Project Manager

NFU Mutual Group; Metropolitan Borough of Solihull; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance and financial services company in the UK is seeking a Project Manager to drive high-impact change projects and manage complex initiatives with budgets up to £5 million. This role requires extensive project management experience, ability to deliver strategic change, and collaboration across teams in a hybrid work model. Successful candidates will demonstrate strong leadership, risk management, and communication skills, ensuring project delivery aligns with business goals. This position offers competitive rewards and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Annual bonus up to 25%

Contributory pension scheme up to 20%

28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Family Friendly policy

Private medical insurance

Gym membership contribution

Health and wellbeing plan

Employee Volunteering

Refer a Friend bonus scheme

Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary

Employee discounts on insurance policies

Salary sacrifice car scheme

Qualifications

• Experienced Change Project Manager with a proven track record.
• Experience delivering complex business and technology change.
• Experience in financial services or highly regulated environments is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-impact change projects that shape the future.
• Manage complex projects or workstreams through the full lifecycle.
• Define and agree project scope, deliverables and roles.

Skills

End-to-end change project delivery

Robust risk, issue and dependency management

Strong financial, resource and supplier management capability

Proven stakeholder management

Effective leadership and team collaboration

Sound decision making and resilience

Job description

• Lead high-impact change projects that shape the future of NFU Mutual’s operations
• Collaborate across business and technology teams to deliver strategic change
• Hybrid working model with flexibility to work from home and our Stratford-upon-Avon office.

About the role

Are you ready to drive meaningful change through expertly managed projects? As a Project Manager at NFU Mutual, you’ll take ownership of large-scale initiatives up to £5 million in budget delivering them from concept to completion. This role is pivotal to our strategic transformation, ensuring that business-critical projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest standards.

In this dynamic and influential role, you’ll manage one or more complex projects or programme workstreams through the full project lifecycle, from initial definition and detailed planning through to delivery, transition into business as usual and closure. Working closely with Sponsors, Business Leads and cross-functional delivery teams, you’ll ensure clarity of scope, ownership and responsibilities, and drive the successful delivery of agreed business outcomes.

You’ll take accountability for defining and agreeing project scope, deliverables and roles, ensuring alignment and shared understanding across all key stakeholders. You’ll lead robust project planning, tracking and reporting activities in line with NFU Mutual’s Change Framework, providing clear, data-led insight to support effective decision making. Building strong relationships with internal teams and third-party suppliers, you’ll foster a collaborative, one-team approach to delivery, encouraging constructive challenge and shared accountability.

You’ll proactively manage risks, issues and dependencies to protect project outcomes and business operations, while overseeing resource allocation and leading delivery teams to ensure work is delivered in the right way, at the right time and to the right standard. You’ll also support the development and ongoing review of business cases, ensuring benefits are clearly defined, tracked and realised, and that effective communication and governance structures are in place throughout the lifecycle of the change.

While this role operates under NFU Mutual’s hybrid working approach, there will be times where business needs; project milestones, key meetings or delivery activity require an increased presence in the office therefore flexibility will be required.

About you

You’ll be an experienced Change Project Manager, with a proven track record of delivering complex business and technology change within a portfolio environment. This role requires demonstrable experience working in a Change function (business or IT change), delivering back-end system, process, data or operational change rather than front-end or marketing-led initiatives.

You’ll bring:

• End-to-end change project delivery, managing complex projects or workstreams from definition through to transition into business as usual, with strong planning, control and governance in hybrid Agile/Waterfall environments
• Robust risk, issue and dependency management, demonstrating clear judgement across cross-project and portfolio dependencies, supported by data-led reporting
• Strong financial, resource and supplier management capability, including budget control, forecasting, capacity planning and effective supplier and commercial management
• Proven stakeholder management and influence, with the ability to engage, challenge and align senior stakeholders through clear, confident communication and engagement
• Effective leadership and team collaboration, creating a one-team culture across multi-disciplinary delivery teams, Scrum Masters and third-party partners, with a strong change and customer focus
• Sound decision making, resilience and accountability, maintaining delivery momentum in a fast-paced, regulated change environment and taking ownership for outcomes and benefits

Experience delivering change within financial services or other highly regulated environments is advantageous.

At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees.

We recognise that some candidates may experience barriers during the recruitment process. So, we encourage candidates to discuss any adjustments or accommodations they need to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Race at Work and Women in Finance Charter signatory and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.

Benefits and Rewards

When you join our team,you can expecta supportive cultureandanattractive range ofrewards and benefitsincluding:

• Annual bonus (up to 25% of salary)
• Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
• 28 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
• A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities
• Private medical insurance + options to add family members
• Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets
• £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership – subject to T&Cs
• Health and wellbeing plan- cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more
• Employee Volunteering - volunteerin the community for one day each year
• Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme
• Life Assurance coverof 4 x salary
• Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.
• Salary sacrifice employee car scheme - subject to eligibility

Working at NFU Mutual

We’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services companies. For over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us.

We pride ourselves on being “a great place to work” and our Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2025 award was not only awarded with Distinction but also named us as the first UK-based company to receive a Gallup Exceptional Workplace for ten years in a row. We are also the only Insurer to feature in the LinkedIn Top 15 Companies 2025 list of ‘Best midsize employers to grow your career in the UK’, the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK List 2023 and 2024, and were recognised as a certified UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023, 2024 and 2025.

We offer a supportive culture where we empower and inspire our people to perform, offer them opportunities to grow, and recognise and reward their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable, so we are successful now and in the future.

We are a leading provider of General Insurance and Financial Services. From our strong farming roots we’ve grown to become a UK-wide organisation, turning over £1billion annually. Yet success hasn’t gone to our heads. We’re proud to remain completely customer focused, down-to-earth and committed to the rural communities we’ve grown from.

Our ethos - of trust, respect and personal service - lies at the heart of all we do and has seen us build an enviable reputation for exceptional member loyalty. Though we’ve been in business for over 110 years, we have big ambitions for the future. And that’s why we’re looking for talented people to join our growing organisation. Talented people like you.