Our client is seeking a Senior Project Manager to provide project control, project office, and programme support expertise across complex or business-critical change initiatives. This full-time, permanent position requires effective governance, reporting, and control frameworks to ensure the successful delivery of projects and programmes. The Senior Project Manager will work closely with business sponsors and stakeholders to oversee performance and ensure alignment with organisational objectives and expected value. In this role, you will be responsible for tracking milestones, deliverables, risks, and changes that may impact project delivery. You will also incorporate guidance and quality oversight for project support resources, promoting consistent project management standards across the Change Management function.
JOB DUTIES:
- Develop and maintain proportionate project-control arrangements for complex or critical projects, including integrated plans, milestone and deliverable tracking, dependency management, change control, risk mitigation actions, resource allocation and contingency plans.
- Assess project information for completeness and consistency, identify material divergences and provide clear escalation to project or programme leadership.
- Prepare consolidated status reporting, dashboards and governance materials for project steering committees, programme forums and the Change Management Committee.
- Coordinate governance calendars, decision-making forums, reporting cycles and assurance requirements across assigned projects or programmes.
- Maintain traceability between approved business cases, project deliverables, expected outcomes and business benefits.
- Track the timing, ownership and status of business benefits, highlighting variances from the approved business case for management review.
- Coordinate programme-level dependencies, resource requirements, risks and issues, ensuring impacts across related workstreams or projects are visible.
- Support project and programme leads with scope definition, delivery planning, implementation readiness, handover and post-implementation review.
- Provide day-to-day supervision, guidance and quality review for project support resources where assigned, without necessarily holding formal line-management responsibility.
- Develop and promote consistent project-management templates, reporting standards, controls and working practices.
- Facilitate meetings and workshops involving stakeholders across business areas and locations, ensuring decisions, actions and accountabilities are clearly recorded.
- Contribute to lessons learned and continuous improvement of the project and programme governance framework.
- From time to time, your role may be adapted to support the implementation of new processes, systems or control requirements.
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
- Strong working knowledge of project controls, integrated planning, milestone tracking, dependency management, change control, risk and issue management, resource planning and contingency planning.
- Ability to analyse and consolidate project information and produce clear management reporting and presentations.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio and relevant project management or portfolio tools.
- Demonstrable experience providing project controls, project-office or programme support services for complex or critical change initiatives.
- Experience consolidating information across multiple workstreams or projects and escalating material variances.
- Structured and analytical, with a strong focus on governance, accuracy and delivery control.
WHAT YOU'LL LOVE:
In this role, you will have the opportunity to contribute significantly to the success of critical change initiatives, working alongside diverse stakeholders. You will be a vital part of a dynamic team promoting consistency and excellence in project management practices. The role offers the potential for career progression within a challenging and stimulating environment that values your insights and expertise.
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