Business Change Project Manager
Initial 6 month contract – Inside IR35 – Hybrid (Bracknell)
Role –
Our client is seeking an experience Business Change project manager to support key transformation projects, in particular to lead he continued rollout and optimisation of a major European direct-to-consumer sales pilot in UK, while also supporting the deployment of new CRM technologies designed to enhance performance.
Main Responsibilities:
* Lead end-to-end delivery of business change projects, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives
* Develops and maintains detailed project plans, timelines, and deliverables for business change initiatives.
* Leads and motivates the project team to achieve project goals while fostering a collaborative environment.
* Engages and influences stakeholders at all levels, ensuring buy-in and support for change initiatives.
* Drives effective communication and change adoption strategies across impacted teams.
* Works closely with technical project manager to ensure business change activity aligns with technical timelines and requirements.
* Identifies, assesses, and mitigates project risks and issues, ensuring minimal disruption to business operations
* Ensures project deliverables meet quality standards.
* Produces and maintains Project Charter, including defining scope and objectives.
* Tracks project performance making adjustments to schedules and plans when needed
* Manages changes to project scope, schedule, and costs, ensuring all stakeholders are informed.
* Adheres to the programme communication plan, including providing project status reports.
Qualifications, skills and experience:
Required
* Proven track record in managing complex business change projects on fast-moving, multi-faceted transformation programmes.
* A self-starter, able to identify their own priorities and the key activities to keep a programme successfully moving at pace.
* Exceptional communication skills. Able to influence, persuade, and communicate with a diverse stakeholder pool. Able to communicate appropriate, concise, and accurate information in written and verbal formats.
* A confident leader able to influence stakeholder buy in and outputs.
* Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.
* Able to take full responsibility and ownership for completion of tasks.
* Ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence without direct authority.
* Comfortable under pressure, and able to manage multiple diverse tasks within a short time-line.
* Concern for accuracy: Desire to ensure accuracy and quality in work delivered