Senior Project Manager

JR United Kingdom; Bradford; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job description

Senior Project Manager – Business Transformation / Business Change – £60K - £70K + excellent benefits – FTC 1 year

Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire with Hybrid Work Arrangements (1 – 3 days a week in the office)

Our client, a leading organisation in the region, is looking for a Senior Project Manager on a Fixed Term Contract (1 year) to deliver large and complex strategic programmes of change centred around Target Operating Models and ways of working for:

• Deploying a new managed store-room
• Supply Chain
• Logistics

You will manage projects with budgets of between £1m - £10m across multi-functional business areas and having complex people, process, IT and data deliverables to co-ordinate in order to achieve significant efficiencies, better outcomes and contributing to the organisational health of the business.

The Senior Project Manager will lead a team of Project Managers to implement successful transformation within the department, driving forward projects throughout their end to end delivery lifecycle in line with the company’s standard change management framework.

This role will play an important part in delivering the business unit’s plan and goals in line with the company’s strategic objectives, realising short to long term benefits, delivering significant efficiencies, better outcomes and contributing to the organisational health of the business.

The Senior Project Manager will be comfortable engaging with stakeholders at all levels of the business, delivering papers and presentations and leading meetings. They will be a strong people leader who will manage their team effectively, work closely alongside the Programme and Project Management community throughout the business unit as well as with company-wide networks to deliver quality change and outputs.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Proven background of delivering large projects of Business Transformation within an Enterprise environment, ideally within the Utilities industry.
• Advanced Stakeholder Management and very strong interpersonal skills.
• Experience working within a Senior Project Management capacity within a Business Transformation / Business Change capacity specifically with Supply Chain and Logistics projects.
• Qualified in programme management disciplines e.g. MSP, Institute of Change Management, Prince 2 practitioner, Agile.
• Experience of managing professional teams of business change delivery people including programme staff, project managers and business analysts.
• Experience of working within a complex business change environment and understanding of business plans and strategic initiatives.
• Significant understanding of IT and commercial environments.
• Advanced financial knowledge and management skills.
• Ideally experience in the Utilities or Water industry.