Senior Project Controller & Programme Lead

Itchyfeet Recruitment Agency; United Kingdom; Presencial; GBP 85.000 - 110.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Our client is seeking a Senior Project Manager to provide project control, project office, and programme support across complex change initiatives. This full-time, permanent role demands governance, reporting, and control frameworks to ensure successful delivery of projects and programmes.

You will track milestones, deliverables, risks and changes and promote standard PM practices across Change Management. The role emphasizes alignment with sponsors and stakeholders, ensuring benefits

Formación

• Experience providing project controls for complex change initiatives.
• Ability to consolidate project information into clear management reports.
• Proficiency with MS Office and portfolio/project tools.

Responsabilidades

• Develop and maintain proportionate project-control arrangements for complex or critical projects, including integrated plans, milestone and deliverable tracking, dependency management, change control, risk mitigation actions, resource allocation and contingency plans.
• Assess project information for completeness and consistency, identify material divergences and provide clear escalation to project or programme leadership.
• Prepare consolidated status reporting, dashboards and governance materials for project steering committees, programme forums and the Change Management Committee.
• Coordinate governance calendars, decision-making forums, reporting cycles and assurance requirements across assigned projects or programmes.
• Maintain traceability between approved business cases, project deliverables, expected outcomes and business benefits.
• Track the timing, ownership and status of business benefits, highlighting variances from the approved business case for management review.
• Coordinate programme-level dependencies, resource requirements, risks and issues, ensuring impacts across related workstreams or projects are visible.
• Support project and programme leads with scope definition, delivery planning, implementation readiness, handover and post-implementation review.
• Provide day-to-day supervision, guidance and quality review for project support resources where assigned, without necessarily holding formal line-management responsibility.
• Develop and promote consistent project-management templates, reporting standards, controls and working practices.
• Facilitate meetings and workshops involving stakeholders across business areas and locations, ensuring decisions, actions and accountabilities are clearly recorded.
• Contribute to lessons learned and continuous improvement of the project and programme governance framework.
• From time to time, your role may be adapted to support the implementation of new processes, systems or control requirements.

Conocimientos

Project controls

Integrated planning

Milestone tracking

Dependency management

Change control

Risk & issue management

Resource planning

Contingency planning

Herramientas

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

PowerPoint

Visio

Descripción del empleo

Our client is seeking a Senior Project Manager to provide project control, project office, and programme support across complex change initiatives. This full-time, permanent role demands governance, reporting, and control frameworks to ensure successful delivery of projects and programmes.

You will track milestones, deliverables, risks and changes and promote standard PM practices across Change Management. The role emphasizes alignment with sponsors and stakeholders, ensuring benefits