Divestment Project Manager

Summary: The Divestment Project Manager will oversee the plans and activities for a complex European divestment project, ensuring effective project management of a specific workstream. This role involves maintaining accurate documentation, hosting team meetings, and tracking budgets and deliverables. The successful candidate will collaborate with stakeholders to identify issues and drive the project towards successful completion. This position is hybrid and located in either Lancashire or Greater Manchester.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure clear, complete, and accurate documentation covering all relevant deliveries defined in the project scope and support the team with on-time completion of deliverables and governance.
• Host workstream team meetings; support Steer. Cos.; own the workstream RAID log and create associated workstream plans (including test plans, cutover plans etc. where relevant).
• Track workstream budget, resourcing, deliverables, and all assigned activities.

Key Skills:

• Several years' experience of project management alongside specific exposure to divestment or mergers and acquisitions.
• Strong motivation skills to lead the project workstream through the end-to-end delivery of the divestment.
• Able to work collaboratively, drawing in internal and external stakeholders swiftly to identify problems and potential solutions.
• Strategic thinking skills to identify and understand risks, issues, and opportunities that enable the wider project to achieve their desired outcomes.
• Ability to work collaboratively and build relationships with internal stakeholders, managing their expectations to ensure the business objectives are being achieved.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Greater Manchester

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other

Detailed Description From Employer:

Divestment Project Manager/12 months/Outside IR35/Hybrid (Lancashire OR Greater Manchester)

I'm on the lookout for a Divestment Project Manager who will be responsible for managing the plans and activities for a complex, European divestment activity. You will provide day-to-day project management of the specific workstream within the divestment project structure.

Responsibilities:

• The successful individual will ensure that there is clear, complete and accurate documentation that covers all the relevant deliveries defined in the project scope and will support the team with the on-time completion of deliverables and governance.
• Responsible for hosting workstream team meetings; supporting Steer. Cos.; owning the workstream RAID log and creating associated workstream plans (including test plans, cutover plans etc. where relevant)
• Tracking workstream budget, resourcing, deliverables and all assigned activities.

Role Requirements:

• Several years' experience of project management alongside specific exposure to divestment or mergers and acquisitions.
• Strong motivation skills to lead the project workstream through the end-to-end delivery of the divestment.
• Able to work collaboratively, drawing in internal and external stakeholders swiftly to identify problems and potential solutions.
• Strategic thinking skills to identify and understand risks, issues and opportunities that enable the wider project to achieve their desired outcomes.
• Ability to work collaboratively and build relationships with internal stakeholders, managing their expectations to ensure the business objectives are being achieved.

If you are interested in this role, please apply or email your latest CV to (see below) ASAP!

Divestment Project Manager/12 months/Outside IR35/Hybrid (Lancashire OR Greater Manchester)