Project Manager / Business Process Manager
Location: Reading
Contract Type: Day Rate, £700/£800 Inside IR35
Duration: 12 months +
Role Overview
Stanton House are working with A Manufacturing Business who are looking for a Project Manager / Business Process Manager to support a major business transformation programme. This is a business-facing role, focused on delivery from the organisation side rather than as a purely IT-led project.
The programme will span multiple workstreams, engage a large and diverse stakeholder group across locations, and run over a multi-year period. The successful candidate will play a critical role in coordinating delivery, ensuring alignment, and driving progress across complex and interdependent initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
* Coordinate and manage business-side programme delivery across multiple workstreams
* Drive stakeholder engagement and alignment across a broad and diverse user base
* Lead and support change management activities to ensure successful adoption
* Maintain oversight of risks, issues, and action tracking, ensuring timely resolution
* Deliver effective communication and reporting across all levels of the business
* Support requirements gathering, documentation, and validation
* Facilitate process mapping and design activities
* Collaborate with system integrators (SI) to define business requirements for build
* Assist in testing coordination and execution
* Support waterfall delivery processes from requirements through to implementation
* Provide additional functional analyst-style support where required
Programme Scope
The transformation programme currently includes two primary workstreams:
1. Budgeting & Forecasting (Greenfield)
* Designing and implementing new processes from the ground up
* Driving simplification and standardisation
* Coordinating closely with other workstreams
* Navigating complex stakeholder environments and internal dynamics
2. Reporting
* Delivering structured, data-driven reporting solutions
* Leveraging outputs from ERP transformation calculations
* Working within a more rule-based, data-centric environment
Team Structure
* Reporting into and working closely with the business leadership team
* Partnering with the Head of FP&A and wider programme leadership
* Supporting a blended team of:
* Backfilled business SMEs
* Project-focused contributors
* Change and testing specialists
* Additional functional analyst support may also form part of the wider team
Skills & Experience
Essential:
* Proven experience as a Business Project Manager within complex programmes
* Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
* Excellent interpersonal and influencing abilities
* Experience managing risks, issues, and delivery actions
* Ability to operate in a dynamic, multi-stream environment
* Strong organisational and administrative capability
* Experience with EPM (Enterprise Performance Management) projects
* Exposure to finance, ERP, or transformation programmes
* Background in business process design and improvement
* Experience performing functional analyst responsibilities
What We’re Looking For
We are looking for someone who is:
* Pragmatic, flexible, and delivery-focused
* Comfortable working in complex, evolving environments
* Able to build strong relationships and manage sensitivities
* Equally confident in structure and adaptability
* Focused on driving outcomes rather than rigidly following process