Senior Project Manager - Transport
Posted Today by Methods
£500 Per day
Outside
Remote
England, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Senior Project Manager involves leading the planning and delivery of digital workstream activities for a central government department, specifically focusing on transport clients. The position requires managing service design and transition, overseeing delivery management, and ensuring project documentation and performance tracking. The contract is remote with an ASAP start and is classified as outside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead planning and delivery of digital workstream activities
- Manage service design and transition, including acceptance criteria, catalogue definition, and service level/KPI mapping
- Establish and recruit/organise delivery teams or partners, with input from Programme Manager
- Oversee delivery management of service creation and product implementation
- Provide insight on legacy services, validate delivery approach, timescales, RAID, resource, and budget
- Input into options appraisals, risk/issue/cost analysis
- Maintain detailed project documentation, plans, updates, and reports
- Ensure work is delivered to agreed standards, budget, and timescales
- Sequence technology migrations/rollouts
- Track project performance against short- and long-term goals
- Undertake risk management and prepare communications for wider stakeholders
- Deliverables: Approved project plans, updated monthly
- Comprehensive logs of risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies
- Regular reporting to project/programme boards, including RAG status and stakeholder engagement
- Support technical analysis and documentation for systems, data, cloud, security, and integration
- Solution proposals for transition and post-transition states
- Support successful transition of staff and continuity of service
- Support digital delivery setup including cloud infrastructure, system/data analysis, site setup, and knowledge transfer
Key Skills:
- Experience working with transport clients
- Strong project management skills
- Knowledge of service design and transition
- Ability to manage delivery teams and partners
- Experience in risk management and project performance tracking
- Excellent communication skills for stakeholder engagement
- BPSS clearance (minimum); SC clearance may be required
Salary (Rate): £500 daily
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: Project Management
Methods is currently looking for a Senior Project Manager on a contract basis. Ideally we require someone with experience working with transport clients.
Client: Central government department
Day rate: £500 outside IR35
Remote contract ASAP start
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead planning and delivery of digital workstream activities
- Manage service design and transition, including acceptance criteria, catalogue definition, and service level/KPI mapping
- Establish and recruit/organise delivery teams or partners, with input from Programme Manager
- Oversee delivery management of service creation and product implementation
- Provide insight on legacy services, validate delivery approach, timescales, RAID, resource, and budget
- Input into options appraisals, risk/issue/cost analysis
- Maintain detailed project documentation, plans, updates, and reports
- Ensure work is delivered to agreed standards, budget, and timescales
- Sequence technology migrations/rollouts
- Track project performance against short- and long-term goals
- Undertake risk management and prepare communications for wider stakeholders
- Deliverables: Approved project plans, updated monthly
- Comprehensive logs of risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies
- Regular reporting to project/programme boards, including RAG status and stakeholder engagement
- Support technical analysis and documentation for systems, data, cloud, security, and integration
- Solution proposals for transition and post-transition states
- Support successful transition of staff and continuity of service
- Support digital delivery setup including cloud infrastructure, system/data analysis, site setup, and knowledge transfer
Requirements: BPSS clearance (minimum); SC clearance may be required and will be sponsored by client if needed