Junior Project Manager

Our client is a well-established organisation within the leisure, travel, and tourism industry.

They are looking for a Junior Project Manager to join the team on a permanent basis.

This role will require travel to the Woking office 1-2 days per week (flexible.)

This role is responsible for the end-to-end delivery of IT projects and change initiatives, from concept through to deployment, service transition and benefit realisation.

Client Details

Our client is a well-established organisation within the leisure, travel, and tourism industry. They are looking for a Junior Project Manager to join the team, on a permanent basis. This role will require travel to the Woking office 1-2 days per week (flexible.) This role is responsible for the end-to-end delivery of IT projects and change initiatives, from concept through to deployment, service transition and benefit realisation.

Description

Project Delivery

• Own full lifecycle delivery of IT projects
• Deliver to agreed time, cost and quality targets
• Define scope, plan, budget and resources
• Manage multiple concurrent projects

Planning & Governance

• Develop business cases, plans, RAID logs and communication plans
• Follow organisational governance frameworks
• Provide status reporting and audit trail of decisions

Risk, Issue & Change Management

• Manage risks and issues and escalate where required
• Maintain RAID logs and lead reviews
• Manage formal change control processes

Financial & Commercial Management

• Manage budgets, forecasting and spend
• Ensure financial governance compliance
• Work with procurement and suppliers

Stakeholder Management

• Engage stakeholders across IT and business
• Communicate at all levels including senior leadership
• Act as delivery point of contact

Business Change & Transition

• Define as-is and to-be processes
• Ensure business readiness and adoption
• Manage transition into BAU

Benefits Management

• Define and track benefits
• Report benefit realisation

Resource Management

• Build and manage project teams
• Allocate and track work across teams

Profile

• Experience delivering IT projects end-to-end
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Matrix delivery experience
• Supplier management experience
• Knowledge of Agile/Waterfall/DevOps
• Commercial awareness
• Strong communication skills

Job Offer

A competitive salary with hybrid working arrangements. Strong wider benefits package available, as well as great career progression opportunities