Senior Project Manager

Corporate Travel Management (CTM) Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work pattern (3 days in office)

Private healthcare (Medicash)

EmployeeWellbeing & EAP

Learning platform (CTM Learning)

Annual conference (All Stars)

Leadership development programs

Job summary

Corporate Travel Management (CTM) Group seeks a Senior Project Manager to lead end-to-end governance for UK Government Special Projects. You will coordinate CTM functions, clients and suppliers, ensuring contractual and commercial dependencies are managed and approvals documented.

In a fast-moving, highly confidential environment, you will drive mobilisation activity, manage risks and ensure projects progress in line with governance and profitability targets, without altering ownership authority.

Qualifications

• Proven project management experience in complex commercial/operational environments.
• Experience coordinating multiple internal functions and external stakeholders.
• Strong governance, planning and organisational skills.
• Experience managing risks, issues, dependencies and actions.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication abilities.
• Ability to meet tight deadlines and manage competing priorities.
• Meticulous project documentation and control.
• Government contracting or public-sector project experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide end-to-end project management and governance for CTM's UK Government Special Projects.
• Ensure engagement of CTM functions, clients and suppliers at appropriate stages.
• Identify and manage contractual, commercial and operational dependencies and necessary approvals.
• Maintain governance, profitability objectives and mobilisation plans across projects.
• Support a central project management discipline without replacing functional ownership.

Skills

Project management

Governance & compliance

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Communication

Attention to detail

Cross-functional coordination

Job description

To provide CTM with dedicated project management discipline and governance for high-value Government Special Projects, ensuring that contractual, commercial, operational and financial requirements are aligned and appropriately controlled from project inception through mobilisation, go-live and ongoing change.

This role requires a pragmatic, experienced Senior Project Manager who can operate with a high degree of autonomy, manage complexity across parallel workstreams, and maintain momentum in a fast-moving and highly confidential environment. The Senior Project Manager will provide dedicated end-to-end project management and governance for CTM's UK Government Special Projects, including new projects, extensions, variations, contract changes and mobilisation activity.

The Senior Project Manager will ensure that the appropriate CTM functions, clients and suppliers are engaged at the right stage; contractual, commercial and operational dependencies are identified and managed; required approvals are obtained; decisions are documented; and projects progress in accordance with agreed governance, contractual requirements, profitability objectives and mobilisation plans.

The role will not replace functional ownership or approval authority. Instead, it will provide the central project management discipline required to ensure that each function delivers its responsibilities within the overall project plan and that no project progresses without the appropriate controls and approvals.

• Proven project management experience within a complex commercial or operational environment.
• Experience managing projects involving multiple internal functions and external stakeholders.
• Strong governance, planning and organisational skills.
• Experience managing risks, issues, dependencies, actions and critical paths.
• Experience of contract implementation, change management or commercial projects.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines and manage competing priorities.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to maintain accurate project documentation.
• Government contracting or public-sector project experience.
• Experience working with Government Frameworks or complex contractual arrangements.
• Commercial or financial project management experience.

What to expect from the recruitment process

• Every hire starts with a chat with our Talent Acquisition team, if your profile is selected you will be contacted by phone or email (please check your spam folder);
• Then, if you are progressing, the hiring manager will invite you to an interview, usually on Teams;
• If you are successful we will invite you to our office for a final stage interview.

Wherever possible we will provide you with feedback, however we are a small team and often we won't be able to do so until after we fill the vacancy.

CTM is a responsible employer and is dedicated to conduct thorough right to work checks.

CTM is an equal opportunity employer. We want to make sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know: as a Disability Confident Committed, we’re here to support you in any way we can. Do not hesitate to connect with our Recruitment team if you need to discuss arrangements.

Reward & Recognition

Our learning platform CTM Learning, our annual conference the All Stars, our High-Performance programme and a global leadership programme.

Employee Wellbeing and Flexibility

Our wellbeing platform Vitality, our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), our new private healthcare Medicash + our mental health first aiders.

Most of our roles offer a hybrid working pattern, with 3 days per week in the office. Where permitted and depending on the role, we can offer flexible start and finish times to suit your other commitments and support a healthy work‑life balance. We are committed to finding a setup that works for you and the business.

Sustainability Focus

Principles of Governance, People, Planet, and Prosperity, CTM’s Sustainability Strategy identifies material issues and outlines initiatives to achieve this.

CTM is the Data Controller with respect to the personal information you provide during your application. We will use this information solely to process your application, and our legal basis is that you are considering taking up an employment contract with us. We may share this information with our parent company in Australia, but otherwise we will not disclose it to any other organisation. If you take up employment with us, we will keep the information for the duration of your employment, otherwise we will destroy it 2 months after the post is filled.

All the information that we ask for in application forms has to be completed for your application to go ahead. There is no profiling or automated decision making applied to the personal information you supply. You have all the legal rights with your personal data as laid out in the General Data Processing Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018, including the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office. Our Data Protection Officer may be contacted at [e-mail]

In our UK and European operations, CTM uses LinkedIn to process applications for open job roles. Using only the information submitted by the applicant, LinkedIn automatically filters applications based on the criteria set by CTM’s recruitment team.

Note that this role requires a DBS and a security clearance process (you must have lived in the UK for 5 consecutive years to be eligible) and a DBS check. Do not apply if you are not willing to undergo these conditional background checks, this continually applies during the course of your employment.

You can read about SC on the government site - National security vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK