Confidential briefing
Confidence: High
Yara
Prepared for your Senior Project Manager Discovery
What stands out
Almost everything Yara chooses to talk about circles back to ownership. Specifically: consistently describes work where the decision sat with them.
That reads directly onto your side, where decision making happens close to delivery teams.
Recommended next step
Meet Yara
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
Consistently describes work where the decision sat with them — and the examples behind it were about decisions, not responsibilities.
Revisited deliberately, and Yara did not soften it.
Leadership
Yara keeps returning to this without being asked: works best where leadership is close to the work rather than above it.
Heard across separate conversations months apart, described the same way each time.
Mission
Repeatedly prioritises meaningful insurance impact. It has shaped what Yara has moved towards, not just what they say.
Raised unprompted more than once, with different examples behind it.
Why we're confident
We expected leadership to be the deciding factor for Yara. Repeated conversations pointed at ownership instead, and it has held every time since.
- Ownership, leadership and mission each read the same way from Yara's side and from yours, separately.
Their expectations sit at £95,000. 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
Yara is currently a Senior Project Manager, based in Manchester, United Kingdom. Their employer is theirs to share once you've both agreed to talk.
Where they've operated
Mostly insurance, technology and government.
Yara has moved from Programme Manager to Senior Project Manager over 9 years — widening responsibility rather than lateral moves. Not looking, but would take the right conversation. Status: not yet connected.