Senior Project Manager

Sphera is a leading global provider of enterprise software and services focused on environmental, health, safety, and sustainability. The Senior Project Manager will lead large-scale Operational Risk Management initiatives, ensuring alignment with regulatory frameworks and overseeing project delivery from initiation to implementation.

Responsibilities:

• Own and deliver complex, multi-stream Operational Risk projects, ensuring alignment with regulatory and internal risk frameworks
• Act as the primary client interface, engaging senior stakeholders including Risk, Compliance, and Executive leadership
• Drive the full project lifecycle, from initiation through implementation and post-go-live optimisation
• Lead risk framework implementations (e.g., RCSA, KRI, Issue Management, Risk Appetite)
• Ensure alignment with regulatory expectations (e.g., Basel III/IV, SOX, FCA/PRA guidelines where applicable)
• Identify delivery risks and interdependencies across workstreams and proactively mitigate them
• Manage large, cross-functional teams, including business, technology, and third-party vendors
• Support business development, identifying opportunities for expansion within client engagements
• Contribute to the evolution of delivery methodologies for risk transformation programs
• Lead complex enterprise-wide transformation programs, often involving multiple geographies and business units
• Define and manage scope across interdependent workstreams
• Oversee governance structures, including steering committees and executive reporting
• Ensure robust risk and control frameworks are embedded within project delivery
• Deliver against tight regulatory deadlines and audit requirements
• Track and report on program-level KPIs, risks, and outcomes

Requirements:

• Proven experience delivering complex Operational Risk or Regulatory Change programs
• Deep understanding of Operational Risk frameworks (RCSA, KRI, controls, incident management)
• Experience working in highly regulated industries (Financial Services strongly preferred)
• Strong track record managing large-scale, high-risk, multi-stakeholder programs
• Demonstrated ability to engage and influence senior executives and regulators
• PRINCE2 / PMP (expected)
• Additional certifications in Risk Management (e.g., CRISC, FRM) are a strong advantage