Project Manager - Core Platform Transformation
Posted 2 weeks ago by Lorien
£380 Per day
Inside
Undetermined
Knutsford, Cheshire, UK
Summary: The Project Manager - Core Platform Transformation role involves managing projects and programmes across Core Platforms, focusing on the delivery of change projects. The position requires defining and owning the direction of these projects to ensure high performance and continuous delivery. The role is based in Knutsford and requires the contractor to be PAYE through an umbrella company. The contract is set to last until December 31, 2025.
Key Responsibilities:
- Create & maintain plan (from Product Owner roadmap) and Kanban management
- Establish & drive delivery disciplines, cadence & standards for the feature team
- Own the issues/blockers status & resolution, and same for identifying/managing risks facing the feature team (may be reliant on support from others to mitigate)
- Own the delivery status report out and accuracy of the facts
- Vendor relationship management - running RFP's and contract management
- Control financial & resource forecasts & actuals to budget
- Overall responsibility for delivering the product to time, cost & quality. Drives the team to ensure velocity is maintained/changes managed in line with expectations
- Ensure wider organisation is engaged & aligned to feature team needs, including timely/pre-emptive governance, approvals, dispensations
Key Skills:
- Effectively provide change management and project management expertise to change projects to which the Project Manager is assigned.
- Experience of Agile delivery methodologies and practical experience of managing sprint-based deliveries
- Possess expertise in change management methods and tools, in particular the Change Management change management method and toolkit.
- Understand the roles, responsibilities and value-add of the client Change Management.
- Influencing/networking - developing internal and external business relationships and using own knowledge, skills and experience to influence others opinions and actions.
- Analysis, creativity and innovation - able to apply practical solutions to business critical problems.
- Understand at a high level the interface between complex business needs and the complex legal and regulatory environment in which the business operates.
- Ability to juggle priorities, multi-task and flawlessly execute at speed.
- Sound commercial judgment and overall understanding of the Financial Services Industry, particularly the business impact of the regulatory environment.
- Understand and comply with the requirements of Strategic Change Execution Board Standard, Group Change Governance framework and Group-mandated Business Change methods, standards and tools
Salary (Rate): £380.00 daily
City: Knutsford
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
CONTRACTOR MUST BE ELIGIBLE FOR BPSS
Role Title:Project Manager - Core Platform Transformation
Location: Knutsford
Duration: 31/12/2025
Pay Rate: £380
MUST BE PAYE THROUGH UMBRELLA
Role Description:
Managing all projects and programmes being delivered across the Core Platforms. To define and own the content and direction of change projects in order to support the high performance continuous delivery of change projects.
Key Accountability
- Create & maintain plan (from Product Owner roadmap) and Kanban management
- Establish & drive delivery disciplines, cadence & standards for the feature team
- Own the issues/blockers status & resolution, and same for identifying/managing risks facing the feature team (may be reliant on support from others to mitigate)
- Own the delivery status report out and accuracy of the facts
- Vendor relationship management - running RFP's and contract management
- Control financial & resource forecasts & actuals to budget
- Overall responsibility for delivering the product to time, cost & quality. Drives the team to ensure velocity is maintained/changes managed in line with expectations
- Ensure wider organisation is engaged & aligned to feature team needs, including timely/pre-emptive governance, approvals, dispensations
Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:
- Effectively provide change management and project management expertise to change projects to which the Project Manager is assigned.
- Experience of Agile delivery methodologies and practical experience of managing sprint-based deliveries
- Possess expertise in change management methods and tools, in particular the Change Management change management method and toolkit.
- Understand the roles, responsibilities and value-add of the client Change Management.
- Influencing/networking - developing internal and external business relationships and using own knowledge, skills and experience to influence others opinions and actions.
- Analysis, creativity and innovation - able to apply practical solutions to business critical problems.
- Understand at a high level the interface between complex business needs and the complex legal and regulatory environment in which the business operates.
- Ability to juggle priorities, multi-task and flawlessly execute at speed.
- Sound commercial judgment and overall understanding of the Financial Services Industry, particularly the business impact of the regulatory environment.
- Understand and comply with the requirements of Strategic Change Execution Board Standard, Group Change Governance framework and Group-mandated Business Change methods, standards and tools
Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.