Project Manager

Vista; Cardiff; Híbrido; GBP 55.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Vista in Cardiff seeks an experienced Project Manager to lead national IT and data infrastructure rollouts across multiple retail or commercial sites, coordinating people, suppliers, logistics, budgets, risks and technical delivery from initiation to closure.

Reporting to the Senior Project Manager, you will manage governance, stakeholder communications and multi-site readiness, including structured cabling deployments (Cat6/Cat6A), ensuring quality, safety, and on-time delivery across dispersed

Formación

• Substantial experience in project management within national, multi-site IT or data infrastructure environments.
• Strong governance, planning, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Experience with large-scale deployment programmes from initiation to closure.
• Proficiency with project management tools and reporting.

Responsabilidades

• National rollout leadership: end-to-end responsibility for planning and delivering national IT and data infrastructure programmes across multiple sites, from mobilisation and pilot activity through to full deployment and closure.
• Programme planning and control: Build and maintain robust rollout plans, schedules, trackers, governance controls, and reporting to manage milestones, dependencies, resources, risks, issues, and change.
• Project governance: Establish and maintain an effective governance framework, including clear roles and decision-making authority, regular project boards and review meetings, stage-gate approvals, accurate status reporting, and timely escalation of risks, issues, dependencies, and decisions.
• Multi-site coordination: Sequence and coordinate activity across geographically dispersed locations, ensuring site readiness, access, materials, engineering resources, and technical dependencies are aligned.
• Technical delivery oversight: Manage structured cabling and associated infrastructure installations, including Cat6 and Cat6A solutions, containment, and related technologies, ensuring delivery meets the agreed design and quality standards.
• Stakeholder and customer management: Act as the primary point of contact for customers, suppliers, subcontractors, and internal teams, providing clear communication, managing expectations, and driving timely decisions.
• Resource, supplier, and logistics management: Coordinate field engineers, subcontractors, supply-chain partners, equipment, and logistics to support efficient and consistent delivery at scale.
• Commercial and governance management: Control budgets, forecasts, project documentation, risks, issues, scope, and change to maintain predictable delivery and clear accountability.
• Quality, compliance, and handover: Ensure installations comply with health and safety requirements, relevant standards, technical best practice, and agreed acceptance criteria, with accurate handover documentation completed for each site.

Conocimientos

Stakeholder management

Governance and reporting

Leadership

Communication

Delivery of multi-site IT/data infra

Risk and issue management

Vendor/subcontractor coordination

Project controls (scope, budget, etc.)

Educación

PRINCE2 Foundation

ITIL Foundation

Herramientas

Microsoft Project

Excel

Smartsheet

Dashboarding

Descripción del empleo

Project Manager

Reporting to: Senior Project Manager

Schedule: M onday – Friday standard office hours. Maybe required to work alternative hours to suit customer and business needs

Location: Cardiff office

Department: Project Services

Purpose

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager with a strong track record of successfully managing national IT and data infrastructure rollouts across multiple retail or commercial sites. The successful candidate will have led complex, large-scale deployment programmes from initiation through to completion, coordinating people, suppliers, logistics, budgets, risks, and technical delivery across geographically dispersed locations. Strong stakeholder-management, governance, and communication skills are essential, alongside sufficient technical understanding to oversee infrastructure installations effectively.

Key Responsibilities

• National rollout leadership: Take end-to-end responsibility for planning and delivering national IT and data infrastructure programmes across multiple sites, from mobilisation and pilot activity through to full deployment and closure.

• Programme planning and control: Build and maintain robust rollout plans, schedules, trackers, governance controls, and reporting to manage milestones, dependencies, resources, risks, issues, and change.

• Project governance: Establish and maintain an effective governance framework, including clear roles and decision-making authority, regular project boards and review meetings, stage-gate approvals, accurate status reporting, and timely escalation of risks, issues, dependencies, and decisions.

• Multi-site coordination: Sequence and coordinate activity across geographically dispersed locations, ensuring site readiness, access, materials, engineering resources, and technical dependencies are aligned.

• Technical delivery oversight: Manage structured cabling and associated infrastructure installations, including Cat6 and Cat6A solutions, containment, and related technologies, ensuring delivery meets the agreed design and quality standards.

• Stakeholder and customer management: Act as the primary point of contact for customers, suppliers, subcontractors, and internal teams, providing clear communication, managing expectations, and driving timely decisions.

• Resource, supplier, and logistics management: Coordinate field engineers, subcontractors, supply-chain partners, equipment, and logistics to support efficient and consistent delivery at scale.

• Commercial and governance management: Control budgets, forecasts, project documentation, risks, issues, scope, and change to maintain predictable delivery and clear accountability.

• Quality, compliance, and handover: Ensure installations comply with health and safety requirements, relevant standards, technical best practice, and agreed acceptance criteria, with accurate handover documentation completed for each site.

Essential Experience and Skills

• Relevant delivery background: Substantial experience in project management within national, multi-site IT or data infrastructure environments; this is the key requirement for the role.

• Project controls expertise: Strong knowledge of scope, budget, schedule, quality, risk, dependency, and change controls within complex deployment programmes.

• Multi-site operational awareness: A clear understanding of the readiness, access, resource, supply-chain, logistics, and handover considerations that affect delivery across geographically dispersed locations.

• Project management systems: Proficiency in Microsoft Project, Excel, Smartsheet, or comparable tools for scheduling, data analysis, dashboarding, and management reporting.

• Leadership and communication: Strong written, verbal, negotiation, and influencing skills, with the confidence to engage senior stakeholders and secure decisions.

• A proactive, practical approach to resolving delivery challenges and managing multiple workstreams and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

• Practical understanding of structured cabling and associated technologies, including Cat6 and Cat6A installations, containment, testing, and quality assurance.

Desirable Qualifications

• PRINCE2 Foundation or Practitioner certification or equivalent.

• ITIL Foundation certification or equivalent service-management qualification.

• Experience delivering infrastructure rollouts within retail or similarly operational, multi-site environments