Digital Project Manager

Balfour Beatty PLC; Dartford; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction and engineering company is seeking a Digital Project Manager to oversee key digital and technology projects on the M25 DBFO network. The role involves managing project delivery, finance, and stakeholder engagement while shaping digital change across vital transport infrastructure. Candidates should have proven project management skills and an understanding of digital technology. This is an exciting opportunity with a commitment to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Benefits

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Support for Armed Forces personnel

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven ability to manage multiple projects successfully.
• Experience in identifying and capturing project benefits.
• Skilled in status reporting on project delivery.
• Effective engagement with project-level stakeholders.
• Experience of working to a project lifecycle and developing key documentation.

Responsibilities

• Deliver digital and technology projects within the portfolio.
• Manage all commercial processes in collaboration with the CPS Commercial Team.
• Capture, measure, and track key project benefits in partnership with the Finance Team.
• Identify, report, and track project risks, issues, and dependencies.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Benefits identification

Status reporting

Digital technology understanding

Job description

Overview

As a Digital Project Manager, you'll play a key role in delivering a diverse portfolio of digital and technology projects that are transforming the way we operate on the M25 DBFO network. You'll be responsible for leading 2-3 high-impact projects at a time, ensuring they are delivered to plan, on budget, and in line with our structured methodology. This is an opportunity to grow, develop, and make a meaningful impact, working alongside senior leaders, contractors, and external partners to shape digital change across one of the UK's most vital transport networks. With another 15 years remaining on this long-term project, the role offers not only the excitement of innovation and transformation, but also the stability and security to build your career. Whether full-time, part-time, or as part of a job share, this is your chance to join a team where your ideas and expertise will help shape the future of infrastructure.

What you'll be doing

• Deliver digital and technology projects within the digital transformation portfolio.
• Follow the technology project delivery methodology, including the development of key project artefacts.
• Manage all commercial processes in collaboration with the CPS Commercial Team.
• Provide regular progress updates and status reports to the Head of Business Transformation and the Digital and Data Delivery Lead.
• Capture, measure, and track key project benefits in partnership with the Finance Team.
• Report progress at key governance forums, such as the CPS Change Board.
• Manage project finances and engage effectively with the Finance Team.
• Identify, report, and track project risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Essential: Proven ability to manage multiple projects successfully.
• Essential: Experience in identifying and capturing project benefits.
• Essential: Skilled in status reporting on project delivery.
• Essential: Effective engagement with project-level stakeholders.
• Essential: Experience of working to a project lifecycle and developing key documentation.
• Essential: Ability to shape projects and develop business cases.
• Desirable: Understanding of digital technology and its application.
• Desirable: Experience in identifying and tracking interdependencies.

Behavioural competencies

• Inspiring: Champions curiosity and continuous improvement, role modelling change and managing risks to achieve project outcomes.
• Energising: Role models positive and energised project focused attitudes towards continuous improvement.
• Challenging: Seeks and advocates improvements to add value and drive continuous performance.
• Challengeable: Encourages a culture of skilled challenging and explores challenge to enable improvement.
• Influencing: Builds commitment and consensus, and role models CPS leadership behaviours to deliver our goals.

About CPS and our commitment

CPS is a joint venture between Balfour Beatty, Atkins, and Egis. We are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential. We have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan with targeted, proactive, measurable steps to make this a reality. Read our action plan at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone. We are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to long-term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence Employer Recognition Scheme and actively encourages applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans, and reservists. As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers to employment, and we offer applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.