Senior Project Manager

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager who thrives in complex environments leads with confidence and consistently translates strategic objectives into measurable business outcomes. This role suits someone passionate about delivering highimpact initiatives influencing stakeholders and embedding strong project governance across large programmes.
You will be accountable for the endtoend delivery of large complex projects and programmes working across multiple teams portfolios and internal and external stakeholders to ensure successful valuedriven outcomes.

Key Capabilities:

Strategic & Business Acumen

• Understands the why behind initiatives not just the what
• Confidently challenges scope approach and priorities to protect business value
• Aligns delivery decisions with organisational strategy
• Engages senior leadership as a trusted peer

Adaptive Delivery Expertise

• Fluent across Agile Waterfall and Hybrid delivery approaches
• Selects methodologies based on context rather than default preference
• Operates effectively in ambiguity without waiting for perfect information

Data & AI Literacy

• Uses data to guide decisionmaking and predict risk cost and schedule impacts
• Leverages AI tools to improve efficiency in planning reporting and documentation
• Interprets and challenges data rather than simply presenting it

HumanCentred Leadership

• Recognises that successful delivery happens through people
• Creates psychological safety and motivates highperforming teams
• Leads through influence trust and credibility rather than authority
• Acts as a coach and enabler not a taskdriven manager

Change & Benefits Leadership

• Takes accountability for benefits realisation not just delivery
• Partners with change teams to ensure adoption and sustained impact
• Measures success by business outcomes not only milestones

Stakeholder & Communication Excellence

• Tailors communication with precision across diverse audiences
• Builds genuine relationships rather than managing stakeholders transactionally
• Navigates political complexity with emotional intelligence

Experience & Qualifications

• 58 years of relevant project or programme management experience delivering complex initiatives
• Relevant 3-year degree or diploma
• Project Management certification (PMP preferred)
• Agile certification (Agile PM PMIACP CSM or similar)
• Experience using delivery and governance tools such as Azure DevOps MS Project Remedy Confluence or similar

Technical Strengths

• Strong knowledge of Agile Waterfall and Hybrid methodologies
• Proven capability in risk financial governance and benefits management
• Ability to manage multiple initiatives competing priorities and complex dependencies simultaneously

Leadership & Behaviours

• Confident communicator able to simplify complex concepts
• Comfortable engaging with executive and seniorleadership stakeholders
• Commercially aware detailoriented and outcomesfocused