Senior Project Manager

SHL Group; Thames Ditton; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - GBP 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy firm in Thames Ditton is seeking a Senior Project Manager to oversee strategic programs for large, complex clients. This role involves managing global customer projects, ensuring successful delivery, and fostering strong stakeholder relationships. The ideal candidate possesses significant project management experience, particularly in consultancy or SaaS settings. The company offers an excellent benefits package and promotes a culture of career development and inclusivity. Hybrid working is available, with 3 days in the office.

Benefits

Employee benefits package

Support and coaching for career success

Flexible workplace environment

Qualifications

• Must have experience in project management within a consultancy or SaaS business environment.
• Ability to deliver customer projects on a global scale.
• Excellent stakeholder influencing techniques.

Responsibilities

• Own and oversee strategic programs and projects for large clients.
• Act as the single point of contact for projects.
• Identify risks and implement mitigation strategies.

Skills

Project Management of large scale, customer facing, global initiatives

Experience of project management processes, systems, tools

Influencing skills across broad range of stakeholders

Education

Project/Programme management qualification e.g. PMP, Prince2, LSS or Agile

Tools

Smartsheets

Job description

Job Details: Senior Project Manager - 1 year Fixed Term Contract

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Full details of the job.

Vacancy Name

Vacancy Name Senior Project Manager - 1 year Fixed Term Contract

Requisition No

Requisition No VN4247

Time Type

Time Type Full Time

Location

Location Thames Ditton Office

Additional Location

Country

Country United Kingdom

Job Description

Say yes to a better tomorrow!
SHL, People Science. People Answers.
Are you a project manager, with experience in a consultancy or SaaS business environment, B2B environment? Have you delivered customer projects on a global scale, using your influencing techniques across a broad range of stakeholders, with rapidly changing priorities and timescales? We have a rare opportunity at SHL for a Senior Project Manager within our Global Deployment function, with projects centered around the creation of bespoke content, delivery of training and provision of consulting support to customers. You will be the single point of contact and project lead for regional large sized customer deployment projects, working with our commercial, deployment and wider project teams.
An excellent benefits package is offered in a culture where career development, with ongoing manager guidance, collaboration, flexibility, diversity and inclusivity are all intrinsic to our culture. There is a huge investment in SHL currently so there’s no better time to become a part of something transformational. Hybrid working is available (3 days office based in Thames Ditton)
What you will be doing:

• Own and oversee strategic programs and projects for large, complex clients to ensure successful end-to-end delivery, facilitating account growth and securing renewals.
• Single point of contact for projects, working with our commercial teams and deployment teams to ensure on schedule, in budget and within scope.
• Identify risks and put in place mitigation strategies to deliver assigned goals. Coordinate and communicate cross-team, cross-project and cross-program dependencies and risks
• Ensure delivery issues are resolved and lead on client communication, fostering a culture of customer focused delivery enhancing customer satisfaction
• Facilitate meetings and workshops, obtain customer feedback and act upon the findings
• Maintain effective financial and project progress forecasting, meeting minutes and reports and instigate and manage project closure actions
• Ensure project management software is fully utilised and the quality of the data input is to a high standard
• Provide coaching and mentoring to stakeholders to secure an outcome, produce impactful reports to show project progress and ensure objectives are aligned to the business goals and strategy

What we are looking for from you:

Essential:

• Project Management of large scale, customer facing, global initiatives
• Experience of project management processes, systems, tools
• Influencing skills across broad range of stakeholders

Desirable:

• Project/Programme management qualification e.g. PMP, Prince2, LSS or Agile
• PM in a SaaS business
• Smartsheets

You must hold the relevant right-to-work documentation for this role.

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• When you inspire and transform people’s lives, you will experience the greatest business outcomes possible. SHL’s products insights, experiences, and services can help achieve growth at scale.

What SHL can offer you

• Employee benefits package that takes care of you and your family.
• Support, coaching, and on-the-job development to achieve career success
• A fun and flexible workplace where you’ll be inspired to do your best work (find out more LifeAtSHL)
• The ability to transform workplaces around the world for others.

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