Project Manager

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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