Data Platform Project Manager | Energy Trading organisation | London | Contract Opportunity | Hybrid Working

Company Description

Ink Search Ltd is a boutique recruitment agency specializing in contract and permanent placements for technologists and digital innovators across the EMEA commodities and natural resources sector.

The organization partners with leading firms in Oil, Gas, Power, LNG, Metals, and Agriculture, offering candidates access to complex and forward-thinking work environments.

With over 15 years of focused experience and deep networks across the UK, Europe, Switzerland, and Singapore, Ink Search is known for discreetly representing reputable brands and highly skilled professionals.

The agency provides high-value recruitment services for mid-senior specialists in Technology, Data, Digital Innovation, and AI/ML, and maintains a client retention rate above 99%.

Ink Search actively supports workplace diversity and donates 1% of its annual gross margin to charitable causes.

The Opportunity

As Data Platform Project Manager, you will oversee all aspects of platform delivery across multiple suppliers, consultancies and internal stakeholders.

Acting as an independent and objective leader, you'll coordinate delivery teams, manage governance and ensure the programme is delivered on time, within budget and to the required quality standards.

This role is focused on delivery excellence rather than technical design or architecture.

The successful candidate will be an experienced programme or project leader with exceptional stakeholder management skills and the ability to drive decisions and outcomes across complex organisations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead planning, scheduling and delivery governance across multiple workstreams.
• Own RAID management, risks, dependencies and change control processes.
• Manage resource planning, capacity tracking and delivery oversight.
• Drive decision-making and stakeholder alignment across diverse teams and suppliers.
• Monitor budgets, forecasts, actual spend and financial reporting.
• Oversee commercial administration, including contracts, invoices and supplier engagement.
• Implement and manage RASCI frameworks and governance structures.
• Deliver accurate and transparent project reporting, ensuring clear visibility of programme status.
• Coordinate communication, training and organisational change activities.
• Support steering committees and senior stakeholder forums.

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience delivering large-scale data platform or data transformation programmes.
• Strong background managing multiple vendors and delivery partners simultaneously.
• Excellent project controls, governance, financial management and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience operating in matrix organisations where influence and consensus-building are critical.
• Understanding of data platforms, data products, lineage, governance and data quality concepts.
• Ability to manage complex programmes with multiple parallel workstreams and competing priorities.
• Strong commercial awareness and negotiation skills.
• Current experience working within Commodity trading and/or Investment Banking is paramount.

Why Apply?

• Join a high-profile transformation programme at the ground-floor stage.
• Significant exposure to senior business and technology stakeholders.
• Opportunity to shape delivery standards and governance from day one.
• Work within a fast-paced, international environment tackling large-scale data challenges.
• Hybrid London-based role with occasional European travel.

If you're an experienced Project Manager with a track record of delivering complex data initiatives and enjoy leading large-scale transformation programmes, we'd love to hear from you.