This client are a leader in the Information Services industry

Senior Technical Transformation Project Manager – TSSI

Reports to: Programme Director

Direct Reports: n/a

Rate: Up to £623 per day via Umbrella

Contract: 1st September 2025 - 31st March 2026

Location: London UK, hybrid working pattern tbc

Purpose of Role:

To join a multi-year Transformation Programme which spans the whole of the Global Business, to project manage key delivery workstream/s.

Significant senior stakeholder exposure and management – experience working with c-suite stakeholders will be essential

Main Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

Project Management:

· Delivery of projects & workstreams according to agreed time / budget / scope / quality / change control criteria.

· Defining, sourcing and managing the necessary resources to complete these workstreams and sub-projects, making timely changes where necessary to achieve objectives.

· Ensuring the development of accurate plans and budgets, finding improvements to efficiency and effectiveness in the use of resources, reporting variances to senior management where there is likely to be a significant impact on agreed delivery parameters.

· Effectively controlling the issues, risk, dependencies and changes in scope associated with large, complex projects, ensuring timely intervention and communication to stakeholders.

· Conducting regular reviews of outcomes, both internally with delivery team and with clients / senior stakeholders during and after the delivery has been completed

Operational

· Establish project and workstream assurance as a formal discipline

· Proactively identify issues through the use of standard assurance techniques; audits, plan reviews, etc. Provide suggested remedial plans as appropriate

· Ensure there is sufficient capability and capacity within the function to conduct assurance reviews

· Provide regular reports on project and workstream performance and overall portfolio health

· Provide confidence that projects and workstream will deliver to time, cost and quality

· Provide ongoing project assurance for project / workstream

Customer

· Champion a culture that achieves the business goals, delights customers and keeps consumer advocacy at the heart of everything that the company does.

· Ensure that good client / consumer outcomes are at the centre of decision making.

· Promote great service and seek to exceed client / consumer expectations.

People Management (No Direct Reports)

· Contribute to people management process through assignment management of colleagues allocated to the project

· Drive Elevate Performance; ensuring that all project team members have stretching project objectives to embed a high performance culture.

· Acts as a role model, displaying a positive enthusiastic, can-do approach in the face of adversity

Regulatory, Governance and Control

· Adhere to all regulatory requirements within area of responsibility and escalate issues quickly.

· Pro-actively identify risks and take steps to mitigate these.

· Ensures team members understand the importance of adhering to their regulatory obligations and responsibility for implementation of company policies and procedures.

· Ensure team members understand the operating model and the functional and individual responsibilities

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

· Strong understanding and application of Project Management competencies including stakeholder management, contracts, scope, schedule, costs, quality, HR, communications, risk, procurement, and integration

· Experience managing technical projects and ability to collaborate with technical SME’s and delivery teams

· Strong understanding and application of change management competencies

· Effective leadership, coordination, motivation, negotiation and dispute resolution skills

· Strong ability to manage relationships whilst maintaining trusted relationship with team and peers

· Strong understanding of business requirements and technical limitations as determined by the organization’s systems and processes

· Ability to apply analytical skills and conceptual thinking to both short term and long-term operations and systems planning over a wide range of technologies

· Financial literacy to forecast and manage workstream, project and departmental budgets, costs and revenue

· Ability to influence and build productive relationships with key stakeholders (both internal and external)

· Ability to advocate and instill cultural improvement, discipline and communications

· Ability to encourage innovation

· Ability to achieve improvements in delivery quality, staff motivation and role flexibility and can operate equally well at strategic or operational levels

· Proven ability defining and executing on the Project's purpose and direction in terms of vision, mission, values and objectives

· Project governance against improved project delivery lifecycle processes and escalated risk mitigation and issue resolution

· Ability to identify and manage resource requirements

· Excellent knowledge of project management methodology and tools, including software

Desirable (not essential):

· Experience of working on projects delivering technical modular platforms

Qualifications

· Educated to degree-level or equivalent

· Continued professional development at a high level

The closing date for application is 25/07 COB so apply now!