Job Title: Project Manager
Located in Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London or Manchester with a hybrid working model.
Key Responsibilities
- Managing and developing a team of 4 people
- Senior administrative overview of all commercial projects, managing timelines, budgets, 3rd party contracts and their costs, and overseeing the recruitment team in the field
- Deliver project outcomes to agreed scope, time, cost and quality
- Ensure all projects follow a clear plan, have measurable outcomes and deliver defined commercial or operational value
- Maintain rigorous governance, risk and dependency control
- Run disciplined governance cycles, identify risks and dependencies early, ensure actions are owned and resolved quickly and raise issues only when required
- Drive cross-functional alignment and unblock delivery teams
- Create clarity across functions, ensure teams understand their role and deliverables and remove blockers to maintain delivery pace
- Improve project delivery performance across the portfolio
- Apply repeatable best practice, use data to measure performance and feed learnings into future delivery. Promote collaboration and shared standards
- Manage supplier and partner performance
- Ensure external partners deliver to contractual expectations, track performance, control costs and drive accountability
- Ensure outcomes are embedded and benefits realised
- Confirm that handover, adoption, training, process changes and performance measures are in place so that project outcomes are sustained
Requirements
Skills:
- Takes full responsibility for the definition, documentation and successful completion of complex projects
- Plans and implements complex and substantial risk management activities within a specific function, technical area, project or programme
- Acts as a single point of contact by developing, maintaining and working to stakeholder engagement strategies and plans. Provides informed feedback to assess and promote understanding
- Provides general advice and guidance on financial planning, budgeting and accounting using recognised practices and standards
- Performs benchmarking and uses supplier performance data to ensure performance is adequately monitored and reviewed, and leverages suppliers' expertise to inform development roadmaps
- Tailors processes to meet specific needs while ensuring they align with established standards and are informed by evaluations of methods and tools
- Manages reviews of the benefits and value of methods and tools, identifying and recommending improvements that support broader organisational goals
Experience:
- Delivery of complex cross‑functional projects in a matrix environment
- Experience in commercially pressured or fast‑moving settings
- Experience in portfolio or multi‑brand organisations
Being More Curious
- Use data and insight to improve project decisions
- Ask direct questions to clarify assumptions, risks and dependencies
Experiment with Purpose
- Test solutions early, use feedback loops and pivot when evidence requires it
- Encourage teams to try new approaches that improve delivery performance
Owning the Outcomes- Hold clear accountability for delivery results
- Escalate early with options and a recommended action
Being More Collaborative
- Build transparent communication across functions with clear responsibilities
- Share tools, learning and best practice across the portfolio
Closing date for applications
8th May 2026
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