Project Manager

Overview

• Run governance like it matters - because it does.
• Design and maintain project governance frameworks that define accountability, escalation paths, and decision-making checkpoints.
• Keep a live project and risk register covering progress, dependencies, financial exposure, and compliance risks.
• Maintain executive dashboards and PMO reports that give leadership real visibility - not a sanitised summary.
• Enforce stage gates and approval processes before any contractual, financial, or delivery commitment is made.
• Run post-implementation reviews that actually produce lessons, not just documentation.
• Keep every part of the business aligned.
• Serve as the central coordination point across Commercial, Product, Engineering, HR, Finance, Legal, and Delivery.
• Lead project initiation, steering, and review meetings - and make sure they produce decisions, not just updates.
• Maintain consistent communication with internal and external stakeholders through dashboards, executive summaries, and progress reports that people actually read.
• Facilitate procurement and vendor coordination, ensuring external partners meet internal standards and regulatory requirements.
• Manage third-party and vendor risk.
• Oversee vendor and third-party onboarding governance - tools, processors, and contractors must meet data protection and regulatory standards before they touch a project.
• Maintain a Third-Party Risk Register tracking compliance obligations, privacy safeguards, and mitigation activities.
• Coordinate with Legal, Compliance, and Data Privacy on risk assessments, incident responses, and breach reporting related to external partners.
• Bring the same rigour to internal programmes.
• Extend the PM framework beyond client projects to internal strategic initiatives - process transformation, system rollouts, product programmes.
• Track progress against annual strategic objectives and KPIs, and report it clearly to leadership.
• Develop and maintain standardised PM tools, templates, and procedures that the wider team can actually use.
• You are responsible for outcomes: projects that land on time, within budget, and without surprises.