Senior Project Manager

Expleo; Belfast; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology services company in Northern Ireland is seeking a Senior Project Manager to oversee complex projects. This role involves managing resources, schedules, and budgets, ensuring on-time delivery. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership and financial management skills, experience with Microsoft 365 tools, and be able to manage stakeholder relationships effectively. The company offers a collaborative environment, allowing professionals to grow their skills through inspiring projects.

Benefits

Collaborative working environment

Opportunities for skills expansion

Accredited training courses

Competitive company benefits

Qualifications

• Experience leading large-scale projects with clear accountability for milestones.
• Strong financial management skills, including budget control.
• Experience developing project plans for cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end project planning and design, tracking progress and resolving issues.
• Manage project budgets, monitoring spend, and financial reporting.
• Oversee third-party suppliers, ensuring commitments are met.

Skills

Leading technical projects

Budget control

Risk management

Resource planning

Education

MAPM, Scrum Master, PMP, Prince2

Tools

Microsoft 365 tools

Intune

Autopilot

Microsoft Defender

Job description

Overview

The Senior Project Manager will lead complex medium-to-large scale projects, managing resources, schedules, financials, and ensuring adherence to established project governance. The role involves overseeing risks, issues, and change requests to ensure successful, on-time delivery.

The role requires strong technical leadership, close collaboration with internal teams and external partners, and the ability to ensure consistent technical understanding across planning, delivery, and service transition.

The individual must have strong analytical capability to interpret data from Microsoft 365 tools and convert insights into clear, actionable recommendations that enhance productivity, security, and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end project planning and design, proactively tracking progress, resolving issues, and implementing corrective actions.
• Manage project budgets, including forecasting, monitoring spend, and reporting financial status to the Programme Management team.
• Oversee third‑party suppliers and delivery partners, ensuring commitments are met on schedule.
• Build strong, productive relationships with internal teams, vendors, and partners.
• Identify, manage, and resolve issues that may impact delivery of project objectives.
• Own and manage project risks, including development and execution of mitigation plans.
• Lead the full change control process throughout project delivery.
• Track and communicate interdependencies with other projects in the wider portfolio.
• Manage resourcing requirements to ensure project deliverables can be achieved.
• Provide timely and accurate reporting to programme management, including highlight reports and progress updates.

Qualifications

• Desirable Certifications: MAPM, Scrum Master, PMP, Prince2

Essential skills

• Leading technical projects to migrate legacy environments to the modern Microsoft 365 workplace.
• Driving adoption of M365 and maximising value from Microsoft Enterprise licensing (E5/F3), acting as a product owner or adoption champion.
• Using Microsoft 365 tools such as Adoption Score and Secure Score to embed best practice into BAU operations.
• Working with Intune, Autopilot, Defender/XDR, and compliance tools (DLP, data classification), ensuring correct configuration, optimisation, and providing guidance to strengthen security and compliance.

Desired skills

Experience with:

• Intune device management
• Autopilot build management
• Microsoft Defender and XDR
• Compliance tools such as DLP and data classification

Experience

• Experience developing detailed project plans for large, multi‑month, cross‑functional projects, with clear accountability for key milestones.
• Strong financial management skills, including budget control, forecasting, and tracking.
• Proven ability to lead large, multidisciplinary teams within a matrix organisation, ensuring on-time and high-quality delivery.
• Experience in resource planning and forecasting to ensure the right skills are available at the right time.
• Experience operating within a structured PMO environment and applying defined processes and procedures.
• Strong risk and issue management capability, including proactive mitigation and effective problem solving.
• Experience working with senior client stakeholders; utilities experience is an advantage.

Benefits

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
• ExpleoAcademy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
• Competitive company benefits
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo

Disability Confident Commitment

• As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
• Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
• Communicating and promoting vacancies
• Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
• Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
• Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive