Project Manager - Leap Transformation Project
Posted 5 days ago by Square One Resources
£819 Per day
Inside
Remote
England, UK
Summary: The Project Manager for the Leap Transformation Project will oversee a complex, multi-disciplinary project while covering a maternity leave. This role involves collaborating with senior stakeholders to deliver project outcomes and managing schedules, risks, and communication across various geographies. The position is remote with occasional client site visits in central London. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in delivering large transformational projects within a global matrix organization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensuring Leap Project delivers its key business outcomes and hold team members to account
- Facilitating effective communication among project teams, stakeholders, and senior leadership, ensuring transparency and alignment
- Collaborating with stakeholders across our organisation to execute deliverables, manage delivery road-maps, establish project schedules, and resolve issues
- Aligning project deliverables and tasks to vision/strategy
- Maintaining mechanisms for the definition and tracking of all program activities, including budget, risks, benefits and dependencies
- Developing excellent working relationships with all stakeholders
- Project reporting, risk and dependency management
- Providing project governance and reporting to ensure standards are followed
- Identifying and understanding internal and external dependencies to ensure deliverables are executed in a sequence that achieves successful business outcomes
- Contributing to best practices, improving our methodology and quality of delivery across our projects
- Manage multiple workstreams/teams to achieve project goals
Key Skills:
- Experience and skills in delivering large and complex transformational projects in a cross-functional, global Matrix organisation with multiple dependencies
- Complex problem-solving experience and assessing the impact of change on the critical path
- Demonstrate experience applying and coaching different project management methodologies (Agile/Scrum, Waterfall, Scaled Agile)
- Consultative and collaborative approach to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Excellent senior stakeholder management skills and leadership style
- Strong organisational skills, including project planning and time management
- Natural communicator, with an ability to engage and influence stakeholders and present technical content to a range of audiences
- Able to create, understand, and maintain a high-level road-map and align and manage project deliverables and tasks for successful delivery
- Enjoy collaborating with teams to design a strategy to solve problems and implement solutions
- Experience managing risk and issues in delivery and creating proactive mitigation plans, especially in a technical environment
- Experience in managing and monitoring project budgets and forecasts
Salary (Rate): £819 per day
City: London
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: Project Management
Job Title: Project Manager - Leap Transformation Project
Location: Remote UK - Client site working once a month in central London
Salary/Rate: Up to £819 per day inside IR35
Start Date: July 2025
Job Type: Contract 12 months
Company Introduction
You'll be joining a team of Project, Delivery and Programme Managers who work across our organisation to provide strategic innovation and transformation change for our analytical and digital tools.
They collaborate globally to work cross-functionally to ensure flawless and robust enhancements and refinements. We deliver a variety of successful technology projects that create value and provide inspired solutions for our customers and business.
You will take ownership of the delivery of the Leap Transformation Project, covering a maternity leave, which is a complex, multi-disciplinary, strategic project for our client.
You will be working with senior stakeholders to deliver Phase V of the project to ensure outcomes and goals are achieved. You will be responsible for managing project schedules, identifying risks, and communicating clearly with stakeholders across multiple geographies.
This is an ideal role for an experienced project manager with strong skills in delivery and experience in client onboarding projects.
Required Skills/Experience
* Experience and skills in delivering large and complex transformational projects in a cross-functional, global Matrix organisation with multiple dependencies
* Complex problem-solving experience and assessing the impact of change on the critical path.
* Demonstrate experience applying and coaching different project management methodologies (Agile/Scrum, Waterfall, Scaled Agile.)
* Consultative and collaborative approach to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders. Excellent senior stakeholder management skills and leadership style
* Have strong organisational skills, including project planning, time management
* Be a natural communicator, with an ability to engage and influence stakeholders and present technical content to a range of audiences
* Be able to create, understand, and maintain a high-level road-map and align and manage project deliverables and tasks for successful delivery
* Enjoy collaborating with teams to design a strategy to solve problems and implement solutions
* Have experience managing risk and issues in delivery and creating proactive mitigation plans, especially in a technical environment
* Have experience in managing and monitoring project budgets and forecasts
Job Responsibilities/Objectives
* Ensuring Leap Project delivers its key business outcomes and hold team members to account
* Facilitating effective communication among project teams, stakeholders, and senior leadership, ensuring transparency and alignment
* Collaborating with stakeholders across our organisation to execute deliverables, manage delivery road-maps, establish project schedules, and resolve issues
* Aligning project deliverables and tasks to vision/strategy
* Maintaining mechanisms for the definition and tracking of all program activities, including budget, risks, benefits and dependencies
* Developing excellent working relationships with all stakeholders
* Project reporting, risk and dependency management
* Providing project governance and reporting to ensure standards are followed
* Identifying and understanding internal and external dependencies to ensure deliverables are executed in a sequence that achieves successful business outcomes
* Contributing to best practices, improving our methodology and quality of delivery across our projects
* Manage multiple workstreams/teams to achieve project goals
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.
Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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