Senior Project Manager
1 day ago
Bath
Do you get excited about balancing hands-on project delivery with broader programme oversight, ensuring consistency, efficiency, and quality across initiatives? Cloud Direct is looking for a Senior Project Manager to lead the delivery of complex, high-impact deployment and migration projects. This role also includes programme management responsibilities, overseeing a portfolio of related projects to ensure strategic alignment with organisational objectives. The Senior Project Manager will drive successful outcomes through effective planning, execution, and stakeholder collaboration. What you'll do: • Project Delivery: Plan, manage, and deliver large-scale projects from initiation to closure, ensuring completion on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards. Create and review project plans whilst retaining a highly flexible approach to change., • Programme Oversight: Coordinate and monitor a portfolio of projects, ensuring alignment with strategic goals, resource optimisation, and risk mitigation across the programme., • Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including clients, team members, and senior leadership, ensuring clear communication and expectation management., • Risk and Issue Management: Identify, assess, and mitigate risks and issues at both project and programme levels, implementing proactive solutions to maintain momentum., • Resource Allocation: Oversee resource planning and allocation across projects, ensuring efficient use of personnel, budget, and tools., • Governance and Reporting: Establish robust governance frameworks and provide regular updates to senior management on progress, risks, and outcomes. Enforce and evolve best practises and internal process for documentation and delivery., • Team Leadership: Mentor and guide project teams, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture while supporting professional development. Collaborate with Solution Architects, Consultants and your Practice Area colleagues to deliver enterprise-level Azure Public Cloud, Data & AI and Microsoft Modern Workplace solutions., • Continuous Improvement: Drive process improvements and adopt best practices in project and programme management methodologies (e.g., PRINCE2, Agile, PMI)., • Financial Oversight: Manage project and programme budgets, ensuring cost control and financial accountability., • Compliance: Ensure all projects and programme activities comply with organisational policies, UK regulations, and industry standards. What we're looking for: • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Management, or a related field., • A Master’s degree or professional certifications (e.g. PRINCE2 Practitioner, PMP, AgilePM or PgMP) are highly desirable., • 10+ years of project management experience, including at least 3 years in a senior project management or programme management role., • Proven experience managing complex, multi-disciplinary projects with budgets exceeding £250k., • Strong stakeholder management experience, including engagement with C-suite executives and cross-functional teams., • Professional background in IT consulting, technology, or solutions delivery., • Strong leadership and team management capabilities., • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with experience managing senior stakeholders., • Proficiency in project management tools and methodologies., • Strategic thinking with the ability to align projects and programmes with organisational goals., • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to risk management., • Proficient in the Microsoft Office Suite, including Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project and Visio. What we offer: • Responsible Time Off (uncapped annual leave), • Fitness Cash Contribution, • Pension Contribution, • Employee Assistance Programme, • Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave, • Life Assurance, Critical Illness, and Income Protection, • Birthday lunches, a Fun Fund, and more We believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential to our success. We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and strive to build a team that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We encourage candidates of all races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, ages, abilities, and socioeconomic statuses to apply!