Project Manager

Project Manager

• Contract Duration: Until 31/03/2026
• Location: Hybrid (2 days a week in London ORSheffield)
• Job Type: Contract

Join our team at Reed Professional Services, a management consultancy specialising in IT and financial services. We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to work with the Technology Commercial team. This role involves supporting key projects within a prestigious, long-standing UK organisation.

Day-to-day of the role:

• Lead end-to-end delivery of projects involving SAP or finance systems, ensuring scope, timelines, and budgets are met.
• Identify, track, and manage interdependencies across projects and workstreams to mitigate risks and ensure seamless delivery.
• Maintain robust governance, providing clear reporting on progress, risks, and issues to key business stakeholders.
• Proactively identify risks and implement mitigation strategies to keep projects on track.
• Champion best practices in project and change management, contributing to process improvements and lessons learned.
• Understand the drivers to enable others to perform; show empathy but equally set clear, unambiguous targets that individuals, teams, and suppliers are held accountable to.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Proven track record of delivering complex projects in large organisations.
• Strong experience in stakeholder engagement, communication planning, and driving cultural/behavioural change.
• Hands-on experience with SAP implementations or finance transformation projects.
• Exceptional ability to influence and manage multiple senior stakeholders.
• Skilled in identifying and managing cross-project dependencies.
• Familiarity with Agile and Waterfall delivery approaches.
• Desirable: Experience in Agile/Lean teams using SCRUM, KANBAN, XP; Continuous Improvement; Microsoft Project, Jira, HP Application Lifecycle Management, and MS Office tools; Supplier Management

Benefits:

• Opportunity to work in a hybrid model
• Engage with high-profile projects in a renowned organisation.

To apply for this Project Manager position, please submit your CV and a member of the Reed Professional Services Team will be in touch