Project Manager
15 days ago
London
Project Manager – Up to £46,000 + Bonus + Exceptional Benefits (Civil Service Pension) + Hybrid (Stratford, London)We're looking for a skilled and commercially-minded Project Manager to lead the successful delivery of strategic initiatives, driving projects from concept through to implementation and benefits realisation. This is a fantastic opportunity to manage high-profile programmes, work with senior stakeholders, and influence meaningful organisational change on an international scale.You'll play a key role in ensuring projects deliver measurable business value whilst balancing scope, cost, quality, risk, and stakeholder expectations.What You'll Be Doing\n\n • Leading the end-to-end delivery of complex projects and programmes, ensuring alignment with strategic business objectives.\n, • Developing and maintaining realistic, data-driven project plans that adapt to changing priorities, risks, and dependencies.\n, • Managing multi-disciplinary and geographically dispersed teams, both internally and through third-party suppliers and partners.\n, • Driving project governance, reporting, RAID management, and benefits realisation throughout the project lifecycle.\n, • Building strong relationships with senior stakeholders, influencing decisions and ensuring alignment on project outcomes.\n, • Managing budgets, resources, procurement activities, contracts, and supplier relationships to achieve value for money.\n, • Identifying and mitigating project risks while ensuring compliance with organisational and regulatory requirements.\n, • Facilitating project reviews, lessons learned, and continuous improvement activities to strengthen delivery capability.\n, • Communicating project progress, risks, dependencies, and outcomes clearly and confidently to stakeholders at all levels.\n, • Creating an environment where teams are empowered to collaborate effectively and deliver high-quality outcomes.\nWhat We're Looking For\n\n, • Significant experience delivering large, complex projects and programmes within multinational organisations.\n, • Proven ability to manage multi-million-pound budgets, resources, timelines, and competing priorities.\n, • Experience working within matrix environments and leading virtual, geographically dispersed teams.\n, • Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and engage senior leaders and executive-level audiences.\n, • Demonstrable experience managing third-party suppliers, contracts, and external delivery partners.\n, • Strong governance, risk management, compliance, and assurance experience.\n, • Experience using project planning and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Miro, Microsoft Project, Planner, and related platforms.\n, • Excellent communication, presentation, and reporting skills.\n, • Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on delivery execution.\nDesirable Experience\n\n, • Delivery of digital, online, technology, or transformation programmes.\n, • Experience negotiating and managing commercial contracts and supplier agreements.\n, • Experience delivering learning, education, assessment, or customer-focused programmes.\n, • Experience operating within highly regulated or governance-focused environments.\n, • Exposure to Agile, Hybrid, and traditional project delivery methodologies.\nQualifications\n\n, • Degree or equivalent professional experience.\n, • Project Management certification such as PRINCE2, PMP, Agile, SAFe, or equivalent.\nProject Manager – Up to £46,000 + Bonus + Exceptional Benefits (Civil Service Pension) + Hybrid (Stratford, London)