Project Manager - Limited Partner Services

About Alpha Group

Alpha Group is a leading global consultancy to the financial services industry. Founded in 2003, Alpha has spent over 20 years bringing together specialist, sector-focused strategy, management consulting, and technology expertise to support the entire client transformation lifecycle. Having partnered with more than 1,200 clients worldwide across the asset and wealth management, alternatives, and insurance industries, Alpha is a trusted advisor for complex change programs.

We now have over 1,180 consultants working with clients across North America, the UK, Europe, the Middle East, and APAC. In 2024, in recognition of our successful track record and strong growth prospects, Alpha was acquired by Bridgepoint, one of the world's leading quoted private asset growth investors.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Many of our team have built long and fulfilling careers with us, often staying for over a decade. Alpha offers a genuinely rewarding place to work: a meritocratic environment where your career can flourish, and a welcoming culture where you can be yourself, connect with others, and thrive.

As we look to the future, we’re excited to be looking for new Alpha colleagues—individuals who are collaborative, innovative, and ambitious. We hope you will join us and help shape the next chapter of our growth journey.

Why join Alpha?

• Established yet entrepreneurial – with over 20 years of success and a proven record on the London Stock Exchange, Alpha offers the stability of an established consultancy with the energy of a fast-growth business.
• Backed by Bridgepoint – as part of one of the world’s leading growth investors, Alpha benefits from strategic investment that fuels innovation, expansion and new offerings – creating even more opportunity for our people.
• Exposure to senior leadership – whether you are in an internal or a client-facing role, you will have the opportunity to work with and learn from the best of the best – high performers at the top of their game.
• Learning and growth opportunities – we run tailored training to help you be successful, provide you excellent mentorship, and offer up to 5 days paid training time per year. Perhaps the best training though is the experience on the job – as everyone at Alpha has high responsibility and autonomy, you can develop your skillsets quickly.
• Performance-driven culture with real impact – advancement at Alpha is based on impact and capability, not tenure or quotas. You’ll have autonomy and see the tangible difference your ideas and decisions make.

About Alpha Alternatives

Alpha Alternatives, part of Alpha Group, is a fast-growing global consulting practice focused on leading digital and operational transformation projects for the alternative investment industry, encompassing private equity, real estate, private debt, credit, and infrastructure.

We are known for our expertise, innovation, and commitment to delivering exceptional value to our clients. Our people work side by side with clients to identify, address, and resolve key operational and technology challenges within alternative investments and financial services firms.

We often find that the best innovation comes from within—our role is to help empower client teams to drive the change required. Collaboration and support are at the heart of what we do, and we look for consultants who embody these values and bring firsthand experience in the challenges and enabling technologies that drive success in alternatives.

About the Role

Alpha Alternatives is looking to hire a Project Manager with proven experience in Project Delivery and a minimum of 5 years’ experience in the Financial Services and/or Private Equity / Real Estate industries.  The successful candidate should enjoy managing transformative change within some of the world’s top tier fund, asset and investment managers, have the ability to handle multiple concurrent projects, and have outstanding documentation and interpersonal skills.  This goes beyond ensuring projects meet time, budget and scope constraints. This is achieved by people, processes, systems and support.

Responsibilities

The Project Manager will be charged with bringing the best ideas and knowledge out of Alpha Alternatives people, projects and partnerships. The Project Manager will work as part of the global PMO framework in defining and implementing consistent project management methodologies and frameworks across a diverse set of client engagements.

Key objectives of this role are to:

• Deploy consistent project management practices;
• Project value realization;
• Onboarding & training efficiency; and
• Consistent client experience & branding.

Experience & Skills

• A project management qualification, and respective organization membership in good standing is compulsory. For e.g.: PMP with PMI membership.
• Education and work experience in the Financial Services and/or Private Equity / Real Estate industries
• Experience defining business process flow, requirements definition, testing and/ or test management
• Experience leading all or some aspects of a project end-to-end
• Preparing professional project documentation to support each phase of the project management process
• Detail-oriented
• Ability to work on multiple projects; understanding status, issues and risks of each project and ensuring the project reporting is kept current.
• Experience facilitating meetings and leading meetings (as appropriate) in relation to for e.g.: requirements definition, process review, risk mitigation, issue resolution, status review, steering committee and/ or executive committee presentations
• Good communicator with an ability to understand how and when to raise/ escalate risks, how to protect the project and project team from scope creep and/ or other factors that can derail project progress
• Contribute towards evolving the PMO function at Alpha Alternatives, supporting our consultants, to efficiently deploy projects while always delivering value to our clients.

Our Commitment to Inclusion
At Alpha, diversity, equity and inclusion are critical to our success. Our priorities show a focus on fostering an inclusive, equitable workplace where individuals are treated fairly regardless of gender or background. We welcome applications from disabled people and are committed to making our recruitment process and workplace accessible and inclusive for everyone.