Rail Project Manager: Multi‑Stakeholder Delivery Leader

Rail Delivery Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discounts on rail travel

Annual leave and life events leave

Personal development days

Season ticket loan

Pension scheme and private medical

Flexible benefits portal

Flexible working arrangements

Job summary

Rail Delivery Group is seeking an experienced Project Manager to drive delivery across multi-stakeholder rail projects. You will coordinate retailers, operators and suppliers, manage schedules and budgets, and ensure benefits are realised through a clear delivery framework.

You will lead teams, resolve issues, and communicate across audiences to reduce fraud and improve the customer experience within a structured project lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Experience of managing third-party suppliers and coordinating with internal functions, such as QA and service delivery.
• Experience of delivering complex technical projects in line with a recognised delivery lifecycle.
• Managing project scope, including benefits management, change control, configuration management, change management and requirements management.
• Experience in project scheduling – both resource and time.
• Project budget and cost control experience.
• Managing risk, understanding the risk context and demonstrating a range of risk techniques.
• Experience in dealing with external resource, including third party contracts and procurement.
• Solid understanding of a project business case and ability to translate the business case into successful delivery.
• Experience in project planning, reporting and stakeholder management.
• Experience and qualifications in standard project methodologies e.g. Prince, Agile, Scrum.
• Experience of using project tools such as Jira, Confluence, and MS Project/Smartsheet.

Responsibilities

• Develop detailed project plans, including setting milestones and adhering to deadlines; identifying risks and developing mitigation strategies.
• Establish and maintain relationships with key stakeholders.
• Be responsible for getting the work done to the right standard and adapting to the different structure and needs of specific project.
• Lead and motivate the team of people involved in the project.
• Co-ordinate with multiple work streams and teams.
• Ensure the project is running on time and to budget.
• Measure project performance using appropriate tools, and report progress.
• Dealing with changes to the project as and when necessary.
• Ensuring the outcomes and benefits of the project are delivered; and
• Working to the RDG Project Delivery Framework.

Skills

Delivery leadership

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Project scheduling

Budget and cost control

Change management

Requirements management

Prince/Scrum/Agile

Jira

Confluence

MS Project/Smartsheet

Tools

Jira

Confluence

MS Project/Smartsheet

Job description

Rail Delivery Group is seeking an experienced Project Manager to drive delivery across multi-stakeholder rail projects. You will coordinate retailers, operators and suppliers, manage schedules and budgets, and ensure benefits are realised through a clear delivery framework.

You will lead teams, resolve issues, and communicate across audiences to reduce fraud and improve the customer experience within a structured project lifecycle.