Senior Technical Transformation Project Manager

ZipRecruiter; London; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment platform is seeking a Senior Technical Transformation Project Manager to oversee a multi-year transformation programme in London. The role involves significant stakeholder management and project delivery, ensuring that projects meet time, cost, and quality standards. Candidates should have robust project management experience, including working with technical teams and stakeholders. The position offers a competitive daily rate and hybrid work options.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of project management competencies.
• Experience managing technical projects and collaborating with SMEs.
• Ability to influence and build productive relationships.

Responsibilities

• Manage key delivery workstream for transformation programme.
• Control issues, risks, and changes in scope.
• Ensure projects deliver to time, cost, and quality.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Project management methodologies

Change management

Analytical skills

Financial literacy

Education

Degree-level education or equivalent

Tools

Project management software

Job description

Job Description

This client are a leader in the Information Services industry

Senior Technical Transformation Project Manager – TSSI

Reports to: Programme Director

Direct Reports: n/a

Rate: Up to £623 per day via Umbrella

Contract: 1st September 2025 - 31st March 2026

Location: London UK, hybrid working pattern tbc

Purpose of Role:

To join a multi-year Transformation Programme which spans the whole of the Global Business, to project manage key delivery workstream/s.

Significant senior stakeholder exposure and management – experience working with c-suite stakeholders will be essential

Main Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

Project Management:

· Delivery of projects & workstreams according to agreed time / budget / scope / quality / change control criteria.

· Defining, sourcing and managing the necessary resources to complete these workstreams and sub-projects, making timely changes where necessary to achieve objectives.

· Ensuring the development of accurate plans and budgets, finding improvements to efficiency and effectiveness in the use of resources, reporting variances to senior management where there is likely to be a significant impact on agreed delivery parameters.

· Effectively controlling the issues, risk, dependencies and changes in scope associated with large, complex projects, ensuring timely intervention and communication to stakeholders.

· Conducting regular reviews of outcomes, both internally with delivery team and with clients / senior stakeholders during and after the delivery has been completed

Operational

· Establish project and workstream assurance as a formal discipline

· Proactively identify issues through the use of standard assurance techniques; audits, plan reviews, etc. Provide suggested remedial plans as appropriate

· Ensure there is sufficient capability and capacity within the function to conduct assurance reviews

· Provide regular reports on project and workstream performance and overall portfolio health

· Provide confidence that projects and workstream will deliver to time, cost and quality

· Provide ongoing project assurance for project / workstream

Customer

· Champion a culture that achieves the business goals, delights customers and keeps consumer advocacy at the heart of everything that the company does.

· Ensure that good client / consumer outcomes are at the centre of decision making.

· Promote great service and seek to exceed client / consumer expectations.

People Management (No Direct Reports)

· Contribute to people management process through assignment management of colleagues allocated to the project

· Drive Elevate Performance; ensuring that all project team members have stretching project objectives to embed a high performance culture.

· Acts as a role model, displaying a positive enthusiastic, can-do approach in the face of adversity

Regulatory, Governance and Control

· Adhere to all regulatory requirements within area of responsibility and escalate issues quickly.

· Pro-actively identify risks and take steps to mitigate these.

· Ensures team members understand the importance of adhering to their regulatory obligations and responsibility for implementation of company policies and procedures.

· Ensure team members understand the operating model and the functional and individual responsibilities

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

· Strong understanding and application of Project Management competencies including stakeholder management, contracts, scope, schedule, costs, quality, HR, communications, risk, procurement, and integration

· Experience managing technical projects and ability to collaborate with technical SME’s and delivery teams

· Strong understanding and application of change management competencies

· Effective leadership, coordination, motivation, negotiation and dispute resolution skills

· Strong ability to manage relationships whilst maintaining trusted relationship with team and peers

· Strong understanding of business requirements and technical limitations as determined by the organization’s systems and processes

· Ability to apply analytical skills and conceptual thinking to both short term and long-term operations and systems planning over a wide range of technologies

· Financial literacy to forecast and manage workstream, project and departmental budgets, costs and revenue

· Ability to influence and build productive relationships with key stakeholders (both internal and external)

· Ability to advocate and instill cultural improvement, discipline and communications

· Ability to encourage innovation

· Ability to achieve improvements in delivery quality, staff motivation and role flexibility and can operate equally well at strategic or operational levels

· Proven ability defining and executing on the Project's purpose and direction in terms of vision, mission, values and objectives

· Project governance against improved project delivery lifecycle processes and escalated risk mitigation and issue resolution

· Ability to identify and manage resource requirements

· Excellent knowledge of project management methodology and tools, including software

Desirable (not essential):

· Experience of working on projects delivering technical modular platforms

Qualifications

· Educated to degree-level or equivalent

· Continued professional development at a high level

The closing date for application is 25/07 COB so apply now!