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Job Title: Project Manager - SDLC - LEAP Transformation Project
Location: Remote - UK based
Salary/Rate: £690-£819 Per day inside IR35 (depending on relevant experience)
Start Date: July 2025
Job Type: Contract 12 months

Company Introduction

Our client, a global publishing company, seeks a Project Manager who has strong experience in executing plans to onboard customers to a new technology system.

That experience should be current or recent and be demonstrated on the CV.

Candidates should have experience delivering projects through the full Software Development Life Cycle and be highly Agile in their delivery.

You will take ownership of the delivery of the LEAP Transformation Project, the project is in-flight and is 3 years into the 4-year plan.

Our client is looking for a Project manager who can deliver on the current plan. Key Stakeholders are based in UK, Amsterdam, USA and India. Experience working with Stakeholders in various global locations is a must.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

* Ensuring LEAP Project delivers its key business outcomes and hold team members to account

* Facilitating effective communication among project teams, stakeholders, and senior leadership, ensuring transparency and alignment

* Collaborating with stakeholders across our organisation to execute deliverables, manage delivery road-maps, establish project schedules and resolve issues

* Aligning project deliverables and tasks to vision/strategy

* Maintaining mechanisms for the definition and tracking of all program activities including budget, risks, benefits and dependencies

* Developing excellent working relationships with all stakeholders

* Project reporting, risk and dependency management

* Providing project governance and reporting to ensure standards are followed

* Identifying and understanding internal and external dependencies to ensure deliverables are executed in a sequence that achieves successful business outcomes

* Contributing to best practices, improving our methodology and quality of delivery across our projects

* Manage multiple workstreams/teams to achieve project goals


Required Skills/Experience

* Experience and skills in delivering large and complex transformational projects in a cross-functional, global matrix organisation with multiple dependencies

* Complex problem-solving experience and assessing the impact of change on the critical path.

* Demonstrate experience applying and coaching different project management methodologies (Agile/Scrum, Waterfall, Scaled Agile.)

* Consultative and collaborative approach to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders up to VP level.

* Be a natural communicator, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders and present technical content to a range of audiences

* Be able to create, understand,d and maintain a high-level road-map and align and manage project deliverables and tasks for successful delivery

* Use of Jira as a Project Management tool.

* Have experience managing risk and issues to deliver and creating proactive mitigation plans, especially in a technical environment

* Have experience in managing and monitoring project budgets and forecasts


If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.


Disclaimer

Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.



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