Senior Project Manager - 12 Months FTC

Square Enix; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading gaming company in London is seeking a Senior Project Manager to oversee strategic technology initiatives. This role involves stakeholder engagement, project direction, and managing multi-disciplinary teams. Candidates should possess strong leadership and communication skills, along with a background in SaaS implementations. The position offers a hybrid working model allowing flexibility in work location.

Benefits

Hybrid working policy

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years in a senior project management role.
• Experience with SaaS, ERP, and digital technology.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of strategic technology projects.
• Engage with stakeholders to build trust and define success criteria.
• Manage risks, issues, and dependencies throughout the project.

Skills

Project Management

Leadership Skills

Stakeholder Engagement

Change Management

Agile Methodologies

Education

PMP, PRINCE2, or Agile certification

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Job Summary:

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Senior Project Manager to lead the delivery of strategic technology projects across the organisation. This role is critical to enabling business change and transition through the deployment of SaaS platforms and other digital solutions.

The successful candidate will be a change agent with strong leadership, stakeholder engagement, delivery management skills with a proven track record of managing multi-disciplinary workstreams and ensuring alignment with business goals and strategic outcomes.

This role is available on a 12 months FTC basis, covering Paternity Leave.

Requirements

Key Deliverables:

• Engage with Executive Sponsors and Senior Stakeholders to build trust, shape business change blueprints, and define measurable success criteria.
• Lead the development of business cases and ensure requirements are well-defined, analysed, and managed throughout the project lifecycle.
• Communicate project direction and purpose clearly across teams and stakeholders, ensuring timely and effective information sharing.
• Direct project teams and workstreams, developing and managing project plans to deliver technology and business change initiatives.
• Collaborate with suppliers, solution development teams, and stakeholders to agree on project approaches and delivery plans.
• Prioritise and track work across multiple teams, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with project targets.
• Identify and manage risks, issues, and dependencies, collaborating with sponsors and technical leads to resolve challenges.
• Support and guide teams in resolving escalated issues and maintaining workflow momentum.
• Facilitate team interaction and problem-solving, maintaining visibility of progress and proactively addressing external factors impacting delivery.
• Champion hybrid project methodologies, adapting delivery approaches to suit project needs and to facilitate agility.

Knowledge & Experience:

Essential:

• Extensive experience within project management in the tech industry, with at least 3 years in a senior or lead role.
• Proven experience working to implement and support the continuous development and deployment of new technology and automated services (SaaS – ERP, Digital Technology).
• Experience working with business operations and technical teams to define and deliver functional and non-functional requirements.
• Skilled in managing multi-disciplinary teams and coordinating work across solution delivery pipelines.
• Experience working with third-party suppliers to deliver technology services.
• Detailed knowledge of SaaS ecosystems, cloud-native architectures, and API integrations.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.
• Strong understanding of project management lifecycles, principles, and methodologies (Agile, Hybrid).
• Skilled in agile project management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence).
• PMP, PRINCE2, or Agile certification preferred

Desirable:

• Knowledge of ITIL or service management frameworks.
• Background in SaaS implementations and cloud-based platforms.
• Detail-oriented, logical thinker with a solutions-driven mindset

Our goal at Square Enix is to hire, retain, develop and promote the best talent, regardless of age, gender, race, religious, belief, sexual orientation or physical ability.

Our pledge to D&I

At Square Enix we believe in the importance of being a diverse and global company, and we stand firmly together against any forms of injustice, intolerance, harassment or discrimination. In our effort to create a truly diverse workforce, we pledge to continue to raise awareness in every step of the employee experience, from recruitment to promotions to ensure equal opportunities for all. One of our goals is to champion diversity in games and at work and work together to inspire real change.

Learning and education around D&I will be a key element for us to continue to grow as an organization. With unconscious bias training, D&I workshops and a variety of initiatives to give our employees the opportunity to be heard and be part of that change to achieve real equality. We need all our efforts to continue to build our culture of inclusion and equality.

We are also proud to partner with UKIE's Raise the Game pledge, BAME in Games and Women in Games, to name a few.

Hybrid Working Policy

Square Enix is pleased to be an employer that offers flexibility within the workplace.

We have a hybrid working policy which allows employees to work from the comfort of their home, three days per week, and in our amazing Blackfriars office for the other two.

Or, if being in the Office is your preference, you can choose three days working from our office and two days working from home. The choice is yours!