Confidential briefing
Confidence: High
Elliot
Prepared for your Senior Project Manager Discovery
What stands out
The strongest signal in Elliot's Understanding wasn't experience, it was ownership: wants responsibility for outcomes rather than delivery.
That reads directly onto your side, where decision making happens close to delivery teams.
Recommended next step
Meet Elliot
Suggested first conversation:
- What ownership actually looks like inside your delivery teams.
- Which leadership behaviours bring out their best work.
- How the work here connects to something they'd care about.
You've not met before.
What we've learned
Ownership
Wants responsibility for outcomes rather than delivery. It has shaped what Elliot has moved towards, not just what they say.
Revisited deliberately, and Elliot did not soften it.
Leadership
When Elliot describes work they were proud of, it is nearly always this: describes their best managers as coaches rather than reviewers.
Heard across separate conversations months apart, described the same way each time.
Mission
Described in specifics rather than principles — repeatedly prioritises meaningful insurance impact.
Raised unprompted more than once, with different examples behind it.
Why we're confident
This began as a single remark about ownership. It has since reappeared in separate conversations months apart without changing shape.
- Ownership, leadership and mission each read the same way from Elliot's side and from yours, separately.
Their expectations sit at £97,000. No prior relationship — the reasoning carries this on its own.
Worth discussing first
- What ownership actually looks like inside your delivery teams.
- Which leadership behaviours bring out their best work.
- How the work here connects to something they'd care about.
- How decisions get made, and where they get written down.
- What would make the first year successful here.
Context
Where they are today
Elliot is currently a Senior Project Manager, based in Lisbon, Portugal. Their employer is theirs to share once you've both agreed to talk.
Where they've operated
Mostly insurance, travel and healthcare.
Elliot has moved from Delivery Manager to Senior Project Manager over 22 years — widening responsibility rather than lateral moves. Not looking, but would take the right conversation. Status: not yet connected.