Senior Digital Project Manager - CONTRACT - Inside IR35 - 9 month

Futureheads; Islington; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Une agence de recrutement numérique B Corp accréditée basée à Londres recherche un Senior Digital Project Manager pour un programme public à haut profil. Le poste implique la coordination des activités de plusieurs projets de réduction des dettes technologiques, en utilisant des techniques agiles tout en travaillant dans un environnement hybride principalement axé sur la méthode waterfall.

Qualifications

• Expérience solide dans des rôles de livraison de projets numériques, idéalement à la fois au niveau des projets et des programmes.
• Confiance à gérer la planification et la livraison sur plusieurs projets interdépendants.
• Compétences excellentes en communication et en engagement des parties prenantes.

Responsibilities

• Soutenir l'équipe principale dans la planification et le suivi au niveau du programme.
• Faciliter la coordination entre les équipes de livraison, aider à gérer les interdépendances et les priorités.
• Contribuer à la gouvernance des parties prenantes, la planification des jalons, les tableaux de bord de livraison.

Skills

Digital project delivery

Stakeholder engagement

Agile techniques

Waterfall delivery

Job description

Senior Digital Project Manager - Contract - Inside IR35 - 9 month - Newcastle

We’re on the lookout for aSenior Digital Project Managerto join a high-profile, public sector programme focused on reducing legacy technology risk across a large and complex IT estate. This is a contract role that offers the chance to operate atprogramme level,supporting core planning, oversight, reporting, and governance across 50+ tech debt reduction projects.

This isn’t your typical delivery role. You won’t be managing individual digital projects. Instead, you’ll play a key part in coordinating and enablingenterprise-wide delivery,working alongside the Programme Lead to build structure, remove blockers, and ensure teams have what they need to deliver confidently.

You’ll work in a hybrid delivery environment that’s mostly waterfall (given the need for full service readiness), but enhanced withagile ways of workinglike stand-ups, retros, and iterative planning.

What you’ll be doing:

• Supporting the core team to deliver programme-level planning, tracking, and reporting
• Facilitating coordination across delivery teams, helping to manage interdependencies and priorities
• Contributing to stakeholder governance, milestone planning, content decks, and delivery dashboards
• Enhancing team operations using agile principles (capacity planning, retrospectives, stand-ups, etc.)
• Supporting internal initiatives such as recruitment mapping, commercial oversight, and contract management
• Building strong relationships with internal and external delivery partners to align effort and outcomes
• Ensuring timely and accurate delivery reporting across the programme, supporting both executive and working-level updates

You’ll bring:

• Strong experience indigital project deliveryroles, ideally at both project and programme levels
• Confidence managing planning and delivery acrossmultiple interdependent projects
• Experience working in hybrid environments, comfortable with waterfall delivery, but fluent in agile techniques
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, able to work across teams and functions
• Familiarity with complex tech estates andlegacy systemsis a plus
• A pragmatic, proactive mindset – someone who can create structure where it’s needed and keep momentum moving

We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, so if there is anything we can do to make our recruitment processes better for you and to allow you to show your best self, let us know. We also understand that some people require extra time to complete assessments, require alternative application methods and can also benefit from having interview questions or a guide to the type of questions pre-interview. We are open to any suggestions or requests that you may have and are always looking for creative ways to assess talent. Our commitment to you is that you should always feel safe and secure when you’re working with us. Futureheads is a B Corp accredited digital recruitment agency based in London. We specialise in recruiting permanent, contract and freelance digital and tech professionals in creative, data, design, digital marketing, engineering, product, project and programme management, UX and service design jobs.