Project Manager

Boyes Turner; Reading; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Life Assurance (5x final salary)

Private medical insurance

Medicash & discounts

Job summary

Boyes Turner in Reading is seeking an experienced IT Project Manager to lead the end-to-end delivery of a business change project, consolidating client data, onboarding compliance checks, and coordinating data migration and system integration across functions.

You will manage cross-functional teams, vendors, and governance, ensuring on-time, within-scope delivery while maintaining data protection standards.

Qualifications

• Recognised project management qualification such as PRINCE2 Practitioner, APM PMQ, PMP or equivalent.
• Proven experience delivering medium-to-large IT projects across the full lifecycle.
• Strong experience in project planning, budgeting, governance, risk, change and assurance.
• Experience managing vendors, implementation partners and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead project delivery from mobilisation and discovery through design, build, data migration, testing, training, go-live and hypercare.
• Develop and manage project plans, milestones, critical paths, dependencies, resources and budgets.
• Own project RAID, risk, issue and change control, ensuring timely mitigation and escalation.
• Establish and maintain effective project governance, including Steering Group/Board reporting, stage-gate reviews and decision-making forums.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams across IT, Finance, Compliance, Business Development and Operations.
• Manage third-party vendors and implementation partners, ensuring delivery against agreed SLAs, milestones and contractual obligations.
• Oversee data migration, systems integration, quality assurance and go-live readiness.
• Manage stakeholder communications, executive reporting and project documentation.
• Coordinate phased cutover and rollout to minimise business disruption.
• Work with Compliance and the DPO to address data protection, DPIA and data-minimisation requirements.
• Track benefits realisation and ensure the project delivers its intended business outcomes.

Skills

PRINCE2 Practitioner

APM PMQ

PMP

Vendor management

Stakeholder mgmt

Hybrid delivery

Tools

MS Project

Smartsheet

Jira

Azure DevOps

Excel

PowerPoint

SharePoint

Job description

Working pattern:

Ideally 3 days per week

We are looking for an experienced IT Project Manager to lead the end-to-end delivery of a business change project, ensuring delivery within agreed scope, budget, quality and timelines.

The project will consolidate client, contact and matter reference data into a single trusted source, introduce automated regulatory compliance checks into client onboarding, and coordinate data migration, systems integration and business change across multiple functions.

Essential Experience & Qualifications

• Recognised project management qualification such as PRINCE2 Practitioner, APM PMQ, PMP or equivalent.
• Proven experience delivering medium-to-large IT projects across the full project lifecycle.
• Strong experience in project planning, budgeting, governance, risk, change and assurance.
• Experience managing vendors, implementation partners and cross-functional teams.
• Experience working with Waterfall, Agile or hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, facilitation and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with data migration, systems integration or business change projects.
• Good understanding of data protection principles, including UK GDPR and DPIA requirements.

Technical Skills

• Proficiency with project management tools such as MS Project, Smartsheet, Jira, Azure DevOps or equivalent.
• Strong Microsoft 365 skills, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, Teams and SharePoint.
• Understanding of systems integration, digital transformation and core business applications such as CRM, case/practice management and document management systems.
• Experience with master/reference data, MDM, CRM or case management integration, client onboarding or compliance automation.
• Experience in regulated or professional services environments, particularly where data accuracy and compliance are critical.
• Experience managing multi-vendor or geographically distributed teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead project delivery from mobilisation and discovery through design, build, data migration, testing, training, go-live and hypercare.
• Develop and manage project plans, milestones, critical paths, dependencies, resources and budgets.
• Own project RAID, risk, issue and change control, ensuring timely mitigation and escalation.
• Establish and maintain effective project governance, including Steering Group/Board reporting, stage-gate reviews and decision-making forums.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams across IT, Finance, Compliance, Business Development and Operations.
• Manage third-party vendors and implementation partners, ensuring delivery against agreed SLAs, milestones and contractual obligations.
• Oversee data migration, systems integration, quality assurance and go-live readiness.
• Manage stakeholder communications, executive reporting and project documentation.
• Coordinate phased cutover and rollout to minimise business disruption.
• Work with Compliance and the DPO to address data protection, DPIA and data-minimisation requirements.
• Track benefits realisation and ensure the project delivers its intended business outcomes.

Benefits (pro rata)

Contractual

• 25 days holiday
• Life Assurance 5 x final salary
• Private medical insurance
• Medicash and discounted retail benefits

Non Contractual

• An additional days holiday for your birthday
• A weekly wellbeing hour
• 8 hour per annum charity work
• Cycle to work scheme
• Bring your dog to work
• Social committee events
• Season ticket travel loan
• Eligible to purchase an additional five days holiday