Senior Manager Strategic Projects

OVERVIEW

At DF Capital, we champion banking for ambition. As an award-winning provider of consumer finance, commercial finance and savings, we empower our customers with financial solutions tailored to fuel their growth and ambitions. Headquartered in Manchester, our team of over 130, serves thousands of customers across the UK

We’re passionate about helping our customers succeed. As we expand our retail and commercial lending products, we remain committed to meeting their evolving needs and supporting their ambitions every step of the way.

OUR STORY

Founded in 2016, DF Capital was born with a focus on distribution finance - providing dealers, distributors, and manufacturers with the funding they need to stock, display, and sell products, without straining cash flow.

Since then, we’ve delivered over £3.5bn of funding across diverse sectors. From motorhomes and machinery to motorbikes and lodges, we’ve financed all shapes and sizes of commercial vehicles and automobiles (no planes or trains - yet). We listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange in 2019.

BECOMING A BANK

In 2020, we became a fully authorised bank, extending our offering with savings products for retail depositors. We’re proud of our strong customer service, consistently achieving high satisfaction scores - like our current average rating of 4.8/5 from 1,200+ reviews, which also earned us a Platinum Trusted Service Award.

In March 2025 we were given permission to lend to consumers and we wrote our consumer business in May 2025.  So, the deposits we’re entrusted with fuel UK businesses through our commercial lending, and UK consumers through our asset finance products creating a virtuous cycle of growth.

WHERE WE’RE HEADED

Our goal is simple: to be the best bank - for our customers and each other. We put customer needs first, continuously looking to improve our proposition on their feedback. We aim to help more customers in more ways while continuing to deliver exceptional service.

How do we achieve this? By hiring people who care deeply about doing the right thing, we’ve been recognised as ‘World Class to Work For’ by Best Companies, and we're proud of our inclusive, sustainable, and progressive workplace.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

 We are entering another exciting chapter of the DF Capital story, as we look to turbo-charge our ambitions and significantly scale the business. If you're passionate about providing great customer experiences, developing great propositions and want to be part of building a winning and positive sales culture, then we want to hear from you.

OUR CULTURE

DF Capital is a very special place to work. We have an amazing team who commit themselves each and every day to bring our ambitious growth plans to life. We’ve achieved much on our journey so far, but I believe we have our best days ahead of us.

We’ve established a unique culture that is built on a virtuous circle where engaged and empowered employees who are powered by a shared purpose deliver great outcomes for our customers, our communities, the environment and ultimately our shareholders. This is why we are rated a world class place to work and are amongst the best companies to work for in the UK.

THE ROLE:

We are looking for a strategic partner to our Senior Leadership team to support and manage our cross functional key initiatives to ensure alignment of our teams and priorities.

This is a newly created role to our organisation to both improve and enhance our leadership effectiveness, aligning team efforts and ensuring efficiency across projects and business operations.

Taking an enterprise view of activity at DF Capital, the Business Planning Manager will be tasked with reviewing the end-to-end workstack for SLT members to ensure prioritisation and balance is loaded appropriately to support business needs during a further period of growth for our business.

RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES:

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:

• Ability to turn enterprise wide actions, initiatives and strategic goals into an executable programme of work.
• Ability to improve internal processes, removing barriers and ensuring smooth day to day operations across the enterprise-wide portfolio of activity, identifying inter-dependencies and conflicting deliverables.
• Ability to build bridges between departments, improving communication and ensuring everyone is aware of shared objectives and activity.
• Ability to co-ordinate and drive projects forward, engaging with and tracking senior stakeholders by deploying your proven strong project management skills.
• Ability to tackle and address issues within the programme before they escalate or cause downstream impact, holding stakeholders at all levels to account.
• Ability to build and maintain cross functional relationships with key stakeholders in order to deliver the enterprise-wide programme.
• Deep operational understanding across projects, targets and expectations to ensure smooth functioning in a fast paced, agile organisation.
• Provide decision-making support through analysis and recommendations.
• Act as the lead across special projects where required from conception through to execution.
• Supporting with change initiatives to align with organisational goals fostering a positive culture.

• Previous large scale project management experience
• Strong stakeholder management experience
• Strong operational understanding, providing cross-functional operational oversight
• Excellent organisational skills to performance monitor against our group objectives
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to execute work expediently
• Experienced in utilising tools/frameworks to track progress ensuring appropriate governance and therefore outcomes
• Provide data led insights to guide decision making and strategy

• Private medical insurance for you and your family
• 10% Employer pension contribution
• 30-day annual leave entitlement plus Bank/Public Holidays
• Free Gym Membership
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Discretionary share awards
• Life Assurance
• Income Protection
• Save As You Earn company share acquisition scheme
• Tax efficient salary sacrifice scheme to obtain bicycles and electric vehicles
• 4 days of paid Volunteering leave to support our local communities
• Vibrant office location in the lively city centre of Manchester