Senior Project Manager
Senior Project Manager
West London | 4 days per week in the office (work from home on Friday)
£80,000 + Annual Bonus + Pension
I'm partnering with a leading multi-site consumer-facing organisation to recruit a Senior Project Manager to join their growing technology function.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Senior Project Manager who enjoys building structure, governance and best practice, whilst also remaining hands-on in the delivery of large, complex technology and business change programmes.
The successful candidate will play a key role in establishing and embedding delivery governance, project controls, reporting frameworks and portfolio management standards across the organisation, whilst leading a range of strategic technology projects.
Key responsibilities:
- Establish and improve delivery governance, reporting frameworks, project controls and delivery standards across the technology portfolio
- Create and embed governance structures, steering committees and decision-making forums
- Own portfolio reporting, project health reporting, RAID management and executive updates
- Lead complex technology and business change projects from initiation through to implementation
- Build and maintain detailed project plans, budgets, forecasts and reporting packs
- Manage third-party suppliers and DevOps partners to ensure successful project delivery
- Lead governance forums, steering committees and executive stakeholder groups
- Work closely with technology and business teams to drive consistency and delivery excellence
- Provide visibility of project status, risks, financial performance and delivery progress to senior leadership
- Support continuous improvement and delivery maturity across the organisation
What we're looking for:
- Significant experience delivering large-scale technology and business change projects
- Proven experience setting up governance, delivery frameworks, reporting structures and project controls
- Strong programme and project planning experience
- Experience managing large, complex projects with multiple stakeholders and workstreams
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at C-suite level
- Experience managing third-party suppliers and delivery partners
- Strong commercial and financial management capability
- Good understanding of technology, systems and software delivery environments
- Strong experience across both Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies
- Ability to operate strategically whilst remaining hands-on when required
- Ideally looking for someone from a retail, hospitality, leisure, multi-site consumer facing business.
This role would suit somebody who enjoys bringing structure to delivery functions, implementing governance and controls, whilst leading business-critical technology programmes in a fast-paced environment.
If this sounds of interest, please apply with your updated CV.