accountability of their work.
• You’ll be an avid user of project management reporting tools, such as projectmanager.com, Air-table, JIRA or MS Project.
• A recognised project management qualification is a must.
• You’ll be the type of person who frequently challenges the ‘status quo’ as well as removing external and internal barriers by identifying effective solutions.

Nice to haves:

• Experience in Employee Benefits, HRIS, Payroll or HR Tech.
• Experience in global projects.

Even if you don't meet all of the requirements for this role, we encourage you to apply! We are looking for talented and passionate individuals who are eager to learn and grow. We also offer a variety of other roles, so please check out our careers page to see if there is something else that might be a good fit for you.

Our interview process

Initial informal call with the Talent team

Online tests in numeracy and logical reasoning

Interview with the hiring manager and a member of the team

Final interview with the Director

🎄🌟 Due to the holiday period, the recruitment process may take slightly longer than usual. We appreciate your patience and will get back to you as soon as possible.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome and respected. We believe that diversity and inclusion are essential to our success, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We are a proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme.

If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage during the recruitment process, please let us know with your application.