Senior Digital Project Manager

Great British Energy Group; Swindon; Remote; GBP 92,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

UKRI is seeking a Senior Digital Project Manager for a 6-month contract, Inside IR35, largely remote with occasional travel to Swindon. You will lead a high-profile data and reporting initiative across Data, Finance, Digital and Business teams, building delivery plans and governance to enable strategic decision-making.

The role requires strong stakeholder engagement, end-to-end delivery of data projects, and hands-on project control.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering projects within data analytics, reporting or BI environments.
• Experience delivering end-to-end data-focused initiatives in a data delivery team.
• Strong project management with ownership of plans, milestones, dependencies, governance, and roadmaps.
• Experience working with stakeholders at all levels, including senior leaders and technical teams.
• Experience gathering and refining requirements with Business Analysts and technical stakeholders.
• Excellent organisational skills and ability to create structure and prioritise in complex environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience using Jira and Confluence.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage delivery plans, milestones, dependencies and critical paths.
• Coordinate delivery across Data, Finance, Digital and business teams to ensure successful outcomes.
• Manage programme governance including steering group reporting, decision logs, actions, risks, issues and dependencies.
• Monitor progress against milestones and escalate blockers as required.
• Build effective relationships with business and technical stakeholders to support communication and delivery.
• Manage project controls including schedules, resource plans, risks, and financial monitoring.
• Produce progress reports and status updates for senior stakeholders.
• Facilitate workshops and governance forums to drive delivery decisions and momentum.
• Drive resolution of cross-team dependencies and delivery challenges.
• Ensure outputs transition into business as usual and align to strategic objectives.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Data analytics

Communication

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

On behalf of UKRI, we are looking for a Senior Digital Project Manager (Inside IR35) for a 6 month contract based remote with occasional travel required to the Swindon office.We're seeking a Senior Digital Project Manager to lead the delivery of a high profile data and reporting initiative within UKRI. Working across Data, Finance, Digital and Business teams, you'll establish and manage delivery plans, coordinate stakeholders, support requirements definition and ensure the successful production of strategic reporting outputs used by senior decision makers.This is a hands on delivery role requiring strong organisational skills, excellent stakeholder engagement and proven experience delivering within complex data environments.As a Senior Digital Project Manager, your main responsibilities will be to:* Develop and manage delivery plans, milestones, dependencies and critical paths.* Coordinate delivery across Data, Finance, Digital and business teams to ensure successful outcomes.* Manage programme governance, including steering group reporting, decision logs, actions, risks, issues and dependencies.* Monitor progress against agreed milestones and success measures, resolving blockers and escalating risks where required.* Build effective relationships with business and technical stakeholders to support communication, prioritisation and delivery.* Manage project controls, including schedules, resource plans, risks, assumptions and financial monitoring.* Produce progress reports, delivery dashboards and status updates for senior stakeholders.* Facilitate workshops, planning sessions and governance forums to drive delivery decisions and maintain momentum.* Drive resolution of cross team dependencies and delivery challenges to maintain progress towards delivery targets.* Ensure outputs are successfully transitioned into business as usual operations and remain aligned to strategic objectives.Essential:* Proven experience delivering projects within a data, analytics, reporting or business intelligence environment.* Previous experience working within a data delivery team and managing end to end delivery of data focused initiatives.* Strong project management experience, including ownership of delivery plans, milestones, dependencies, governance and delivery roadmaps.* Experience working with stakeholders at all levels, including senior leaders, executive stakeholders and technical teams.* Experience gathering, refining and managing requirements in partnership with Business Analysts, technical teams and business stakeholders.* Strong organisational skills with the ability to create structure, delivery plans and priorities in complex environments.* Excellent written and verbal communication skills.* Experience using Jira and Confluence.Desirable:* Public sector experience.* Experience delivering finance, grants, reporting or analytics projects.* Experience producing or supporting executive reporting for executive stakeholders.* Experience within data transformation, data migration, reporting or business intelligence programmes.Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.Disability ConfidentAs a Disability Confident employer, UKRI encourage applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates. Applications from candidates who identify as having a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.Armed Forces / CommitmentUKRI welcome applications from veterans, service leavers, reservists and military spouses or partners. Applications from eligible candidates who meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following \"this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different\".