Senior Digital Project Manager
CCL Global is seeking several Senior Digital Project Managers to support a major UK defence organisation delivering complex digital projects and programmes within a highly regulated environment.
The successful candidates will take end-to-end ownership of digital project delivery, managing business cases, budgets, suppliers, governance, risks, project controls and senior stakeholders to deliver agreed outcomes to time, cost and quality.
Location: Salisbury – Hybrid, 3 days per week on site
Contract: 24 months
Security Clearance: Active SC essential
Key Responsibilities
- Lead complex digital projects through the full project lifecycle.
- Establish delivery methodologies, project plans, controls and governance.
- Coordinate and develop project business cases and supporting documentation.
- Manage budgets, forecasts, expenditure and project performance.
- Lead project teams and coordinate resources across multiple workstreams.
- Manage senior internal and external stakeholders.
- Identify and manage risks, issues, dependencies and mitigating actions.
- Produce reporting to support governance and senior decision-making.
- Coordinate assurance and gateway reviews. Manage project change and associated controls.
- Oversee contracts and strategic suppliers, ensuring delivery against agreed time, cost and quality.
- Provide leadership, coaching and guidance to project teams.
Essential Experience
- Significant Digital Project / Programme Management experience.
- Demonstrable delivery of complex projects to time, cost and quality.
- Strong project planning, governance and controls experience.
- Business case development and excellent written communication skills.
- Budget management, forecasting and reporting.
- Strong risk, issue and dependency management.
- Contract and supplier management experience.
- Strong people leadership and senior stakeholder management capability.
- Ability to operate across complex organisational and project boundaries.
- APM PMQ or equivalent demonstrable digital project delivery experience.
- Active SC clearance is mandatory.
Desirable
- APM PPQ / Registered Project Professional.
- ITIL.
- PRINCE2 and/or Agile experience.
- Process and organisational change experience.
- Strong commercial awareness.