Project Manager

Venesky-Brown are supporting a Major UK Infrastructure Project, who are currently looking to recruit a Project Manager for an initial 6 month contract on a rate of £656.25/day (Inside IR35). This role will be based in London 2-3 days per week.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the definition, planning, execution, and closure of Digital & IT projects to baselined time, cost, and quality targets.

- Develop and maintain Project Initiation Documents (PIDs), ensuring robust cost, schedule, and resource estimation.

- Oversee delivery partners and suppliers, ensuring quality and contractual commitments are met.

- Produce and maintain detailed project schedules, managing critical paths, dependencies, and resourcing.

- Manage all project lifecycle phases: design, build, test, deployment, business readiness, and post go-live support.

- Track and manage project risks, issues, and change requests, escalating to the Digital Construction Programme Manager Digital Construction Manager as required.

- Ensure effective stakeholder engagement and communications to secure buy-in and support.

- Ensure projects comply with governance, information security, and regulatory requirements.

- Provide accurate, timely reporting to the Digital Construction Programme Manager, PMO, and governance boards.

- Support lessons learned and continuous improvement across the Delivery function.

Essential Skills:

- Strong understanding of project management methodologies (Prince2 Practitioner, APM or equivalent).

- Skilled in MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.

- Knowledge of IT infrastructure, applications, and digital service delivery.

- Strong vendor and supplier management capabilities.

- Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills.

- Demonstrable experience delivering complex IT or business change projects in regulated or safety-critical industries.

- Experience managing budgets up to £1.5m.

- Proven ability to lead multi-vendor and multi-discipline delivery teams.

- Ability to balance compliance requirements with pragmatic delivery decisions.

- Strong leadership and team motivation skills.

- Highly organised with excellent attention to detail.

- Resilient and adaptable in a dynamic project environment.

Desirable Skills:

- Familiarity with Agile delivery practices.

- Understanding of ITIL and service transition processes.

- Previous experience delivering in construction or engineering project environments.

- Ability to promote continuous improvement across project teams.

If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.