London IT & Digital Project Manager (6-month Contract)

Venesky Brown; Slough; Hybrid; GBP 15,867,000 - 16,236,000; Full time

Job summary

Venesky-Brown are supporting a Major UK Infrastructure Project and seek a Project Manager for an initial 6-month contract at £656.25/day (Inside IR35). Role base in London with 2-3 days on-site per week.

Responsibilities include defining and delivering Digital & IT projects, managing PIDs, schedules, risks, and stakeholders, ensuring governance and regulatory compliance, and reporting to the PMO and governance boards. Strong vendor management and multi-disciplinary leadership are essential.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering IT or business change projects in regulated or safety-critical industries.
• Experience managing budgets up to £1.5m and multi-vendor delivery.
• Strong governance, reporting and stakeholder engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the definition, planning, execution, and closure of Digital & IT projects to baselined time, cost, and quality targets.
• Develop and maintain PIDs with robust cost, schedule, and resource estimation.
• Oversee delivery partners and suppliers to meet quality and contractual commitments.
• Produce and maintain detailed project schedules and manage critical paths and resources.
• Manage all project lifecycle phases: design, build, test, deployment, business readiness and post go-live support.
• Track and manage risks, issues, and change, escalating as required.
• Ensure effective stakeholder engagement and communications to secure buy-in.
• Ensure compliance with governance, information security, and regulatory requirements.
• Provide accurate reporting to PMO and governance boards.
• Support lessons learned and continuous improvement across Delivery.

Skills

Prince2 Practitioner

APM Practitioner

MS Project

Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Vendor management

Stakeholder engagement

Budget management

IT infrastructure

Multi-vendor teams

Tools

MS Project

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Job description

Venesky-Brown are supporting a Major UK Infrastructure Project and seek a Project Manager for an initial 6-month contract at £656.25/day (Inside IR35). Role base in London with 2-3 days on-site per week.

Responsibilities include defining and delivering Digital & IT projects, managing PIDs, schedules, risks, and stakeholders, ensuring governance and regulatory compliance, and reporting to the PMO and governance boards. Strong vendor management and multi-disciplinary leadership are essential.