Ref: MGCON2811
Location: Stevenage (SG1)
Hybrid: 3 days in the office, 2 days WFH
Hours: Monday to Friday 8am-5pm
Pay: £550 - £650 per day
Duration: Ongoing Contract Long Term
Duties - The Project Manager will play a pivotal role in coordinating and executing activities that underpin the successful delivery of our V3 Platform Development. This role ensures structured planning, effective execution, and alignment across technology, business, and vendor teams in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
- Operating within our IT Governance Framework, the Project Manager will bring rigour to delivery, proactively manage risks, and support the Programme and Delivery Leads in driving momentum, quality, and clarity across all streams.
- Support the orchestration of all Platform Development (V3) workstreams, ensuring alignment, synchronisation, and smooth execution.
- Maintain and evolve project plans, schedules, and delivery roadmaps to ensure clarity of objectives, timelines, and dependencies.
- Facilitate regular stand-ups, planning sessions, and checkpoint meetings, ensuring actions, owners, and follow ups are consistently tracked.
- Work closely with the SI Project Lead and technical delivery teams to ensure transparency, effective prioritisation, and alignment to scope.
- Support the management of change requests, ensuring correct documentation, impact assessment, and adherence to governance.
- Track deliverables from vendors, ensuring milestones are met and quality criteria are satisfied.
Person Specification - Experience delivering complex technology and transformation projects.
- Strong grounding in both business and technical delivery, with the ability to translate between the two effectively.
- Structured and disciplined approach to governance, RAID management, and reporting.
- Excellent stakeholder management & communication skills across all organisational levels.
- Ability to coordinate multiple concurrent workstreams with clear prioritisation.
- Confident managing suppliers and navigating SI delivery models.
- Experience working in Agile, Iterative or Hybrid delivery environments.
- Financial acumen, including cost tracking and commercial awareness.
- Professional certifications preferred: AgilePM, Scrum Master, PRINCE2, Six Sigma.