Senior Project Manager
Posted Today by Damco Solutions
Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
Knutsford, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Project Manager role in Knutsford, UK, involves leading complex change initiatives by collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to achieve business outcomes. The position demands strong stakeholder management and the ability to translate various requirements into actionable deliverables. The successful candidate will engage in defining technical requirements and maintaining traceability throughout the project lifecycle. This role is suited for someone with proven experience in the financial services industry and a strong technical focus.
Key Responsibilities:
- Engage and manage stakeholders across business, technology, and delivery teams
- Elicit, analyse, and document functional and non-functional requirements with a strong technical focus
- Define data, integration, environment, security, and performance requirements
- Shape target-state and end-to-end process flows in collaboration with stakeholders
- Challenge requirements, identify inefficiencies, and propose improvements to drive business value
- Translate business, regulatory, and operational needs into clear technical requirements
- Maintain end-to-end requirements traceability through the delivery lifecycle
- Support delivery teams through clarification, refinement, and impact analysis
Key Skills:
- Proven experience as a Project Manager in complex environments in Financial services industry
- Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills
- Experience working with data, systems integrations, and technical architectures
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Strong documentation skills (user stories, requirements, traceability)
- Experience working in regulated or enterprise-scale environments
- Familiarity with Agile and hybrid delivery methodologies
- Experience working closely with architects or engineering teams (nice to have)
- Knowledge of APIs, data models, and system integrations (nice to have)
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Knutsford
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Job Title: Project Manager
Job Location: Knutsford, UK
Job Type: Contract [Inside Ir35]
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to support complex change initiatives, working closely with cross-functional stakeholders to shape target-state solutions and deliver end-to-end business outcomes. The role requires strong stakeholder management, critical thinking, and the ability to translate business, regulatory, and operational requirements into clear, technically actionable deliverables.
Key Responsibilities
- Engage and manage stakeholders across business, technology, and delivery teams
- Elicit, analyse, and document functional and non-functional requirements with a strong technical focus
- Define data, integration, environment, security, and performance requirements
- Shape target-state and end-to-end process flows in collaboration with stakeholders
- Challenge requirements, identify inefficiencies, and propose improvements to drive business value
- Translate business, regulatory, and operational needs into clear technical requirements
- Maintain end-to-end requirements traceability through the delivery lifecycle
- Support delivery teams through clarification, refinement, and impact analysis
Required Skills & Experience
- Proven experience as a Project Manager in complex environments in Financial services industry
- Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills
- Experience working with data, systems integrations, and technical architectures
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Strong documentation skills (user stories, requirements, traceability)
- Experience working in regulated or enterprise-scale environments
- Familiarity with Agile and hybrid delivery methodologies
Nice to Have
- Experience working closely with architects or engineering teams
- Knowledge of APIs, data models, and system integrations
Working Model
Hybrid working model – onsite presence required in Knutsford 2–3 days onsite expected (flexibility based on delivery needs)