Senior Enterprise Project Leader

Faria Education Group; Loughborough; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellness Allowance

Qualification studies support

Professional development opportunities

Unlimited book budget

Job summary

Faria Education Group in the United Kingdom is seeking a Project Management Lead to set the standard for project execution across global regions. You will personally lead our largest, most complex client engagements, including multi-school groups and districts.

In this hands-on leadership role, you will build and refine frameworks, standards, and practices for a growing PM function, oversee regional Project Managers, mentor teams, and ensure structured, on-time delivery from kickoff to

Qualifications

• 5+ years of project or program management experience, with a proven track record delivering complex, multi-stakeholder client projects (such as software implementations, integrations, or data migrations).
• Demonstrated experience building project management standards, frameworks, and governance processes from the ground up.
• Direct experience leading large, highly complex enterprise- or district-level client engagements.
• Excellent cross-functional leadership skills, with the ability to manage expectations across Sales, Technical Services, and client leadership.
• Proven ability to coach and develop project managers.
• Strong scope management skills, with the ability to formalize agreements into actionable, documented project plans.
• Data-literate approach to monitoring delivery timelines, resourcing metrics, and team capacity.

Responsibilities

• Function & Standards Ownership: Define and maintain global standards, methodologies, and best practices for scoping, resourcing, running, and closing projects across all regions.
• Enterprise Delivery: Personally lead our highest-stakes and most complex client engagements, including multi-school group and district-level software implementations.
• Framework Development: Build and standardize core project management artifacts, including Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), task-estimation models, formal sign-off documents, and handover protocols.
• Team Leadership & Coaching: Guide regional Project Managers on high-risk projects and mentor team members to develop project leaders capable of leading teams across all regions.
• Scope Governance: Enforce a rigorous sign-off process for enterprise projects across Sales, Services, and Support teams prior to project commencement.
• Resource Optimization: Oversee global resourcing discipline and delivery timelines across concurrent projects, proactively resolving schedule conflicts.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Represent Project Management in cross-departmental strategy conversations to ensure commitments, handoffs, and scopes align with operational capabilities.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Mentoring & coaching

Resource planning

Governance & standards

Data-driven delivery

Education

Project management certification (PMP/PRINCE2) desirable

Tools

ClickUp

Planhat

Job description

Faria Education Group in the United Kingdom is seeking a Project Management Lead to set the standard for project execution across global regions. You will personally lead our largest, most complex client engagements, including multi-school groups and districts.

In this hands-on leadership role, you will build and refine frameworks, standards, and practices for a growing PM function, oversee regional Project Managers, mentor teams, and ensure structured, on-time delivery from kickoff to