Project Manager

Overview

Expleo is looking for an experienced Project Manager to lead day-to-day project delivery, coordinating multiple workstreams and stakeholders to ensure successful delivery against agreed timescales, budgets and governance requirements. The role is responsible for driving delivery discipline, maintaining oversight of risks, dependencies and milestones, managing project finances, and ensuring effective governance and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Create, own and maintain detailed delivery plans.
• Ensure alignment across all workstreams and dependencies.
• Coordinate delivery activities across internal teams, external suppliers and senior stakeholders.
• Drive progress against key milestones.
• Establish and maintain effective governance arrangements.
• Prepare programme board papers, reporting packs, decision logs and escalation materials.
• Support delivery governance processes and decision-making forums.
• Monitor risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies and actions.
• Ensure timely escalation and resolution.
• Maintain delivery visibility across all workstreams.
• Track project progress, deliverables, budgets and resource requirements.
• Provide accurate reporting and forecasting.
• Support effective financial oversight and control.
• Facilitate project board meetings, working groups and stakeholder meetings.
• Ensure clear outcomes, accountability and follow-through.
• Build effective working relationships across stakeholders.
• Produce concise and effective reporting for senior leadership.
• Provide accurate status updates and delivery insights.
• Support informed decision-making through regular reporting.
• Ensure delivery remains aligned with agreed project outcomes.
• Work closely with programme leadership and workstream leads to drive pace, coordination and successful delivery.

Qualifications

• A relevant project management qualification is required. Suitable credentials include PRINCE2 Practitioner, PMP, APM PMQ or MAPM. In addition, Agile or Scrum certification is desirable, such as PSM, CSM or SAFe Agilist.

Essential skills

• Proven ability to manage budgets, resource plans, forecasting, financial reporting and variance analysis.
• Strong expertise in:
  • Project planning
  • Governance
  • Reporting
  • Risk management
  • Issue management
  • Dependency management
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills.
• Ability to coach colleagues in project frameworks and delivery practices.

Experience

• Experience driving delivery across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Experience preparing senior governance materials, including programme board papers and management reporting.
• Proven project management experience delivering complex, multi-workstream projects or programmes.
• Experience delivering regulatory change programmes.
• Experience supporting policy, governance or business change initiatives.

Benefits

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges  
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects   
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses  
• Competitive company benefits
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo 

 

• As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
• Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
• Communicating and promoting vacancies
• Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
• Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
• Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”. 

 

We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive

 

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