About LPPI (-%About LPPI)

One of the key priorities at LPPI is ensuring that our people work every day in an empowered, supportive, diverse and inclusive culture. Practically, this means recognising and valuing the uniqueness of every individual in terms of background, experience, beliefs and circumstances. This starts with the recruitment process, where we partner with agencies who share our common goal and advertise on a variety of job boards to access the broadest spectrum of candidates. And once successful applicants are on board, we trust our people to work in the way that works best for them which typically involves a mix of office and home working plus an engagement model to ensure frequent two-way feedback.

We are very proud of our culture at LPPI and the benefits it brings to both our people and the business. But don’t just take our word for it! Recently, we invited our entire workforce to describe in three words what is great about us and they said - our people, flexibility and collaboration.

If you would like to join a company that is inclusive and forward-thinking, please read on.

Role Purpose (-%Role purpose)

LPPI are undertaking a fundamental review of their operating model to support their strategic goals - ‘Robust Foundations’ and ‘Client Orientation’ as a base for their developing growth agenda.

Two initiatives, IPAD Programme and Client and Fund Service Delivery Model initiative (CFSDM), have been initiated to:

• Define and implement a revised operating model to support the end-to-end investment process, incorporating a robust data and systems architecture which is future proofed.
• Create the appropriate Client Service Model and associated organisational structure to service the current clients, including ensuring robust tools and processes are embedded.
• Together with designing target Client Service models to support the potential future shape of the business.
• Building a solid platform to effectively mitigate operational risk, eliminate rework, and provide scale for growth. Delivering data for Investment, risk, performance and both internal and external reporting purposes.
• Tactical work will be identified and progressed alongside the above to give more immediate delivery, however resource expended on tactical work will be limited to focus on the target model and avoid ‘throw away’ work.

Key Responsibilities (-%Key responsibilities)

Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, the Project Lead/Manager will be responsible for leading and managing the delivery of these initiative across the Operations, Client Management and Investment Teams, contributing significantly to the resultant model.

• Design and create combined program governance and structure based on what is already in place, with reference to the LPPI Business Change Framework.
• Take an active part in shaping the model and solutions being designed and challenge others to ensure results are optimised.
• Full project life cycle ownership: successful project delivery will include full implementation from initiation to deployment for one major or several minor initiatives simultaneously.
• Provide leadership for project team and assigned business resource by motivating team members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities and project milestones.
• Develop and manage all aspects of project and program engagement from planning, external vendor relationships, communications, resources, budget, change, risks and issues.
• Provide timely, quality communication across the business and manage stakeholder engagement.

Requirements for the role (-%Requirements for the role)

• Experience project leading/managing complex projects across multiple business functions at an investment management company
• Deep understanding of the end-to-end processes, systems and data models employed within investment management companies.
• Understanding and experience of Client facing functions within investment management companies.
• Experience in designing and implementing operating models.
• Excellent understanding of project and program management principles, methods, and techniques.
• Ability to think creatively, challenge the status quo, and lead the problem-solving thought process for complex proposition development.
• Ability to communicate technical topics with a non-technical audience.
• Excellent stakeholder management.
• Good conduct that is consistent with the LPPI values - aligned behaviours

Reasonable adjustment will be made to working arrangements to accommodate a person with a disability who otherwise would be prevented from undertaking the work.