Project Manager – Fund Governance & Fund Simplification

• Lead project delivery across one or more fund simplification workstreams, ensuring clear plans, milestones, risks, dependencies and actions are actively managed.
  
• Support regulatory approval activity relating to Standard Life Fund Managers becoming FCA-approved Alternative Investment Fund Managers, including coordinating responses to FCA questions and tracking submission-related actions.
  
• Progress the Target Operating Model for SLFM, ensuring governance, reporting and operational requirements are defined, agreed and implemented.
  
• Lead or support the set-up of new fund ranges for the Retirement Spending Initiative, helping to coordinate activity across fund design, governance, implementation and stakeholder approvals.
  
• Support customer-focused initiatives, including customer governance, take-to-market activity and delivery of new multi-asset default funds.

• Strong Project Manager with experience delivering complex change within financial services, ideally within life, pensions, asset management or investment/fund environments.
  
• Good understanding of policyholder funds, customer-based fund propositions and fund governance requirements.
  
• Experience supporting fund set-up, fund changes, fund rationalisation, fund launches or new fund range implementation.
  
• Comfortable working in a regulated environment, with exposure to FCA-facing activity, regulatory approvals, governance forums or compliance-led delivery.
  
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to coordinate activity across fund managers, governance teams, customer teams, regulatory/compliance stakeholders and senior leadership.
  
• Experience developing or implementing Target Operating Models, governance frameworks, reporting structures or operating procedures.
  
• Strong planning, RAID management, dependency management, action tracking and senior stakeholder reporting capability.
  
• Able to operate independently, bring structure to ambiguity and drive progress across multiple workstreams.
  Customer-focused mindset, with an understanding of customer outcomes, governance controls and take-to-market considerations.
  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce clear project updates, governance materials and decision papers.

• Minimum 5+ years’ project management experience within financial services or a regulated environment.
  
• Prior experience in life, pensions, asset management, investment funds or policyholder fund governance would be highly desirable.

FDM is an award-winning global leader in tech and business talent solutions, backed by more than 35 years of industry experience. We have centres across Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 2500 employees. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer, currently listed on the FTSE4Good Index and as a 2026 Financial Times UK ‘Best Employer’.

Diversity and Inclusion

FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.

Why join us

• Career coaching, mentoring and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career.
• Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad.
• Opportunity to re-skill and up-skill into new areas, develop non-linear career paths and build a skillset within your field.
• Annual leave and workplace pension