Project Manager

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 will deliver assigned projects in line with the Group Change Delivery Framework. 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.

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.

We’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services organisations, and for over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us, so we’re proud to be recognised as “a great place to work”.

Our Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2026 award was not only awarded with Distinction, but it also marked us as the first UK based company to earn a Gallup Exceptional Workplace award for eleven consecutive years. We’ve also been consistently recognised by Glassdoor. We appeared in the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK list in 2023, 2024 and 2026 — and in 2026, we were the highest ranked insurance business in the UK, highlighting our strong employee experience and the positive feedback our people share on the platform.

Additionally, we were named in the LinkedIn Top Companies 2026 list of “Best midsize employers to grow your career in the UK”, and we’ve been certified as a UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. We offer a supportive and empowering culture where people are inspired to perform, given opportunities to grow, and recognised and rewarded for 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’re successful now and in the future.