Senior Project Manager

Location: Stirling, Reading
Job Reference: 1336996
Role Grade: B4 - TLS

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About This Role

Summary of the role 

We are seeking an experienced and strategic Senior Project Manager to lead the delivery of complex, high-value projects across the organisation. This role will be responsible for driving project success from initiation through to completion, ensuring alignment with business objectives, timelines, and budgets. 

As a senior leader, you will manage cross-functional teams, engage with senior stakeholders, and oversee multiple projects simultaneously. You will provide clear direction, mitigate risks, resolve challenges, and maintain high standards of governance and reporting throughout the project lifecycle. 
  
What you’ll be doing 
  • Lead Manage and Deliver a project or a work stream within a programme, ensuring delivery is on time, within budget, to scope.  
  • Responsible for shaping and developing the project approach. 
  • Applies and champions the appropriate project management discipline, i.e. planning, resourcing, scheduling, monitoring, reporting and risk, issue and dependency management.  This should include effective & timely application of project stages at which lessons learned are captured and built into future plans on an ongoing basis    
  • Responsibility for distillation of complex information or data in order to get to root issues or see the bigger picture 
  • Establishes an effective project organisation structure and responsible for project team shaping, building, development, management and motivation. 
  • Responsible for the budget reporting, forecasting and expenditure associated with projects. 
  • Responsible for overall project planning & management of resources required (including well developed contingency plans) to deliver the agreed solutions. 
  • Manages and contributes to the selection of supplier delivery relationships for technical partners, software vendors and contract agencies 
  • Responsible for managing and maintaining relationships with stakeholders and key customers, ensuring delivery meets requirements 
What we’re looking for 
  • Educated to A level or equivalent experience and/ or relevant Industry qualification 
  • Accredited at Project Management discipline (practitioner level) (e.g. Certified Project Manager, APMP, Prince2 practitioner, ISEB) 
  • Previous experience with proven track record of delivery in large projects / Programmes 
  • Ability to lead and develop people effectively 
  • Excellent communication skills 
  • Proven experience and ability to influence senior management population  
  • Proven experience of managing relationships with 3rd parties 

The hiring manager to contact is: Tracy Roberts Email: tracy.roberts@diligenta.co.uk

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