Senior Project Manager
Rate: £104,000 annually [subject to pro-rata]
Duration: 6 months
Location: Hybrid working model
Overview
We are recruiting a Senior Project Manager to play a key delivery leadership role within a large‐scale transformation programme spanning multiple strategic priorities and interdependent deliverables. The programme is enterprise‐wide and highly complex, requiring strong orchestration, governance discipline, and senior‐level stakeholder engagement.
This role will take ownership of integrated delivery planning across multiple workstreams, driving execution, resolving dependency risks, and supporting leadership decision‐making.
Key Responsibilities
* Own and drive the integrated delivery plan across multiple deliverables, managing milestones, critical path activities and complex dependencies.
* Lead portfolio‐level delivery cadence, including senior forums, portfolio syncs, and decision governance.
* Maintain and actively manage a single dependency log, ensuring risks, impacts and escalation routes are clearly owned and actioned.
* Own programme‐level RAID and decision management, ensuring mitigations are robust and slippage is addressed early.
* Produce concise, decision‐ready governance packs tracking delivery progress against agreed OKRs and value outcomes.
* Identify delivery contention, resourcing constraints and sequencing risks, proposing re‐planning, trade‐offs and mitigations to leadership.
* Coordinate cross‐cutting inputs from specialist teams (e.g. methodology, digital, data), removing bottlenecks and maintaining momentum.
* Support the effective transition of change into BAU by overseeing readiness planning, cutover coordination and early adoption risk management.
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
* Extensive experience leading complex transformation programmes with multiple interdependencies.
* Strong command of integrated planning, dependency management and delivery governance.
* Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and SMEs in matrix environments.
* Highly effective at unblocking issues and driving decisions at pace.
* Confident communicator with experience reporting at senior leadership or executive level.
* Practical understanding of change absorption into BAU and managing concurrent delivery.