Lead Project Manager

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Lead Project Management Officer to work for our client within the public sector. This is initially a 6-month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role based in London.

Our client is seeking a Lead Project Management Officer who will play a key role in driving the Plan to Make Work Pay initiative. You will also develop relationships across departments and oversee analysts to establish tools that align to strategic objectives and meet governance needs. The ideal candidate will have strong technical leadership and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Launch a function that will lead programme management across the department’s interests
• Oversee and Lead MWP Delivery Programme and ensure board governance structures are in line with strategic objectives
• Review and align different related governance/reporting structures that exist across departments
• Liaise between senior leaders, project teams and 3rd parties
• Develop the existing programme management trackers to support a new phase delivery of policy reforms on employment rights
• Explore automating data gathering processes by giving seniors leaders and SRO the ability to track critical paths, dependencies and risk
• Efficiently serve wider departments and reporting needs
• Build community of practice of project management/delivery tracking across policy teams in Make Work Pay to set guiding principles on tracking activity at local and central levels and best practice for doing
• Support the directorate to consider the flow of information from local teams to a central oversight function and track locally vs centrally the expectations

Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years’ experience in Project management within the public sector
• Experience of overseeing a team of performance and data analysts to build a tracking and reporting tool, meeting the needs of the SRO and Programme Board
• Stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Technical leadership skills in data and performance analysis
• Strong Excel and Power BI skills
• Experience gathering information to track delivery milestones and programme level risks

Why join us

• Career coaching, mentoring and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career
• Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad
• Opportunity to re-skill and up-skill into new areas, develop non-linear career paths and build a skillset within your field
• Annual leave and work-place pension

About FDM

We are a business and technology consultancy and one of the UK's leading employers, recruiting the brightest talent to become the innovators of tomorrow. We have centres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 3,500 Consultants. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer and is listed on the FTSE4Good Index.

Diversity and Inclusion

FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.