IT Project Manager

As a Project Manager (Senior Consultant), you will be working on:

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of complex digital products or ICT initiatives, aligning user needs, business outcomes, delivery priorities, technical constraints and operational readiness.

• Lead project governance across predictive, agile or hybrid delivery models, including sprint and release governance, critical-path management, key dependencies and timely management decisions.

• Establish and maintain integrated project plans, consolidated RAID and dependency views, recovery actions and outcome measures, and intervene where delivery performance is at risk.

• Provide release assurance for major implementations by overseeing system, user and security testing, defect-risk decisions, cutover readiness, operational handover and post-release stabilisation.

• Shape user-adoption and stakeholder-engagement approaches for significant releases and direct the resolution of material product or operational issues with product and engineering leads.

• Lead the management of significant maintenance and service contracts, including performance, service levels, commercial obligations, renewal or extension options, service credits and supplier accountability.

• Advise on procurement and contracting approaches and lead the preparation or review of tender specifications, Approval of Requirements, evaluation recommendations, contract variations and direct contracting justifications.

• Participate in significant vendor negotiations and provide evidence-based recommendations on contract scope, commercial exposure and approval risks.

• Establish forward-looking licence, subscription and technology-lifecycle plans covering renewal, end of support, upgrade sequencing, dependency risk and continuity of support.

• Oversee vulnerability remediation, security patching and follow-up of security findings, and escalate material delays or residual risks to the appropriate governance forum.

• Oversee project and annual budget plann