Project Manager

Project Manager – Up to £46,000 + Bonus + Exceptional Benefits (Civil Service Pension) + Hybrid (Stratford, London) We're looking for a skilled and commercially-minded Project Manager to lead the successful delivery of strategic initiatives, driving projects from concept through to implementation and benefits realisation. This is a fantastic opportunity to manage high-profile programmes, work with senior stakeholders, and influence meaningful organisational change on an international scale. You'll play a key role in ensuring projects deliver measurable business value whilst balancing scope, cost, quality, risk, and stakeholder expectations. What You'll Be Doing • Leading the end-to-end delivery of complex projects and programmes, ensuring alignment with strategic business objectives. • Developing and maintaining realistic, data-driven project plans that adapt to changing priorities, risks, and dependencies. • Managing multi-disciplinary and geographically dispersed teams, both internally and through third-party suppliers and partners. • Driving project governance, reporting, RAID management, and benefits realisation throughout the project lifecycle. • Building strong relationships with senior stakeholders, influencing decisions and ensuring alignment on project outcomes. • Managing budgets, resources, procurement activities, contracts, and supplier relationships to achieve value for money. • Identifying and mitigating project risks while ensuring compliance with organisational and regulatory requirements. • Facilitating project reviews, lessons learned, and continuous improvement activities to strengthen delivery capability. • Communicating project progress, risks, dependencies, and outcomes clearly and confidently to stakeholders at all levels. • Creating an environment where teams are empowered to collaborate effectively and deliver high-quality outcomes. What We're Looking For • Significant experience delivering large, complex projects and programmes within multinational organisations. • Proven ability to manage multi-million-pound budgets, resources, timelines, and competing priorities. • Experience working within matrix environments and leading virtual, geographically dispersed teams. • Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and engage senior leaders and executive-level audiences. • Demonstrable experience managing third-party suppliers, contracts, and external delivery partners. • Strong governance, risk management, compliance, and assurance experience. • Experience using project planning and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Miro, Microsoft Project, Planner, and related platforms. • Excellent communication, presentation, and reporting skills. • Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on delivery execution. Desirable Experience • Delivery of digital, online, technology, or transformation programmes. • Experience negotiating and managing commercial contracts and supplier agreements. • Experience delivering learning, education, assessment, or customer-focused programmes. • Experience operating within highly regulated or governance-focused environments. • Exposure to Agile, Hybrid, and traditional project delivery methodologies. Qualifications • Degree or equivalent professional experience. • Project Management certification such as PRINCE2, PMP, Agile, SAFe, or equivalent. Project Manager – Up to £46,000 + Bonus + Exceptional Benefits (Civil Service Pension) + Hybrid (Stratford, London)