IT Delivery Manager/ Project Manager (Junior)

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Delivery / Project Manager to support a complex IT/data programme. The role will focus on removing delivery blockers, coordinating business and supplier teams, driving accountability, and ensuring projects progress effectively in a resource-constrained and sometimes ambiguous environment.

Key Responsibilities

Proactively identify and remove blockers relating to data, ownership, decisions and business inputs.
Work with internal business teams to prioritise requirements and capture business knowledge.
Facilitate workshops and help establish clear, repeatable processes.
Manage and coordinate third-party suppliers, ensuring agreed milestones, quality and deliverables are achieved.
Maintain an integrated view of the delivery plan, dependencies, risks, issues and finances, using Microsoft Project.
Ensure project inputs have clear ownership and outputs are defined, measurable and testable.
Provide clear, outcome-focused reporting to stakeholders, steering groups and boards.
Drive timely decision-making and ensure blockers are visible and actively managed.Essential Experience

Experience delivering or supporting complex, cross-business IT/data programmes.
Strong track record of unblocking delivery in resource-constrained environments.
Experience managing and working closely with third-party delivery partners/suppliers.
Strong business change and process-definition experience.
Strong financial/budget management skills.
Comfortable working with ambiguity, incomplete requirements and evolving scope.
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

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Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed