Senior Project Manager
Posted 2 days ago by Gleeson Recruitment Group
£400 Per day
Outside
Hybrid
Birmingham, West Midlands
Summary: Gleeson is seeking an Interim Senior Project Manager to lead strategic growth initiatives within a premier global enterprise. The role involves overseeing complex projects in transport, warehousing, supply chain, and automation, ensuring alignment with business priorities. The position is hybrid and based in the Midlands, offering a competitive day rate. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in managing multiple projects within complex operational environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of mission-critical supply chain initiatives, ensuring alignment to strategic business priorities while maintaining rigorous control over timelines, budgets, and risk exposure.
- Develop and own comprehensive programme roadmaps, defining key milestones and delivering concise, executive-level reporting to senior stakeholders to enable informed decision-making.
- Drive cross-functional alignment across Procurement, Logistics, Production, and Finance, ensuring all initiatives are commercially focused, operationally viable, and fully integrated into wider business objectives.
- Champion continuous improvement by identifying, shaping, and embedding best-in-class processes that enhance operational efficiency, resilience, and value creation.
- Leverage advanced KPI analysis and complex data insights to proactively mitigate risk, optimise performance, and minimise supply chain disruption.
- Own and develop strategic supplier and partner relationships, including performance management, commercial evaluation, and leading negotiations to secure optimal contractual and financial outcomes.
Key Skills:
- Proven track record delivering multiple, concurrent projects within complex supply chain or operational environments.
- Demonstrable experience managing tenders, budgets, and full financial accountability across large-scale initiatives.
- Strong capability navigating complex organisational structures and driving progress across multifaceted programmes.
- Highly developed stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and engage at senior levels both internally and externally.
Salary (Rate): £400/day
City: Birmingham
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: Project Management
Gleeson is proud to partner with a premier global enterprise currently seeking a Interim Senior Project Manager to spearhead strategic growth initiatives.
This pivotal role offers the opportunity to oversee complex, high-value projects spanning transport, warehousing, supply chain, and advanced automation, ensuring the business continues to scale with agility and precision.
Job Title: Interim Senior Project Manager
Work type : Midlands ( Hybrid )
Day Rate : £250 - 400
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of mission-critical supply chain initiatives, ensuring alignment to strategic business priorities while maintaining rigorous control over timelines, budgets, and risk exposure.
- Develop and own comprehensive programme roadmaps, defining key milestones and delivering concise, executive-level reporting to senior stakeholders to enable informed decision-making.
- Drive cross-functional alignment across Procurement, Logistics, Production, and Finance, ensuring all initiatives are commercially focused, operationally viable, and fully integrated into wider business objectives.
- Champion continuous improvement by identifying, shaping, and embedding best-in-class processes that enhance operational efficiency, resilience, and value creation.
- Leverage advanced KPI analysis and complex data insights to proactively mitigate risk, optimise performance, and minimise supply chain disruption.
- Own and develop strategic supplier and partner relationships, including performance management, commercial evaluation, and leading negotiations to secure optimal contractual and financial outcomes.
Ideal Candidate:
- Proven track record delivering multiple, concurrent projects within complex supply chain or operational environments.
- Demonstrable experience managing tenders, budgets, and full financial accountability across large-scale initiatives.
- Strong capability navigating complex organisational structures and driving progress across multifaceted programmes.
- Highly developed stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and engage at senior levels both internally and externally.
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