Senior IT & Change Projects Lead – Hybrid

Operations Senior Project Manager

Reports to: COO

Location: Leicester

Working hours: Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours a week (6/9 months FTC)

We are looking to recruit a Project Manager to join our team based in Leicester (Hybrid working 4 days per week in the office). This role requires occasional travel to our Nottingham offices.

Responsibilities

• Lead a portfolio of IT and Business Change projects delivering value-driven technical solutions to business stakeholders.
• Ensure projects are prioritised and delivered against budgets & timelines.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously, maintain utilisation, margin, minimise overruns.
• Drive best practice project delivery from concept through to delivery.
• Lead, motivate and develop allocated and seconded team members to meet performance and behavioural objectives.
• Implement change management including impact assessment, business readiness, issue communication.
• Implement best practices for Project Management and Requirements via Jira or similar and deliver CI/CD using solutions like GitHub/GitLab.
• Manage risks and issues to successful conclusion.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management.
• Manage tender and procurement of contractors and third‑party services from RFP to support and handover to BAU.

Requirements

• Proven track record managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Proven analytical skills with experience of project budgeting and road‑mapping.
• Experience with cloud solutions such as Salesforce, MuleSoft and emerging AI and automation solutions such as Power Automate.
• Experience in utility supplier environments (ideally energy) delivering projects such as Business Apps, IT Infrastructure, IT Transformation, Data Migrations, IT Support Services.
• Strong stakeholder management skills at all levels of the organisation.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in managing cross‑functional projects in large organisations.
• Familiarity with Jira or similar project tools.

Strategic Duties

• Find ways of improving efficiency of projects (scoping, delivery).
• Senior Stakeholder Management.

Key Skills

• Organised – excellent organisational skills including attention to detail and multitasking.
• Problem Solver – independent thinking and problem‑solving.
• Motivated – self‑motivated, proactive and results driven.
• Focused – focus on results and delivery.

Benefits

• 24 days annual leave + bank holidays.
• Holiday buy – up to 5 additional days.
• Day off on your birthday.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Annual salary review.
• Learning and development opportunities.
• Enhanced paternity, maternity and adoption policies.
• Yü made a difference Awards.
• Travel Loan Scheme (Nottingham location only).
• 3 days additional annual leave if you get married/civil partnership etc.
• Appointment allowance.
• Long service recognition.
• Refer a friend payment.
• Company sick pay (subject to length of service).
• New modern facilities.
• Death in service and critical illness cover.
• Plus, many more.

Equal Opportunity

This position does not fulfil the UK Visas & Immigration sponsorship criteria for Skilled Worker, therefore we can only accept applications from candidates who already have an indefinite right to work in the UK.

If you need any reasonable adjustments to help you apply for a role, please let us know and we will see what we can do.

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