Project Manager
Posted 1 day ago by Loop Recruitment
£65 Per hour
Inside
Remote
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Project Manager role focuses on leading a high-profile operational change programme within a leading business. The position requires an experienced individual to drive change across operational teams, ensuring efficient and sustainable implementation of new processes and systems. This hands-on role demands a delivery-focused approach in a complex, high-volume environment. Occasional travel to Manchester is expected, with a contract length of six months.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead end-to-end delivery of operational change programmes and workstreams
- Manage RAID logs, governance, status reporting and programme tracking
- Coordinate cross-functional delivery across Operations, Product and IT/Engineering
- Drive operational readiness: cutover planning, training, runbooks, and post-live support
- Support sprint planning, release coordination and rollout sequencing
- Define and embed scalable operational processes and delivery frameworks
- Engage senior stakeholders, manage expectations and drive decisions to resolution
- Track benefits and highlight measurable operational improvements
Key Skills:
- Proven Project Management experience delivering operational change
- Strong track record in operational readiness, process redesign or system-to-process integration
- Excellent stakeholder management, planning and reporting skills
- Comfortable working with Product, Agile/Scrum teams and technical delivery leads
- Delivery-focused, proactive, detail-oriented and able to manage multiple concurrent priorities
Salary (Rate): £65.00/hr
City: Manchester
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: Other
Project Manager — Change & Operations | Contract | Remote
Location : Remote 1st (occasional travel to Manchester — Ideally once a week)
Day Rate : ~£500/day (inside IR35 - Expenses covered)
Length : 6 months
Sector : Operations | Change
Overview
We’re partnering with a leading business delivering a high-profile operational change programme. They need an experienced Project Manager to drive change across operational teams, ensuring new processes, systems and ways of working are embedded efficiently and sustainably.
The role:
You’ll lead delivery of operational change initiatives, working closely with Ops, Product and Technology to translate requirements into operational readiness and measurable business outcomes. This is a hands-on role for a delivery-focused PM comfortable operating at pace in a complex, high-volume environment.
Key responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end delivery of operational change programmes and workstreams
- Manage RAID logs, governance, status reporting and programme tracking
- Coordinate cross-functional delivery across Operations, Product and IT/Engineering
- Drive operational readiness: cutover planning, training, runbooks, and post-live support
- Support sprint planning, release coordination and rollout sequencing
- Define and embed scalable operational processes and delivery frameworks
- Engage senior stakeholders, manage expectations and drive decisions to resolution
- Track benefits and highlight measurable operational improvements
What we’re looking for
Proven Project Management experience delivering operational change
Strong track record in operational readiness, process redesign or system-to-process integration
Excellent stakeholder management, planning and reporting skills
Comfortable working with Product, Agile/Scrum teams and technical delivery leads
Delivery-focused, proactive, detail-oriented and able to manage multiple concurrent priorities
Why apply
This is a visible, high-impact role where you’ll shape operational change across the business. If you enjoy pragmatic delivery, driving readiness and embedding lasting process improvements, we’d love to hear from you.
To apply
If you’re open to contract opportunities and have relevant change & operations experience, reach out for more info.