Location
London (Fully remote within the UK with optional office access). Candidates based in the US Eastern Time Zone will also be considered.

Hours
Full Time - Fixed Term Contract for 18 months

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
The Senior Project Manager will lead the execution of a complex, enterprise-wide transformation program, translating strategic direction into a clear and controlled delivery plan. This hands-on leadership role requires selecting and applying the right project management methodologies, establishing effective governance, and driving disciplined delivery across multiple workstreams and senior stakeholders. You will ensure that skills, job profile, governance, and technology workstreams come together through a single integrated plan, with primary accountability for project structure, pace, dependencies, and execution.

Key responsibilities include mobilizing the program and establishing delivery approach, governance structure, decision rights, forums, cadence, and controls; building and maintaining the integrated plan covering milestones, resources, dependencies, critical path, and deliverables; applying fit-for-purpose project management methodologies and tools tailored to the program’s scale and complexity; driving day-to-day execution across workstreams, clarifying ownership, holding teams accountable, and removing delivery barriers; owning RAID, change control, issue resolution, dependency management, and escalation with clear recommendations and follow-through; providing concise, decision-oriented reporting for the Project Lead, SteerCo, and senior stakeholders; managing interdependencies between Career Framework, job profiles, skills architecture, governance, and technology solutions to deliver a connected enterprise capability; coordinating internal teams, subject matter experts, technology partners, and external advisers; and partnering with the HR IT project manager on HR technology integration timelines and plans including design, build, testing, data migration, cutover, go-live, and transition into support.

Key deliverables include program mobilization and fit-for-purpose delivery methodology; governance model, decision rights, forums, and reporting cadence; integrated program plan, roadmap, milestones, resources, and dependencies; integrated roadmap connecting Career Framework outputs, skills and job profile development, technology activation, pilots, governance, and scale-up; RAID, change control, decision, and action tracking; executive reporting, decision papers, and delivery assurance; phased implementation and transition plan; and HR technology integration roadmap and detailed timeline covering build, testing, migration, cutover, go-live, and stabilization.

Experience
- Extensive experience leading large, global, complex, cross-functional transformation programs from mobilization through implementation.
- Proven success designing and establishing program governance, including decision rights, SteerCo structures, delivery forums, controls, and reporting.
- Strong command of project management methodologies, with the judgment to select and tailor waterfall, agile, or hybrid approaches.
- Demonstrated ownership of integrated planning, critical path, resources, budgets, RAID, dependencies, change control, and delivery assurance.
- Experience delivering across global, matrixed organizations; HR transformation experience is helpful but not essential.
- Experience planning and delivering complex technology integrations, including testing, data migration, cutover, go-live, and post-launch stabilization.

About you
- Ability to create pace, structure, and accountability in ambiguous environments while operating credibly with senior stakeholders.
- Strong leadership and communication skills to coordinate multiple teams and stakeholders effectively.

Qualifications
- Relevant project or program management certification is preferred.