Senior Project Manager

Location: Nottingham (3 days office, 2 days remote)

Role Overview:

The Project Manager leads low to medium complexity IT projects, ensuring delivery meets agreed requirements within timescale, cost, and quality constraints. This role involves leading a team, working independently on standard projects, and under limited supervision on complex projects.

Key Responsibilities:

Planning & Estimating:

• Develop and own project plans, resource plans, and financial forecasts
• Oversee and validate project estimates from various teams and third parties
• Ensure estimates cover all identified work and represent value for money

Project Delivery:

• Drive end-to-end delivery of projects within agreed constraints
• Manage progress against plans, resources, and budgets
• Ensure projects meet agreed business requirements
• Follow change control processes for any changes to timescales, cost, or requirements
• Foster effective collaboration among all teams involved in delivery
• Proactively manage risks, issues, and dependencies
• Record and share lessons learned throughout the project lifecycle
• Set clear expectations and hold colleagues, partners, and suppliers accountable

Process & Quality:

• Ensure compliance with project delivery methodology and processes, promoting continuous improvement
• Ensure compliance with governance frameworks, including internal approvals and KPIs
• Adhere to Service Introduction and Change Management processes

Finance & Reporting:

• Produce and maintain financial forecasts by tracking budgets, actuals, and invoices
• Ensure costs are incurred only against approved funds and authorized values
• Ensure timely closure of purchase orders and internal orders after final invoices/costs

Stakeholder Management:

• Build strong relationships with senior business management, understanding their priorities and project benefits
• Develop and implement project communications plans to engage key stakeholders and drive commitment to success

Team Leadership:

• Ensure the project team has appropriate structure, headcount, roles, and skills
• Lead and motivate the team, providing coaching and guidance
• Develop business knowledge within the team
• Ensure clarity of responsibilities and provide regular feedback on performance
• Inspire the team to continually improve ways of working

Performance Measures:

• Delivery of projects to time, cost, and quality
• Projects delivered right first time, providing reliable systems and cost-effective support
• Positive feedback from business on deliverables, stakeholder engagement, and partnering
• Positive feedback from partners and third parties on joint working
• Contribution to improving solution delivery capability and project delivery methodology
• Team feedback on collaboration and support
• Business team feedback on support provided

Skills & Experience:

Essential:

• Experience managing end-to-end IT project delivery
• Familiarity with relevant IT project delivery methodology and processes
• Experience leading a team
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills

Desirable:

• Experience managing projects with onshore and offshore teams
• Experience in a retail organization
• Expert knowledge of processes in relevant business areas (e.g., Finance, Supply Chain)
• Project management qualification (e.g., APMP, Prince2)

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary package.
• Medical insurance.
• Flexible schedule.
• Opportunities for career growth and professional development.
• Supportive and collaborative work environment.
• Modern office space in Nottingham with easy access to transport.

We’re grateful for your interest in joining our team. Kindly note that only applicants whose experience and qualifications most closely align with the role will be contacted for the next steps. Thank you for your understanding.