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Job Title: Senior Project Manager (Contract)
Location: Hertfordshire as required - once or twice a week but predominantly home based
Contract Type: Inside IR35 (through an approved umbrella)
Duration: 6 months
Day Rate: £650-£700
Start Date: Immediate (no later than the 1st of September 2025
Right to work: British Citizen or ILR (Indefinite Leave To Remain) as NO SPONSORSHIP
Overview
- We are looking for an experienced IT Workstream Project Manager to play a key role in a high-profile, cross-sector transformation programme that spans multiple utilities industries including telecoms, water, energy, rail, aviation, and highways across the UK (so must have this sector experience).
- This programme will deliver a new Target Operating Model (TOM) underpinned by modern strategic IT platforms. Your core responsibility will be to lead a workstream of quick-win IT projects that generate early value and establish critical capabilities on the path to the long-term solution architecture.
Key Responsibilities
- IT Workstream Leadership: Lead and coordinate the delivery of a portfolio of circa 30 quick-win IT projects across a complex multi-sector transformation environment.
- Planning: Pull together delivery plans utilising existing suppliers and internal teams across group and divisional IT teams.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate closely with platform leads, divisional business leads, enterprise architects, and delivery partners to define priorities and secure buy-in from senior stakeholders, including C-suite executives.
- IT Solution Shaping: Oversee the definition and scoping of tactical/bridging IT solutions that meet both local business needs and enterprise-wide architectural standards.
- Business Case Development: Develop robust business cases for quick win initiatives, working with business and IT platform leads on benefit analysis, costs, timelines, high level solution design, risk assessment, and interdependencies. Support the business platform lead when presenting business cases to Investment Board.
- Reporting & Governance: Provide structured reporting to Exec stakeholders, programme leadership, divisional directors, and programme board.
- Change Enablement: Ensure that IT quick wins contribute to broader change adoption, business readiness, and capability development across sectors.
Required Experience & Skills
- Proven success in leading IT workstreams or projects within complex transformation programmes across one or more regulated infrastructure sectors.
- Experience managing IT project delivery aligned to a strategic architecture or Target Operating Model (TOM).
- Strong stakeholder engagement experience at senior and executive levels, including regulators and cross-functional sponsors.
- Ability to deliver quick win initiatives that act as stepping stones to strategic platforms.
- Expertise in shaping and producing business cases with quantifiable benefits and solid delivery plans.
- Understanding of IT governance and compliance frameworks relevant to utilities.
- Comfortable working with both waterfall and agile methodologies across distributed teams and hybrid delivery models.
Desirable
- Multi-sector experience across utilities, transport, or critical national infrastructure programmes.
- Familiarity with enterprise platforms common in the sector (e.g. Salesforce, Oracle Fusion, Microsoft Dynamics, IFS, Procore or Sitetracker).
- Experience working within private equity delivery environments.
- Awareness of data strategy, security, and interoperability challenges in regulated sectors.
Personal Attributes
- Strategic thinker with the ability to deliver at pace while balancing sector-specific compliance and operational complexity.
- Excellent communicator with a strong presence and ability to operate credibly across technical and business domains.
- Resilient, proactive, and hands-on with a focus on outcomes and benefit realisation.
- Collaborative, inclusive, and able to build consensus across diverse stakeholder groups.
