Senior Project Manager
hace 5 días
London
As a Senior Project Manager, you will lead the successful delivery of complex, high-value projects and programmes, working independently or as part of a wider programme leadership team. You will provide senior-level project management expertise across multiple (and potentially concurrent) initiatives and will act as a trusted advisor to clients and internal stakeholders. \n You will be a proactive, self-motivated leader with a strong delivery mindset, capable of managing ambiguity, influencing at senior levels, and mentoring others within the project and programme team. \n Responsibilities \n\n • Take full ownership for the end-to-end delivery of projects to agreed time, cost, quality, and scope, proactively managing risk, dependencies, and\n, • delivery outcomes\n, • Lead complex projects and/or larger programmes, ensuring alignment with client strategic objectives, contractual commitments, and statements of work\n, • Define, implement, and maintain project quality management approaches, ensuring deliverables meet agreed standards and client expectations\n, • Develop, maintain, and actively manage detailed Project Plans, ensuring milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and quality checkpoints are clearly defined and tracked\n, • Monitor and control budgets, schedules, resources, and quality performance metrics, escalating risks, issues appropriately\n, • Act as the primary point of contact for senior client sponsors, business leaders, delivery teams, and third-party suppliers\n, • Build strong, trusted relationships and manage stakeholder expectations at all levels, with a clear focus on quality outcomes and value realisation\n, • Provide clear, concise, and timely status reporting to senior stakeholders and governance forums\n, • Establish and operate robust project governance, ensuring compliance with agreed delivery frameworks, quality standards, and assurance processes\n, • Ensure accurate and timely preparation and publication of weekly and ad-hoc progress reports, highlighting progress, successes, risks and remediation plans\n, • Act as a senior interface between business stakeholders and delivery (including technical) teams to ensure requirements are clearly understood, implemented, and validated\n, • Oversee the definition, documentation, and agreement of Acceptance Criteria, quality thresholds, and success measures prior to go-live\n, • Lead or support UAT and other validation activities, ensuring defects are prioritised, resolved, and verified prior to release\n, • Drive post-delivery reviews and lessons learned, embedding continuous improvement into future projects and programmes\n, • Support and mentor Project Managers and team members, promoting best practice in project delivery, governance, and quality management\n, • Contribute to the continuous improvement of project delivery standards, tools, methodologies, and quality assurance frameworks\n\n Principal Accountabilities \n\n • Successful delivery of projects to agreed time, cost, and quality standards\n, • Ownership and management of key project artefacts (PID, project plans, reports, RAID etc)\n, • Effective governance, stakeholder engagement, and communication\n, • Accurate resource and dependency management\n\n Requirements \n Knowledge and Experience \n Essential: \n\n • Experience in Utilities, Telecoms, or Financial Services\n, • Proven experience delivering complex projects as a Senior Project Manager\n, • Formal Project Management accreditation (e.g. AgilePM, PRINCE2)\n, • Strong leadership, problem-solving, and decision-making skills\n, • Extensive stakeholder management experience, including senior client-facing roles\n, • Consultancy or professional services background\n, • Strong planning, governance, and documentation skills (e.g. MSP, programme environments)\n\n Desirable : \n\n • PMO or programme-level experience\n, • Coaching and mentoring experience\n, • Business Analysis skills\n\n Personal Profile: \n\n • Exceptional focus on delivery and outcomes\n, • Confident, credible leader with the ability to influence at all levels\n, • Highly adaptable with the ability to learn and apply new concepts quickly\n, • Collaborative team player with a flexible, pragmatic approach\n, • Comfortable operating in complex, fast-moving environments\n