Project Manager - (Manchester/ Preston)
Key Responsibilities:
- Internal Blocker Removal & Delivery Enablement (Core Focus)
- Actively identify and remove internal blockers impacting delivery:
- data availability and quality
- ownership ambiguity
- business decisions not being made
- Work proactively with constrained business teams to:
- prioritise inputs required for delivery
- extract knowledge efficiently
- reduce reliance on informal / tacit processes
- Ensure that internal dependencies do not delay project progress
- Business Engagement & Knowledge Capture
- Engage internal SP ENW teams to:
- Capture business priorities and communicate
- Facilitate structured workshop sessions
- Support business teams in transitioning to repeatable processes
- Supplier Accountability (Partnership Model)
- Work alongside the supplier to:
- ensure clarity on inputs, outputs and expectations
- maintain alignment on delivery priorities
- Hold the supplier accountable for:
- agreed milestones
- quality and usability of outputs
- Challenge where necessary, but operate within a constructive, partnership-based relationship
- Delivery Coordination & Clarity
- Maintain a clear, integrated view of:
- delivery plan using Microsoft Project
- dependencies
- risks and issues
- finances
- Ensure that:
- required inputs are defined and owned
- output expectations are explicit and testable
- Drive clarity where ambiguity exists across business teams
- Governance & Reporting
- Provide clear, outcome-focused reporting to stakeholders, including leading steering group and boards
- Ensure governance supports:
- rapid decision-making
- visibility of blockers
Person Specification:
Essential Experience
- Experience delivering or supporting complex, cross-business IT / data programmes
- Demonstrated ability to unblock delivery in resource-constrained environments
- Experience working closely with third-party delivery partners
- Strong experience of business change and process definition
- Strong financial management
- Proven ability to operate in environments with:
- ambiguity
- incomplete requirements
- evolving scope
Critical Behaviours
- Relentlessly proactive - does not wait for issues to escalate
- Comfortable chasing and challenging across all levels of the organisation
- Pragmatic and delivery-focused - prioritises progress over perfection
- Strong facilitator - can extract clarity from vague or tacit knowledge
- Resilient and persistent - able to navigate slow-moving or resource-constrained environments
Desirable
- Experience in Network related projects
- Utilities / infrastructure / engineering domain experience
- Exposure to data integration or data product delivery
GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.