Aizen Recruitment is hiring a Senior Project Manager on behalf of a confidential client to lead the end-to-end delivery of high-impact IT initiatives. You will own planning, execution, governance, risk, and stakeholder management across a small portfolio of concurrent projects, ensuring delivery on time, within scope, and on budget.
Location: Remote (UK/EU time zones)
Contract: Temporary, with potential renewal (full-time)
Engagement: Via Limited Company only
Compensation: £60,000–£65,000 per annum (pro-rated to contract length), DOE
Start: ASAP
What You’ll Do
Own the full lifecycle (initiation → planning → execution → closure) for one or more IT projects.
Plan & govern: Create integrated plans (scope, schedule, cost, resources), RAID logs, dependency maps, and change-control processes.
Budget & forecasting: Build bottoms-up budgets, track burn vs. forecast, and manage variance with corrective actions.
Delivery management: Run stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, and retros; coordinate cross-functional squads (engineering, design, data, QA, security, operations).
Progress & reporting: Define KPIs/OKRs, maintain dashboards, produce executive status reports, and escalate blockers early.
Risk & issue management: Proactively identify, quantify, mitigate, and own critical risks/issues with clear owners and deadlines.
Stakeholder leadership: Map stakeholders, run steering committees, align priorities, and manage expectations across business and technology.
Quality & readiness: Oversee testing plans (SIT/UAT), cut-over/runbooks, release governance, and post-go-live hypercare.
Vendor management: Coordinate external partners/SIs, manage SoWs, and track deliverables to contract.
Benefits realisation: Define success metrics and ensure projects deliver the intended business outcomes.
30/60/90 Day Success Outcomes
30 days: Project charter, governance cadence, risk register, baseline plan & budget approved; stakeholder map and comms plan in place.
60 days: Execution on track with visible burn-down/burn-up; top risks actively mitigated; first deliverables shipped or UAT complete.
90 days: Key milestones met within agreed tolerances; adoption/change plans executed; post-implementation review and benefits tracking underway.
Required Qualifications & Experience
3+ years in a Senior Project Manager role delivering complex, multi-team initiatives.
Demonstrated delivery in Agile and Waterfall (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, hybrid).
Strong stakeholder management, executive communication, and facilitation skills.
Hands-on with Jira or Asana (and ideally Confluence or equivalent).
Evidence of managing budgets, dependencies, and distributed teams.
Nice to Have
PMP or PRINCE2 certification.
Sector experience in IT or finance (e.g., platforms, cloud, data, security, payments, regulatory).
Familiarity with SDLC/DevOps practices, CI/CD, and modern cloud environments.
Tools & Environment (typical)
Jira, Confluence, Asana, MS Project, Miro, O365/Google Workspace, Slack/Teams; exposure to modern engineering and QA practices.