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)