Quick Overview
Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Temporary/Casual
Work mode
On Site
Location
Deritend, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Posted
Yesterday
Strategic Planning
Job Description
Sparta Global are hiring a number of Senior Project Managers to provide leadership across complex transformation projects or multiple interconnected workstreams.
This will be a 12 Month FTC, before a potential conversion to a permanent role, and will require 2 days per week on-site near Birmingham.
The role will be responsible for driving successful delivery, maintaining strong governance and ensuring projects remain aligned to strategic objectives and intended business outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead complex projects or multiple workstreams from mobilisation through to successful delivery.
- Provide clear delivery leadership across cross-functional teams, suppliers and stakeholders.
- Establish and maintain effective programme and project governance, ensuring appropriate controls, reporting and decision-making processes are in place.
- Develop and oversee integrated delivery plans, milestones, dependencies and critical paths.
- Manage significant risks, issues and dependencies, escalating where necessary and driving actions through to resolution.
- Own financial management across assigned projects, including budgets, forecasts, cost control and reporting.
- Work with stakeholders to define, track and realise expected project benefits and business outcomes.
- Engage confidently with senior and executive stakeholders, providing clear reporting on progress, risks, decisions and priorities.
- Ensure delivery remains aligned with wider organisational strategy and transformation objectives.
- Provide direction, challenge and support to project teams to maintain delivery momentum and quality.
- Support strategic planning and contribute to wider programme-level decision making.
Experience & Skills
- Significant experience delivering complex technology, digital or business transformation initiatives.
- Strong programme governance and project control experience.
- Proven experience managing multiple workstreams, dependencies and competing priorities.
- Strong benefits management and benefits realisation experience.
- Excellent executive and senior stakeholder engagement skills.
- Strong financial management experience, including budgets, forecasting and cost control.
- Demonstrable delivery leadership across complex, cross-functional environments.
- Strong strategic planning and decision-making capability.
- Excellent communication, organisation and problem-solving skills.
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