Senior Project Manager - London or Manchester

FDM Group Ltd.; London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology consultancy seeks a Senior Project Manager for a 6-month hybrid role in London or Manchester. The successful candidate will have at least 8 years of complex IT project experience, managing governance and stakeholder engagement, while driving project success within a global environment. This role offers opportunities for career coaching and assignments with global companies.

Benefits

Career coaching and mentoring

Access to upskilling opportunities

Annual leave

Workplace pension

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years’ experience delivering complex IT projects.
• Experience in governance cadence like RAID and steering packs.
• Ability to drive project momentum and manage issues.

Responsibilities

• Lead project setup and ensure it remains ahead of the rollout plan.
• Collaborate with internal teams and ensure alignment.
• Manage risks and scope changes across the project lifecycle.

Skills

Strong project leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Governance frameworks

Organisational skills

Ability to operate in high-pressure environments

Education

AgilePM, SAFe, or Scrum certification

PRINCE2 Practitioner or PMP

Job description

Overview

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Senior Project Manager to work for our client within the technology sector. This is initially a 6-month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role based in Heston/London Heathrow or Manchester Airport.

Our client is seeking a strong project leader who brings structure and clarity, owns project governance, drives cross-functional delivery, and ensures all teams are moving forward in sync. You must be able to hit the ground running, implementing effective control mechanisms, and operating proactively across global and local stakeholders. You’ll be supported by a Technical Delivery Manager overseeing technical aspects such as fixes, releases, and cutovers. This role is critical to the success of global transformation programmes. The ideal candidate will be outcome driven, collaborative with focus on visibility.

Responsibilities

• Lead end to end project setup from planning to reporting while setting up clear meeting cadences at all levels such as local, global, and executive
• Establish and maintain structured governance models and rhythms: project plans, RAID logs, project status updates, and decision logs
• Lead project meetings and governance forums with clear agendas and action tracking while coordinating progress across multiple workstreams and resolving blockers
• Collaborate closely with internal business and IT teams, vendors, and external partners to ensure alignment and delivery
• Lead with urgency, ensuring the project remains ahead of the game and aligned to the rollout plan while guaranteeing project plans include critical path, dependencies, milestones, and handoffs
• Manage risks, issues, and scope changes while ensuring stakeholders and project team members have visibility of milestones, upcoming activities, and next steps
• Maintain change control discipline and manage stakeholder engagement across the full lifecycle
• Partner with the Technical Delivery Manager to ensure coordination on releases, testing, and go-live planning while retaining ownership of overall programme outcomes
• Support transition to BAU by coordinating with change management, service design, and training leads, while facilitating workshops to align scope, outcomes, and actions across SMEs, vendors, and technical teams

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years’ experience delivering complex, fast paced and global IT projects from setup to early support
• Strong grasp of structured project management, governance frameworks, and project artefacts with expertise in delivering reports, dashboards, and status updates to senior audiences
• Hands-on experience establishing and driving governance cadence such as RAID, steering packs and meeting structures
• Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills across multiple workstreams
• Confident communicator with excellent stakeholder engagement skills, able to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous, high-pressure environments with evolving requirements
• Ability to drive momentum, create clarity, and hold workstreams accountable for delivery with exposure in navigating federated delivery models and matrixed organisations
• Strong familiarity with change control, testing coordination, release planning, and post-go-live support planning
• AgilePM, SAFe, or Scrum certification and PRINCE2 Practitioner, PMP or equivalent is a plus
• Experience in ERP, manufacturing, catering, logistics, or food safety programmes

Benefits

• Career coaching, mentoring and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career
• Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad
• Opportunity to re-skill and up-skill into new areas, develop non-linear career paths and build a skillset within your field
• Annual leave, work-place pension

About FDM

We are a business and technology consultancy and one of the UK's leading employers, recruiting the brightest talent to become the innovators of tomorrow. We have centres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 2,500 Consultants. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer and is listed on the FTSE4Good Index.

Diversity and Inclusion

FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.