Howdens are growing and with that are looking for a new Project Manager to join our busy projects team and look after business systems projects.
This role will work across multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and aligned to strategic objectives.
This is a permanent full‑time work working onsite at least 4 days per week.
What you will be doing.
* Define project scope, objectives, and deliverables, ensuring alignment with stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
* Develop project plans, budgets, and schedules, securing buy‑in from technical teams and resource managers.
* Establish and maintain appropriate project governance, documentation, and reporting standards.
* Identify, engage, and manage stakeholders across business, technical, and strategic teams to ensure effective communication and collaboration.
* Monitor project progress, proactively managing risks, issues, dependencies, and changes to ensure successful delivery.
* Support project teams by providing guidance, removing obstacles, and ensuring resources are efficiently allocated.
* Conduct project closure activities, capturing lessons learned and ensuring benefits realisation is measured.
Dimensions: Projects range from 12 weeks to 18 months, involve 5–30 resources, and budgets up to £3m+.
What we need from you
* Project Management qualification (APM PMQ, APM PPQ, PRINCE2 Practitioner and/or PMI PMP)
* At least 3 years working in a project management role
* Experience using MS Project or Monday project tooling is advantageous
* Experience using Azure DevOps or similar (i.e. Jira or Confluence)
* Able to demonstrate a strong understanding of Project Management practices including project planning, risk and issue management, stakeholder management, change management, different methodologies, and project budget management processes
* Proven track record of multiple successful deliveries of complex/cross‑functional projects, using different methodologies
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Strong interpersonal, persuasion, influencing and team engagement skills
What we can offer you
* Competitive salary and annual company bonus
* Excellent pension scheme (company contribution of up to 12%)
* 25 days holiday + bank holidays with the option to buy additional days
* Staff discount
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Exceptional Reward and Recognition events
How to apply
If Howdens sounds like the kind of place where you can build and develop your career, then we’re keen to hear from you.
If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, please email recruitmentteam@howdens.com with the job title and location, and we will be happy to help you.
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