Project Manager

Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Warwick (Hybrid - 3 days per week in the office, with regular travel required)

Contract Duration: 12 Months

Daily Rate: £500 (Umbrella)

Our client is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead the successful delivery and deployment of a technology-based programme. This role requires a highly organised and proactive individual who can take ownership of project delivery, maintain rigorous governance, and ensure all stakeholders remain aligned to agreed objectives, timelines, and deliverables.

The successful candidate will be responsible for driving the project forward on a day-to-day basis, coordinating multiple workstreams, managing dependencies, and ensuring actions are followed through to completion. This is a hands-on project management position requiring strong planning, reporting, risk management, and stakeholder engagement skills. The Project Manager will act as the central point of coordination between operational teams, contractors, suppliers, technical specialists, and senior leadership, ensuring that everyone remains focused on achieving project milestones and delivery targets.

Key Responsibilities

Take full ownership of project delivery, ensuring milestones, deadlines, and objectives are met.
Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, actions, and dependencies.
Drive project progress through effective coordination of stakeholders and workstreams.
Produce accurate and timely project reporting, including status updates, RAID logs, executive reports, and governance packs.
Monitor project performance against schedule, budget, scope, risks, and agreed deliverables.
Escalate issues and risks appropriately while driving resolution through stakeholders.
Coordinate activities across internal teams, contractors, suppliers, and external partners.
Ensure project documentation is maintained to a high standard and remains audit-ready.
Track and manage project actions, ensuring accountability and delivery across all parties.
Support programme governance and provide clear visibility of progress to senior stakeholders.
Drive continuous focus on delivery, ensuring all project participants remain aligned and engaged.

Skills & Experience Required

Proven track record delivering complex projects within technical, engineering, utilities, infrastructure, operational, or industrial environments.
Strong traditional project management background with experience managing projects from initiation through to completion.
Demonstrable experience producing detailed project plans, project reports, governance documentation, RAID logs, and executive updates.
Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to challenge, influence, and drive actions across multiple teams.
Experience coordinating suppliers, contractors, and third-party delivery partners.
Strong understanding of project governance frameworks and reporting requirements.
Experience managing project risks, issues, dependencies, budgets, and schedules.
Ability to organise and coordinate multiple workstreams while maintaining attention to detail.
Excellent communication, planning, organisation, and problem-solving skills.

Desirable Experience

Experience delivering technology deployment, operational change, infrastructure, or utilities-related projects.
Previous experience working within regulated industries such as utilities, energy, infrastructure, engineering, telecommunications, or transportation.
Knowledge of project controls, programme governance, and PMO methodologies.
Project management qualifications such as PRINCE2 Practitioner, APM PMQ, PMP, or equivalent.
Why Apply?

Lead a high-profile project with significant business visibility and stakeholder engagement.
Take ownership of delivery within a complex and fast-paced environment.
Work closely with operational, technical, supplier, and leadership teams.
Play a key role in ensuring successful project outcomes through strong governance and coordination.

If you are a Project Manager with a talent for stakeholder engagement, coordinating complex workstreams, managing suppliers, and driving successful technology deployments, this is the opportunity you've been waiting for!

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