Project Manager | Fixed Term

Job Summary

Required Qualifications

• •Be seconded to a client site and work onsite three to four days per week
• •Facilitate sprint cadences, including planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, reviews, retrospectives, and other agreed agile ceremonies
• •Support the team to maintain delivery focus, sprint discipline, and clear alignment to agreed sprint goals
• •Coordinate and attend programme cadences, including Scrum of Scrums or equivalent forums, to provide visibility of sprint progress, blockers, risks, and dependencies
• •Manage and escalate dependencies, impediments, and risks that may impact sprint delivery or cross-team outcomes
• •Support backlog management by working with the team and relevant product or delivery stakeholders to ensure work is prioritised, clear, sized, and ready for delivery
• •Produce sprint reporting, including progress updates, sprint health, delivery risks, blockers, and key delivery metrics
• •Track team velocity and use metrics to support forecasting, planning, continuous improvement, and delivery transparency
• •Coach and support the team in agile ways of working, helping to improve collaboration, communication, delivery flow, and team effectiveness
• •Facilitate issue resolution and conflict management within the team, escalating where required
• •Promote a culture of continuous improvement by using retrospectives, feedback loops, and delivery insights to improve team performance over time
• •Demonstrated experience managing medium to large technology, software, digital, integration, infrastructure, ERP, CRM, EDW, or business change projects
• •Strong understanding and practical application of project management disciplines, including scope, time, cost, quality, risk, issues, resources, communications, procurement, and stakeholder management
• •Experience working across agile, staged, waterfall, and hybrid delivery methodologies
• •Proven ability to build and lead collaborative project teams to achieve business and customer outcomes
• •Strong financial management capability, including cost estimation, budget tracking, forecasting, and understanding the relationship between cost, utilisation, revenue, and project performance
• •Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor messages for technical teams, business stakeholders, senior leaders, and customer governance forums
• •Strong stakeholder management, influencing, negotiation, and customer relationship skills
• •Experience facilitating sprint ceremonies, managing backlog health, tracking delivery metrics, and supporting agile team cadence
• •Ability to identify, manage, and escalate risks, issues, dependencies, blockers, and delivery constraints with a solution-focused approach
• •Experience working with third-party vendors, internal delivery teams, customers, and cross-functional programme stakeholders
• •High competency in project and agile delivery tools, such as Microsoft Project, Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or equivalent
• •Strong self-management, organisation, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment

Desired Qualifications

• •Project management certification such as PRINCE2, PMI, PMP, or equivalent
• •Agile certification such as Professional Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Master, SAFe, or equivalent
• •A degree in Business, IT, Engineering, Science, Economics, or a related discipline