Business Project Manager
Posted 2 days ago by Project People
Negotiable
Fixed-Term
Hybrid
Reading, England, United Kingdom
Summary: We are seeking an experienced Business Project Manager to lead strategic business change initiatives in a fast-paced organization. The role focuses on delivering business transformation, improving operational processes, and ensuring strong stakeholder engagement. This position is a 12-month fixed-term contract with a hybrid working arrangement, requiring a minimum of 2 days per week in central Reading.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of business and transformation projects across multiple workstreams.
- Drive business change initiatives, ensuring smooth adoption, engagement, and operational readiness across impacted teams.
- Manage project governance, reporting, and controls in line with PMO standards and delivery frameworks.
- Own and maintain RAID logs, ensuring risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies are proactively identified, tracked, and mitigated.
- Facilitate stakeholder workshops, steering groups, and governance forums to support decision-making and project alignment.
- Develop and manage detailed project plans, timelines, resource forecasts, and status reporting.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams including Operations, Technology, Commercial, Finance, Procurement, and third-party suppliers.
- Support procurement and commercial activities and ensure business requirements are clearly defined, documented, and translated into deliverable outcomes.
- Track project budgets, financial forecasts, and delivery milestones while identifying opportunities for efficiency improvements.
- Drive continuous improvement across project delivery, business processes, and operational ways of working.
Key Skills:
- Proven experience working as a Business Project Manager within a complex business or transformation environment.
- Strong experience delivering business change and operational transformation initiatives.
- Demonstrable experience managing RAID logs, governance processes, and stakeholder reporting.
- Strong understanding of project delivery methodologies including Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid approaches.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at all levels of the organisation.
- Experience working with PMO frameworks, project controls, and reporting standards.
- Strong commercial awareness with experience managing budgets, forecasts, and project financials.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Reading
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: fixed-term
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
We are seeking an experienced and driven Business Project Manager to lead and support the successful delivery of strategic business change initiatives across a fast-paced and evolving organisation. This role is ideal for a commercially minded Project Manager who thrives on delivering business transformation, improving operational processes, and driving cross-functional collaboration. You will play a key role in ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and aligned to wider business objectives while maintaining strong governance and stakeholder engagement throughout the project lifecycle. This is a 12 month fixed term contract offering great benefits. This is a hybrid role with a minimum of 2 days per week in central Reading.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of business and transformation projects across multiple workstreams.
- Drive business change initiatives, ensuring smooth adoption, engagement, and operational readiness across impacted teams.
- Manage project governance, reporting, and controls in line with PMO standards and delivery frameworks.
- Own and maintain RAID logs, ensuring risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies are proactively identified, tracked, and mitigated.
- Facilitate stakeholder workshops, steering groups, and governance forums to support decision-making and project alignment.
- Develop and manage detailed project plans, timelines, resource forecasts, and status reporting.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams including Operations, Technology, Commercial, Finance, Procurement, and third-party suppliers.
- Support procurement and commercial activities and ensure business requirements are clearly defined, documented, and translated into deliverable outcomes.
- Track project budgets, financial forecasts, and delivery milestones while identifying opportunities for efficiency improvements.
- Drive continuous improvement across project delivery, business processes, and operational ways of working.
Skills & Experience Required
- Proven experience working as a Business Project Manager within a complex business or transformation environment.
- Strong experience delivering business change and operational transformation initiatives.
- Demonstrable experience managing RAID logs, governance processes, and stakeholder reporting.
- Strong understanding of project delivery methodologies including Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid approaches.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at all levels of the organisation.
- Experience working with PMO frameworks, project controls, and reporting standards.
- Strong commercial awareness with experience managing budgets, forecasts, and project financials.