Project Manager (FTC)

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Project Manager (6 - 9 Months Fixed Term Contract Maternity Cover)

Location: London

Salary: £62k - £65k

Hybrid: 2 days a week in office

The Client

Their ambition is simple: to combine their global know-how with local insight to help clients turn their business goals into reality by offering innovation, automation, and organizational design—all with a personal touch.

They have a fabulous office in Soho and go the extra mile to create a fantastic working environment for their staff, including free snacks and drinks, motorised standing desks, and amazing colleagues.

The Role

As a Project Manager, you will be part of the PM Function servicing clients on project delivery. You will be tasked with a range of strategic projects, owning their entire life cycle from inception to planning, execution, and closure. These projects can range from implementing third-party software solutions, managing the rollout of new capabilities, new market entries, to opening new operational centres for clients.

You will be an enthusiastic and dynamic professional who is passionate about delivering a great product and excited by the challenges associated with a wide range of projects. You are comfortable working independently, collaborating with teams in various locations and time zones, while managing several concurrent projects.

You will have a strong character and a willingness to try new things. You will be an excellent communicator, possess strong organisational skills, and have the confidence to challenge stakeholders when necessary.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Managing projects with multiple workstreams, including external vendors.
• Managing the entire project lifecycle, from initiation to closure, including post-implementation support.
• Agreeing and capturing project objectives, high-level scope, timeline, budget, and key deliverables with project sponsors and stakeholders.
• Working with project sponsors and stakeholders on requirements gathering.
• Establishing and owning the overall project plan, milestones, and timelines.
• Identifying, capturing, and managing risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and decisions in an organised, structured, and coherent way, escalating risks where necessary.
• Ensuring that products/deliverables are reviewed and tested, meeting the agreed acceptance criteria.
• Ensuring the agreed solution is fit for purpose, supportable, and accepted into operational support.
• Weekly reporting to stakeholders or the Steering Committee on project progress, risks, and issues to ensure the project’s overall direction and integrity, managing sponsor and stakeholder expectations.

Requirements

• Highly organised and skilled at coordinating efforts between multiple teams across various time zones.
• Proficient in managing multiple projects and stakeholders simultaneously.
• Established project management skills and detail-oriented.
• Ability to build strong relationships across the business, with clients, project teams, and third-party vendors.
• Experience working with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies is beneficial.
• Experience in issue, risk, resource, and dependency management.
• Experience in managing and achieving tight deadlines with the appropriate quality.
• Willingness to travel on an ad hoc basis as required.

If this sounds like the ideal position for you, then apply today!