Interim Project Manager

STARK Group; Coventry; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Working

Discretionary bonus

Retirement savings plan

Life assurance

Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave

Voluntary benefits including holiday buying

Health and wellbeing services

Job summary

STARK Group is seeking an Interim Project Manager for a 12-month fixed term contract in Coventry. The role involves leading and coordinating data initiatives, ensuring successful delivery and measurement of benefits.

Responsibilities include managing complex IT/data programs, creating delivery plans, and engaging stakeholders. The position supports a hybrid working model with 4 days in the office and 1 day WFH, alongside various benefits including a discretionary bonus and access to well-being services.

Qualifications

• Experience in project management within MS Azure environments.
• Ability to manage both project activities and external partners.
• Experience in ambiguous or evolving environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coordinate, and structure data initiatives.
• Create and maintain delivery plans, timelines, and RAID logs.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and manage risks.

Skills

Project management of complex IT and data programmes

In-depth experience of working on data projects

Project planning tool(s) usage

Risk and issue identification and management

Stakeholder management and communication

Job description

We're proud to be part of STARK Building Materials UK and dedicated to providing top-quality products and exceptional service to our customers. We're a friendly and collaborative team, passionate about what we do and committed to doing it well.

We're recruiting for an Interim Project Manager to join us for a 12-month fixed term contract within our Data and Analytics team. The scope of the role is to lead, coordinate, and structure a portfolio of data and analytics initiatives, ensuring activities are clearly defined, governed, positioned for successful delivery and delivered, with expected benefits realised.

The business is undertaking a series of data-related initiatives aimed at improving insight capability, rationalising tooling, and strengthening the overall data platform.

Key areas of focus include:

• Decommissioning of Phocas and transition to Azure and M365, including Power BI
• Review, assessment and implementation of Databricks to replace Synapse and Informatica pipelines and notebooks
• Carbon reporting tool for customer use
• Discovery and shaping of additional data initiatives (may include automated quotations, dynamic pricing, product enrichment)

Given the evolving nature of the scope, this role will focus on structuring, planning, and governing activity, as well as enabling and managing delivery.

• Establish a clear view of all in-scope and emerging data initiatives
• Define scope boundaries, objectives, and success criteria for each activity
• Develop and propose delivery roadmaps and associated sequencing

Planning & Governance

• Create and maintain delivery plans, timelines, and RAID logs
• Align with existing governance structures and reporting methodologies
• Ensure alignment with IT and business priorities

Delivery Oversight

• Coordinate cross-functional teams across IT, Data, and Business stakeholders
• Track progress against milestones and manage risks and dependencies
• Manage initiatives to time and budget, realising benefits at agreed milestones
• Ensure initiatives are set up for successful execution where delivery extends beyond the contract
• Support early-stage discovery activities where scope is not yet defined
• Translate emerging requirements into structured plans and work packages
• Prepare initiatives for transition into live service

Stakeholder Engagement

• Facilitate alignment across senior stakeholders
• Provide clear, concise updates to the IT Exec
• Act as a central coordination point across multiple workstreams
• Portfolio view of data initiatives (including status and prioritisation)
• Structured delivery plans and timelines for key initiatives
• RAID logs and governance artefacts
• Defined and documented delivery approach for each initiative
• Successful delivery with measured and realised benefits

Required Skills and Experience

• Project management of complex IT and data programmes, including in MS Azure environments
• In-depth experience of working on data projects
• Project planning tool(s) usage
• Risk and issue identification and management
• Previous work in ambiguous or evolving environments
• Ability to operate at both strategic and operational levels
• Capable of managing project activities themselves; and managing external partners to their delivery plans
• Stakeholder management and communication

What’s in it for you?

• Hybrid Working – 4 days at our Binley, Coventry office and 1 day WFH.
• Discretionary bonus
• Retirement savings plan
• Life assurance
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave for anyone expecting or adopting a child
• A wide range of voluntary benefits including holiday buying, discounted gym membership, car salary sacrifice scheme, Cycle2Work, Benenden Healthcare and more.
• Access to a wealth of health and wellbeing services including access to online GP appointments and mental health support.
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