Senior Project Manager

Stadtwerke OELSNITZ/V. GmbH; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Sagacity is seeking a Senior Project Manager to own the successful delivery of complex, high-value programmes with clients and internal teams. You will lead cross-functional delivery, manage ambiguity, and mentor others within the project and programme team.

You will interface with senior business sponsors, drive governance, and ensure quality outcomes, time, and budget adherence, while promoting continuous improvement in delivery standards.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering complex projects as a Senior Project Manager.
• Formal project management accreditation (e.g., PRINCE2, AgilePM).
• Strong leadership, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience in Utilities, Telecoms, or Financial Services is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Take full ownership for end-to-end delivery of projects to scope, time, cost, and quality.
• Lead complex projects or large programmes aligned with client objectives and SOWs.
• Define and maintain detailed project plans with milestones and dependencies.
• Monitor budgets, schedules, resources and quality, escalating risks as needed.
• Serve as primary contact for senior client sponsors and third-party suppliers.
• Provide regular status reporting to senior stakeholders and governance forums.

Skills

Leadership

Problem solving

Stakeholder management

Decision making

Client-facing

Governance

Education

PRINCE2

AgilePM

Job description

Senior Project ManagerLocation: UKRole Type: Permanent - Full TimeJob Location: Hybrid Working - minimum of 2 days a week in our London office

Sagacity are the data intelligencepeople. Our proposition isbusinesses increase customerengagement and make moreinto the data businesses alreadyhave, and combine it with our data,insight, and action. Think of us asdata co-pilots for sales, marketing,ops, billing, credit and debt - clientstypically see 5x returns within thefirst few months.

Founded in 2005, we are acustomer-centric business witha World Class +95 Net PromoterScore. We believe data should beat the heart of every companyand while we are sector agnostic,primarily our clients are in thetelecoms & media, water, andnot for profit sectors.

We are a purpose led companyand we believe that purposecomes before profit. We workas one team both with clientsand internally, and are trusted todeliver quality in our standardsand in achieving successful clientoutcomes. We are open, honestand communicate in a jargonfree, collaborative way, with all ourteams being agile and curious, andcontinuously learning to achieveour purpose. We believe that ifwe achieve our purpose theneverything else will follow.

ABOUT SAGACITY

Clever with data... combining data,insight, and action to drive value

Responsibilities

• Take full ownership for the end-to-end delivery of projects to agreed time, cost, quality, and scope, proactively managing risk, dependencies, and delivery outcomes
• Lead complex projects and/or larger programmes, ensuring alignment with client strategic objectives, contractual commitments, and statements of work
• Define, implement, and maintain project quality management approaches, ensuring deliverables meet agreed standards and
• Develop, maintain, and actively manage detailed Project Plans, ensuring milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and quality checkpoints are clearly defined and tracked
• Monitor and control budgets, schedules, resources, and quality performance metrics, escalating risks, issues appropriately
• Act as the primary point of contact for senior client sponsors, business leaders, delivery teams, and third-party suppliers
• Build strong, trusted relationships and manage stakeholder expectations at all levels, with a clear focus on quality outcomes and value realisation
• Provide clear, concise, and timely status reporting to senior stakeholders and governance forums
• Establish and operate robust project governance, ensuring compliance with agreed delivery frameworks, quality standards, and assurance processes

Senior Project ManagerResponsibilities

As a Senior Project Manager, you will lead the successful delivery of complex, high-value projects and programmes, working independently or as part of a wider programme leadership team. You will provide senior-level project management expertise across multiple (and potentially concurrent) initiatives and will act as a trusted advisor to clients and internal stakeholders.

You will be a proactive, self-motivated leader with a strong delivery mindset, capable of managing ambiguity, influencing at senior levels, and mentoring others within the project and programme team.

Responsibilities

• Ensure accurate and timely preparation and publication of weekly and ad-hoc progress reports, highlighting progress, successes, risks and remediation plans
• Act as a senior interface between business stakeholders and delivery (including technical) teams to ensure requirements are clearly understood, implemented, and validated
• Oversee the definition, documentation, and agreement of Acceptance Criteria, quality thresholds, and success measures prior to go-live
• Lead or support UAT and other validation activities, ensuring defects are prioritised, resolved, and verified prior to release
• Drive post-delivery reviews and lessons learned, embedding continuous improvement into future projects and programmes
• Support and mentor Project Managers and team members, promoting best practice in project delivery, governance, and quality management
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of project delivery standards, tools, methodologies, and quality assurance frameworks

Principle Accountabilities

• Successful delivery of projects to agreed time, cost, and quality standards
• Ownership and management of key project artefacts (PID, project
• Effective governance, stakeholder engagement, and communication
• Accurate resource and dependency management

Knowledge & Experience

• Experience in Utilities, Telecoms, or Financial Services
• Proven experience delivering complex projects as a Senior Project Manager
• Formal Project Management accreditation (e.g. AgilePM,PRINCE2)
• Strong leadership, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
• client-facing roles
• Consultancy or professional services background
• Strong planning, governance, and documentation skills (e.g. MSP,

Desireable

• PMO or programme-level experience
• Coaching and mentoring experience
• Business Analysis skills

Personal profile

• Exceptional focus on delivery and outcomes
• Confident, credible leader with the ability to influence at all levels
• Highly adaptable with the ability to learn and apply new
• Collaborative team player with a flexible, pragmatic approach
• Comfortable operating in complex, fast-moving environments

If you would like to join a unique working environment, with asociable culture, where work is done a little bit differently – and we believe ‘better’ - then we look forward to hearing from you!

We achieve this through ourcore values:

We achieve this through ourcore values

• One Team
• Quality Delivery
• Agile & Curious
• Open, Honest, SimpleCommunication

At Sagacity, we:

• believe working with our clients
• coach and mentor our clients’teams so our data and solutionsends
• believe in delivering benefits as

results