Hybrid Senior Project Manager

at Benefex

• Job title: Senior Project Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: £55,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Professional Certificate
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Southampton, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior Project Manager at Benifex, managing high-impact projects for global enterprise customers. Collaborating with teams to ensure timely and high-quality project delivery in a fast-growing tech environment.

Responsibilities

• Plan, implement and manage multiple customer projects from initiation through to delivery
• Create and maintain detailed project plans, identifying activities, timelines, resources and dependencies
• Manage project scope, risks, issues and change requests to ensure successful outcomes
• Track progress against agreed plans, managing deadlines and driving teams to deliver on time
• Provide clear project updates, feedback, advice and encouragement to project team members
• Establish and manage communication schedules for customers and internal stakeholders
• Produce and deliver clear, compelling project documentation, proposals and presentations
• Present project updates and outcomes to senior customer representatives and key stakeholders
• Build trusted advisor relationships with senior-level customers and internal executive teams
• Support sales pitches by articulating the project approach and delivery methodology
• Conduct post-implementation reviews to assess outcomes and identify improvement opportunities
• Act as a role model within the Project Management team, supporting and developing others

Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience successfully managing multiple projects, ideally in software or solutions delivery
• Proven experience delivering large, complex customer projects
• A strong track record of managing competing priorities and meeting challenging deadlines
• A proactive, accountable completer-finisher with a strong sense of ownership
• Confidence using project management and reporting tools such as Air-table, JIRA or MS Project
• A recognised project management qualification
• A problem-solving mindset with the confidence to challenge the status quo and remove barriers
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with experience engaging senior stakeholders
• Previous experience working within the employee benefits industry

Benefits

• Flexible work – choose a working setup that works for 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
• £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!